Hillary's 2016 running mate claims that the U.S. "created" slavery

[rogue06]

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va), who is probably most memorable for being completely forgettable, declared during a speech on the Senate floor yesterday that "the United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it." This wasn't some off the cuff remark that he bungled, but was part of a prepared speech almost certainly proof read by his staff.

To absolutely nobody's surprise the MSM is totally ignoring this brazen attempt to rewrite history.


And we almost had this guy as or Vice President.

[Whateverman]

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va), who is probably most memorable for being completely forgettable, declared during a speech on the Senate floor yesterday that "the United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it." This wasn't some off the cuff remark that he bungled, but was part of a prepared speech almost certainly proof read by his staff.

To absolutely nobody's surprise the MSM is totally ignoring this brazen attempt to rewrite history.

Oh brother...

Sound more like hyperbole than historical revisionism. If you want an example of the latter, look no further than the Republican/conservative claim that the Revolutionary War wasn't about slavery...

And we almost had this guy as or Vice President.

Better him than Sarah Palin...

[seanD]

I can't tell if it's just that they don't care about facts when they're pandering, it's just all about the pander and that's all that matters, or they assume the folks they're pandering to -- specifically the social media crowd -- don't know the facts enough to question it. I tend to lean towards the latter.

[Bill the Cat]

Oh brother...

Sound more like hyperbole than historical revisionism. If you want an example of the latter, look no further than the Republican/conservative claim that the Revolutionary War wasn't about slavery...

Revolutionary?

[rogue06]

Oh brother...

Sound more like hyperbole than historical revisionism. If you want an example of the latter, look no further than the Republican/conservative claim that the Revolutionary War wasn't about slavery....

I'd love for you to try to demonstrate that it was.

[Cow Poke]

Revolutionary?

Ya know, one of them thar wars.

(I bet he meant the War of Northern Aggression)

[Darth Ovious]

Same here in the UK. People don't know their history Apparently we need to feel guilty about slavery when not only did we abolished it but afterwards put 40% of our taxes into our navy to police the seas to bring about the end of the slave trade altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron

The Royal Navy established the West Africa Squadron at substantial expense in 1808 after Parliament passed the Slave Trade Act of 1807, an Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. The squadron's task was to suppress the Atlantic slave trade by patrolling the coast of West Africa.[1] With a home base at Portsmouth,[2] it began with two small ships, the 32-gun fifth-rate frigate HMS Solebay and the Cruizer-class brig-sloop HMS Derwent. At the height of its operations, the squadron employed a sixth of the Royal Navy fleet and marines. In 1819 the Royal Navy established a West Coast of Africa Station and the West Africa Squadron became known as the Preventative Squadron.[3] It remained an independent command until 1856 and then again 1866 to 1867.

Between 1808 and 1860 the West Africa Squadron captured 1,600 slave ships and freed 150,000 Africans.[1]

Oh yeah, it's good to be British

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[lilpixieofterror]

Same here in the UK. People don't know their history Apparently we need to feel guilty about slavery when not only did we abolished it but afterwards put 40% of our taxes into our navy to police the seas to bring about the end of the slave trade altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron



Oh yeah, it's good to be British

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Don’t you know, you’re supposed to feel guilty about things your ancestors might have done.

[rogue06]

Ya know, one of them thar wars.

(I bet he meant the War of Northern Aggression)

Even so, he is wrong about it being hyperbole.

Kaine was quite adamant about it repeating how the U.S. created slavery several times and even claiming "It got created by the Virginia general assembly and the legislatures of other states." Now even if he he meant here rather than the world at large (where slavery has been going on from time immemorial) he ignores the fact that the first slaves brought to the U.S. was in 1619^[1] -- some 170 years before there was a United States.








1. Some historians say that there were slaves brought here even earlier but that only serves to reinforce my point.

[Darth Ovious]

Don’t you know, you’re supposed to feel guilty about things your ancestors might have done.

But never proud of them for the good things they did.

[Cow Poke]

Even so, he is wrong about it being hyperbole.

Kaine was quite adamant about it repeating how the U.S. created slavery several times and even claiming "It got created by the Virginia general assembly and the legislatures of other states." Now even if he he meant here rather than the world at large (where slavery has been going on from time immemorial) he ignores the fact that the first slaves brought to the U.S. was in 1619^[1] -- some 170 years before there was a United States.








1. Some historians say that there were slaves brought here even earlier but that only serves to reinforce my point.

The libs are destroying statues and names, why not history?

[Jim B.]

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va), who is probably most memorable for being completely forgettable, declared during a speech on the Senate floor yesterday that "the United States didn't inherit slavery from anybody. We created it." This wasn't some off the cuff remark that he bungled, but was part of a prepared speech almost certainly proof read by his staff.

To absolutely nobody's surprise the MSM is totally ignoring this brazen attempt to rewrite history.


And we almost had this guy as or Vice President.

Here's the context of what he said:
“There was no law mandating slavery on our shores when African slaves came ashore in 1619. Did slavery already exist in the world? Of course. But not in the laws of colonial America at the time,” Kaine explained. “We could have been a nation completely without the institution. But colonial legislatures and courts, and eventually the U.S. legal system, created the institution on our shores and maintained slavery until the 13th Amendment. As I said, we didn’t inherit it. We chose to create it.”

He acknowledged that it existed as an institution prior to colonial America but that we Americans chose to institute it here and didn't inherit it.

[lilpixieofterror]

But never proud of them for the good things they did.

That’s only if they happen to be Caucasian.

[lilpixieofterror]

Here's the context of what he said:
“There was no law mandating slavery on our shores when African slaves came ashore in 1619. Did slavery already exist in the world? Of course. But not in the laws of colonial America at the time,” Kaine explained. “We could have been a nation completely without the institution. But colonial legislatures and courts, and eventually the U.S. legal system, created the institution on our shores and maintained slavery until the 13th Amendment. As I said, we didn’t inherit it. We chose to create it.”

He acknowledged that it existed as an institution prior to colonial America but that we Americans chose to institute it here and didn't inherit it.

I wasn’t alive 400 years ago, so I no more ‘choose it’ than I choose for lots of bad actions to occur.

[rogue06]

Same here in the UK. People don't know their history Apparently we need to feel guilty about slavery when not only did we abolished it but afterwards put 40% of our taxes into our navy to police the seas to bring about the end of the slave trade altogether.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron



Oh yeah, it's good to be British

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Speaking of the British...

Slavery existed on the North American continent under the British flag for well over twice as long as it did under the U.S. flag.