There's a reason the North wiped out the South: free men create, innovate and prosper, slavery freezes development in place. By 1861, the difference was stark.
Slavery did great damage to the country as a whole up to the present and continues to damage the country. The fertilization of envy by the Democrats and political left has resulted in trillions of dollars invested in destroying the work ethic and family structures of descendants of slaves since the Civil War.
The South had its “peculiar way of life” for about 0.05% of the population. The rest were dependents, black or white. To this day the Democrats build their power on dependency. A vile philosophy.
And that continued under Jim Crow, which was less about race than about keeping the elite in power by dividing poor whites from poor blacks. If they'd gotten together, they'd have swept the old planter class from power during the Populist Movement of the 1890s. The Democrats weren't having it.
It continues to this day. Democrats can only win by promoting division and dependency. Sadly, the GOPe is not far behind in that thinking. 20 million new dependents was not intended to make the country stronger.
People have (understandably) mistaken these as regional or racial battles. They have taken place in certain regions and between certain races, yes. But that just obfuscates the underlying reality that this is a battle between freedom and control.
Thanks for bringing this truth out. Of course it makes sense that free men create prosperity. It is envy, laziness, and racial prejudice (judging by color of skin or ethnic background) that holds people back. Socialism as today’s slavery is a great concept that should be pushed more. Then people could see it more clearly. Innovation and prosperity come from free men who have a stake in creating more abundance, not from slaves or people with no skin in the game.
Slavery was just an extreme form of serfdom. And as Hayek showed in "The Road to Serfdom", modern Communism, Fascism, and "Democratic Socialism" all result in the same end: a vast working class subsisting on the "protection" (as in "protection racket") of whatever the aristocracy chooses to call itself (lords, nomenklatura, makes no difference). Just remember: masters "loved" their slaves, and Big Brother loves you.
Happy Juneteenth to all in the Rod Martin Report audience! 🇺🇸✊🏿✊🏻 Today we celebrate the end of one of the darkest chapters in American history. Let’s also use this day to celebrate the heroes of the Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad as well as all the courageous Union soldiers and sailors black and white, who made this day possible. Today we commemorate heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Grimke Sisters, John Brown, Willam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Sojourner Truth, William Still, Thaddeus Stevens, and Charles Sumner. Slavery was a horrible and barbaric institution. The treatment of slaves varied but was most often brutal. Slaves were whipped, beaten, burned, branded, and made to wear heavy iron collars. They worked from sunup to sundown with no pay. Some were raped by their enslaver. On the auction block, they were made to dance and jump up and down to show their sprightliness. They were made to stand there naked so potential buyers could see their lack of scars from being whipped to show how obedient they were.
“No day ever dawns for the slave.” A free black man wrote “it is night, all night forever.” One white Mississippian was more blunt, “I’d rather be dead” he said “then be a n***** on one of these big plantations.” Slaves had their families broken apart with spouses being separated from one another or children being taken from their parents. Slaves marriages were not legally recognized and could be dissolved anytime the master chose. If a slave ran away they be punished harshly if caught. Even if they ran away to the North that wasn’t a guarantee they were safe as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 stipulated Southern slave owners with the assistance of U.S. Marshals and bounty hunters could pursue them into the North, apprehended them and took them back down South in chains. Slavery was without question, morally wrong. But it was also economically inefficient and held back the growth of the South’s economy. Meanwhile, the North soared ahead with factories and free labor. The free states were richer than the slave states precisely because they rejected slavery. This isn’t to say that racism didn’t exist in the North, it did. But the North at the very least, didn’t have human bondage and allowed every man and woman to prosper as independent, free human beings albeit with free blacks only being able to do so to a limited extent, but nonetheless, the North was relatively open and gave everyone differing degrees of opportunity to make something of themselves in this great country. This is why Massachusetts, Maine and New York thrived while Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee languished in poverty. This would remain true LONG after the Civil War ended. Slavery played a BIG part in why this is.
Guess who supported not only slavery but racial segregation, lynching, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, black codes, and laws against interracial marriage? The Democratic Party. Guess which of the two parties America’s first terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan, was the fighting arm of? You guessed it, the Democrats. Guess which party George Wallace, James Eastland, Storm Thurmond, Walter George, Cotton Ed Smith, James Byrnes, Richard Russell, J. Lister Hill, A. Willis Robertson, Herman Talmadge, and Hale Boggs belonged to? Ding, ding, ding, the Democrats! Meanwhile, the Republicans were the Party of Lincoln who fought against slavery and for civil rights. Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon were all Republican Presidents who fought for civil rights to one degree or another.
Bravo! I've often said that "thou SHALT covet everything that is thy neighbor's" is the most fundamental—though unspoken and unacknowledged—platform of the Democratic Party.
I loved this line especially—"the Democratic Party ... doesn’t celebrate this holiday so much as it uses it as a club, to stoke division ..." Indeed!
Thank you, @The Rod Martin Report! Your insights are valuable and I hope become more widely shared and understood so that we can indeed come closer together and celebrate more of what we all have in common and not fight over our differences.
It's trash. Think about it: if virtually all the buyers at slave auctions were Jewish, that means that virtually the entire Southern (and Brazillian) planter class would have had to be Jews. It's simply absurd.
Jews did bad stuff. So did everybody else. These people just want scapegoats.
I looked up the book he referenced and it appears to be legit. At the beginning of the book, it says they were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1492 (right about the time Columbus "sailed the ocean blue"). But he left out the next sentence about preferring the Jews.
"If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish holiday, the auction had to be postponed.... Incidentally, slaves generally preferred Jewish owners to Dutch and Portuguese owners, because the Jews usually gave them two days a week free of work, Saturdays and Sundays."
Facts are facts no matter what you call me. I have ashkenazi jewish genes, but identify with Jesus first and foremost and He is The Truth. Most don't even know where they came from https://youtu.be/-7f3OH-VzN0
First, if I accidentally called you anything at all, I apologize.
Second, I completely agree with your sentiment: few know their heritage, and the only heritage that really matters is that we are adopted by the Father.
My ancestors were not even vaguely Jewish. But some of them definitely owned slaves.
Amen!
This article and the truths it presents are sorely needed to be read and spread around to as large an audience as possible.
It undermines and dispels the myths that too many Americans have absorbed for 6 decades and accepted as facts.
Kudos, Rod, for publishing this.
Well done, sir.
Thank you.
Slavery did great damage to the country as a whole up to the present and continues to damage the country. The fertilization of envy by the Democrats and political left has resulted in trillions of dollars invested in destroying the work ethic and family structures of descendants of slaves since the Civil War.
Absolutely.
The South had its “peculiar way of life” for about 0.05% of the population. The rest were dependents, black or white. To this day the Democrats build their power on dependency. A vile philosophy.
And that continued under Jim Crow, which was less about race than about keeping the elite in power by dividing poor whites from poor blacks. If they'd gotten together, they'd have swept the old planter class from power during the Populist Movement of the 1890s. The Democrats weren't having it.
It continues to this day. Democrats can only win by promoting division and dependency. Sadly, the GOPe is not far behind in that thinking. 20 million new dependents was not intended to make the country stronger.
People have (understandably) mistaken these as regional or racial battles. They have taken place in certain regions and between certain races, yes. But that just obfuscates the underlying reality that this is a battle between freedom and control.
Thanks for bringing this truth out. Of course it makes sense that free men create prosperity. It is envy, laziness, and racial prejudice (judging by color of skin or ethnic background) that holds people back. Socialism as today’s slavery is a great concept that should be pushed more. Then people could see it more clearly. Innovation and prosperity come from free men who have a stake in creating more abundance, not from slaves or people with no skin in the game.
Slavery was just an extreme form of serfdom. And as Hayek showed in "The Road to Serfdom", modern Communism, Fascism, and "Democratic Socialism" all result in the same end: a vast working class subsisting on the "protection" (as in "protection racket") of whatever the aristocracy chooses to call itself (lords, nomenklatura, makes no difference). Just remember: masters "loved" their slaves, and Big Brother loves you.
Happy Juneteenth to all in the Rod Martin Report audience! 🇺🇸✊🏿✊🏻 Today we celebrate the end of one of the darkest chapters in American history. Let’s also use this day to celebrate the heroes of the Abolitionist Movement and the Underground Railroad as well as all the courageous Union soldiers and sailors black and white, who made this day possible. Today we commemorate heroes like Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, the Grimke Sisters, John Brown, Willam Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Sojourner Truth, William Still, Thaddeus Stevens, and Charles Sumner. Slavery was a horrible and barbaric institution. The treatment of slaves varied but was most often brutal. Slaves were whipped, beaten, burned, branded, and made to wear heavy iron collars. They worked from sunup to sundown with no pay. Some were raped by their enslaver. On the auction block, they were made to dance and jump up and down to show their sprightliness. They were made to stand there naked so potential buyers could see their lack of scars from being whipped to show how obedient they were.
“No day ever dawns for the slave.” A free black man wrote “it is night, all night forever.” One white Mississippian was more blunt, “I’d rather be dead” he said “then be a n***** on one of these big plantations.” Slaves had their families broken apart with spouses being separated from one another or children being taken from their parents. Slaves marriages were not legally recognized and could be dissolved anytime the master chose. If a slave ran away they be punished harshly if caught. Even if they ran away to the North that wasn’t a guarantee they were safe as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 stipulated Southern slave owners with the assistance of U.S. Marshals and bounty hunters could pursue them into the North, apprehended them and took them back down South in chains. Slavery was without question, morally wrong. But it was also economically inefficient and held back the growth of the South’s economy. Meanwhile, the North soared ahead with factories and free labor. The free states were richer than the slave states precisely because they rejected slavery. This isn’t to say that racism didn’t exist in the North, it did. But the North at the very least, didn’t have human bondage and allowed every man and woman to prosper as independent, free human beings albeit with free blacks only being able to do so to a limited extent, but nonetheless, the North was relatively open and gave everyone differing degrees of opportunity to make something of themselves in this great country. This is why Massachusetts, Maine and New York thrived while Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee languished in poverty. This would remain true LONG after the Civil War ended. Slavery played a BIG part in why this is.
Guess who supported not only slavery but racial segregation, lynching, poll taxes, literacy tests, grandfather clauses, black codes, and laws against interracial marriage? The Democratic Party. Guess which of the two parties America’s first terrorist group the Ku Klux Klan, was the fighting arm of? You guessed it, the Democrats. Guess which party George Wallace, James Eastland, Storm Thurmond, Walter George, Cotton Ed Smith, James Byrnes, Richard Russell, J. Lister Hill, A. Willis Robertson, Herman Talmadge, and Hale Boggs belonged to? Ding, ding, ding, the Democrats! Meanwhile, the Republicans were the Party of Lincoln who fought against slavery and for civil rights. Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon were all Republican Presidents who fought for civil rights to one degree or another.
Here is some recommended reading for Dr. Martin’s subscribers in honor of Juneteenth:
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
• Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
• Far More Terrible for Women: Personal Accounts of Women in Slavery by Patrick Minges
• American Uprising: The Untold Story of America's Largest Slave Revolt by Daniel Rasmussen
• Denmark Vesey: The Buried Story of America's Largest Slave Rebellion and the Man Who Led It by David Robertson
• Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America by Allen C. Guelzo
• Where Death and Glory Meet: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Infantry by Russell Duncan
• Soldiers in the Army of Freedom: The 1st Kansas Colored, the Civil War's First African American Combat Unit by Ian Michael Spurgeon
Bravo! I've often said that "thou SHALT covet everything that is thy neighbor's" is the most fundamental—though unspoken and unacknowledged—platform of the Democratic Party.
I loved this line especially—"the Democratic Party ... doesn’t celebrate this holiday so much as it uses it as a club, to stoke division ..." Indeed!
Thank you, @The Rod Martin Report! Your insights are valuable and I hope become more widely shared and understood so that we can indeed come closer together and celebrate more of what we all have in common and not fight over our differences.
Amen.
Couldnt agree more. Is this true or antisemitic? https://www.facebook.com/reel/614554884830331
It's trash. Think about it: if virtually all the buyers at slave auctions were Jewish, that means that virtually the entire Southern (and Brazillian) planter class would have had to be Jews. It's simply absurd.
Jews did bad stuff. So did everybody else. These people just want scapegoats.
I looked up the book he referenced and it appears to be legit. At the beginning of the book, it says they were forced to convert to Catholicism in 1492 (right about the time Columbus "sailed the ocean blue"). But he left out the next sentence about preferring the Jews.
"If it happened that the date of such an auction fell on a Jewish holiday, the auction had to be postponed.... Incidentally, slaves generally preferred Jewish owners to Dutch and Portuguese owners, because the Jews usually gave them two days a week free of work, Saturdays and Sundays."
https://archive.org/stream/Arnold-Wiznitzer-Jews-in-Colonial-Brazil/Arnold Wiznitzer - Jews in Colonial Brazil-Columbia University Press (1960)_compressed (1)_djvu.txt
Regardless, we can agree we'd be better off without that ever happening.
Again, not a lot of Jews in Alabama. I probably know all three of them. Blaming the Jews for what our ancestors did is really low.
Facts are facts no matter what you call me. I have ashkenazi jewish genes, but identify with Jesus first and foremost and He is The Truth. Most don't even know where they came from https://youtu.be/-7f3OH-VzN0
First, if I accidentally called you anything at all, I apologize.
Second, I completely agree with your sentiment: few know their heritage, and the only heritage that really matters is that we are adopted by the Father.
My ancestors were not even vaguely Jewish. But some of them definitely owned slaves.