Comments by "😊 Erin Thor" (@Erin-Thor) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. Aaron Yarb — You remind me of many years ago in Dallas after the cowboys won a Super Bowl and there was a parade in Dallas. I watched a young man beat the ever loving crap out of a girl screaming “This is payback for 400 years of black slavery” as he held her by the hair with one hand and beat her with another for several minutes. It was captured by a news camera. Let’s be clear on this... yes, whites brought slaves over, and SO DID BLACKS. It was a bad thing everywhere. If I remember my history correctly (?) 30,000 blacks owned almost a million slaves according to the census bureau. It was a different time. But NO ONE ALIVE HAS OWNED SLAVES OR BEEN A SLAVE. All of your anger... justified at history but not at anyone alive today. Your anger serves no one, least of all you or your race. The issues today, if you ask people WHY they are wary, why are they nervous, why would they hesitate to walk in a black neighborhood, would they hesitate to hire a black persons, name the poll... the answer is the same for all races and all situations. Fear. Fear of safety, crime, ability/education (if I hire them and they don’t work out, we won’t be able to let them go because of their race), etc. FEW EVER SAY BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK. At what point do you realize that the situation today has very little to do with 200 plus years ago? We ALL know there are inequalities in this world, how blacks are treated is one of them. Police kill blacks with alarming frequency, but in many cases (not all, not even saying many are not gross injustices) when you watch the video it’s scary to think you might have done the same. So you march, and every sane person of every race was behind you, supporting you. And... what happens? Every March turns violent, riots, fires, looting, property damage and loss of life at the hands at the looters. You have just reaffirmed or reinforced every stereotype and racial stigma you were marching to overcome. Seriously, take a look at how YOU are hurting yourselves before ragging on a narrator for not saying something you wanted him to say.
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  2. Fun Times — Ditto that, why does the USA get the blame for slavery ? It was practiced worldwide by nearly every country including Africa.
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  3. R3tr0humppa it BECAME about slavery as the war waged on. It initially was not, look at the timeline, when the south conscripted slaves to fight, when the emancipation proclamation was issued, and when slavery was abolished nation wide decades later. I’m not saying it wasn’t the right thing, it was. But to spin it as a humanitarian gesture is not historically correct.
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  4. Keep in mind that Blacks owned slaves too, much more common in the North. If I remember correctly that accounted for over 300,000 slaves according to one census. In Africa too, one tribe making slaves of another was common, and it was often a business, they would capture slaves and sell the extra to slavers who would transport them all over the world.
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  5.  @TotalRookie_LV  — It’s a fact.
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  6. R3tr0humppa — Not much of a student are you? The civil war was about states rights over federal rights, it was about taxation and trade, not slavery at the start. Slavery was common in the north and south. While Lincoln did free the slaves, he only freed southern slaves, north had slavery for decades more. Why? It was a military decision. The civil war was a bloody hard fought war taxing both sides, the south conscripted blacks to fight for the south. Lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation to encourage southern slaves to defect, and it worked to counter the south’s efforts. Today we credit Lincoln for being a great man for equality, and he was, but we need to remember why those decisions were made. Open a book once in a while, FACTS MATTER.
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  7. But we have rights now! 😂
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  8. The key here is intent. They did not know what would happen, they had warnings and chose to ignore them. It was the wrong decision, in hindsight. An error in judgement, but criminal?
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  9. Keep in mind slavery then was like a job now.
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  10. ricky sanchez I didn’t make it up, I remember it from history class. As I said, I may have the numbers wrong... let me do some homework.
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  11. @Floral T Shirt — I’m a “Racist piece of shit?” Why, because I payed attention in history class? The civil war didn’t START because of slavery. Look it up.
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