Pan Africanism : black and native american links black indians

Liviti,

Things can be correct and they can still be a mischarecterization because of the prominence you give them.

For instance only 10 percent of African Americans ever go to prison. You wouldn't know that from the prominence the African Americans going to jail are given.

In fact African Americans only make up 7 percent of drug users in this country but again you would not know that because of the prominence that the African American crack head is given.

Distortion, emphasis and placement of CORRECT facts can often lead to images, beliefs and perceptions that are INCORRECT.

Or as a historian would say: ahistorical.

That would be like me pointing out that African Americans owned slaves. While correct. It is ahistorical and does not reveal any truth of what was happening in this country.

Or another quite popular distortion is the fact that Africans sold slaves. Once again CORRECT but a hugh distortion that does not show the truth of the situtation.
 
Liviti,

The truth is that the majority of Indian Tribes fought WITH the Black man against the Whiteman for hundreds of years. But on the verge of genocide, 5 tribes tried to save themselves by becoming civilized. These tribes were referred to by whites as the 5 civilized tribes.

These tribes which were so integrated into white culture that some of their chiefs were even WHITE. Less than 3 percent participated in slavery and these mostly the white members of the tribes.

Eventually these 5 civilized tribes were basically slaughtered and ripped off by the whiteman that they were trying to copy. The Full blooded Indians decided that it was due to their participation in slavery, no matter how small. So after some fighting with the whites and the mixed whites among them, the full blooded Indians were able to prevail and get all the slaves freed.
 
liviti,

I wouldn't worry about those who "romanticize" history. I would worry more about the fact that history is "politicized".

It is just a known fact that whites are looking for any historical facts no matter how small, to try and "muddy" the issue of their great guilt.

So they bring up the miniscule amount of "mixed" Indians, some of them with white chiefs, in an even smaller amount of tribes who enslaved Africans, so now they throw things out of proportion.

350,000 white slave owners and 2 Indians enslaved Blacks.

In fact the person trying to bring up the Indian slavers is the one trying to "romanticize" history for current POLITICAL REASONS. .

White history that is.
 

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