Goodbye, Uncle Tom

[Piff Perkins]

 

[breakfuss]

Yea, I mentioned this above. Song ruined for me at this moment. Unless I can find some merit in this movie.

 

[Bushmaster69]

What kind of graphic scenes are we going to see?

I'm not trying to watch that if certain things happen to women and children.

Not trying to fukk up my day this early

 

[Piff Perkins]

Yea, I mentioned this above. Song ruined for me at this moment. Unless I can find some merit in this movie.

I first heard it in the movie Drive. Haven't seen Goodbye Uncle Tom but that's an amazing theme song.

 

[QU Hectic]

The composer, Riz Ortolani is known for making some of the most beautiful songs for the most horrific of movies

 

[DreadBrown]

Don’t watch this

I nearly negged op for reminding me this shyt existed

 

[breakfuss]

I first heard it in the movie Drive. Haven't seen Goodbye Uncle Tom but that's an amazing theme song.

Yea, that’s where I first heard it too. And the way Drive uses it is masterful. Then I started this joint in OP and the damn song starts playing . I thought I was either mishearing things or it was a fan dub.

 

[Lord_nikon]

Yeah, Henry Lois Gates made a documentary about it years ago. It was especially cruel and they often had problems keeping the slaves alive.

Oh okay,,, I gotta check that out

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Sounds like a mandatory watch for the "get over it" crowd

Show them how disgusting the shyt that happened to our ancestors (ADOS, FBA only) was and why some form of reparations are needed.

you can't force empathy. if we should learn anything from the era of cameras everywhere. people still see police perform executions and debate if they were that. bias is a crazy thing. it even warps your vision.

 

[TEH]

I'm from Charleston SC, the home of the biggest slaveport in the USA. Only 1/7 slaves came to North America. Most went to central and south America (Tru Story).

But we live in America, so we want our reparations here. Cacs claim we need to get over it, but don't say shyt about the Jewbrehs making sure no one forgets about the Holocaust and rightfully so. But even they got reparations and didn't even live here and helped build this country like black slaves and their descendants did.

This is not about reparations it’s about slavery. Which happened in a lot of places and just as bad as in America. Why is this so hard to understand?

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

What kind of graphic scenes are we going to see?

I'm not trying to watch that if certain things happen to women and children.

Not trying to fukk up my day this early

There's scenes depicting EXACTLY what slaves endured based on historically accurate documentation.

Imagine little babies, grown men, and women being 'inspected' like cattle and referred to as 'soulless beasts'.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

This is not about reparations it’s about slavery. Which happened in a lot of places and just as bad as in America. Why is this so hard to understand?

NOTHING was worse than American slavery....

Chapter III The Roots of the Problem

Note: This historic and controversial report was prepared in 1965 by the Department's Office of Policy Planning and Review. The principal author was Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later served as a United States Senator from New York.Slavery

www.dol.gov

The most perplexing question abut American slavery, which has never been altogether explained, and which indeed most Americans hardly know exists, has been stated by Nathan Glazer as follows: "Why was American slavery the most awful the world has ever known?" The only thing that can be said with certainty is that this is true: it was.

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American slavery was profoundly different from, and in its lasting effects on individuals and their children, indescribably worse than, any recorded servitude, ancient or modern.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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Not nitpicking but slavery happened all over the Caribbean and South America as well. More of our ancestors were sent there than to the States.

Chapter III The Roots of the Problem

Note: This historic and controversial report was prepared in 1965 by the Department's Office of Policy Planning and Review. The principal author was Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later served as a United States Senator from New York.Slavery

www.dol.gov

"In Brazil, the slave had many more rights than in the United States: he could legally marry, he could, indeed had to, be baptized and become a member of the Catholic Church, his family could not be broken up for sale, and he had many days on which he could either rest or earn money to buy his freedom. The Government encouraged manumission, and the freedom of infants could often be purchased for a small sum at the baptismal font. In short: the Brazilian slave knew he was a man, and that he differed in degree, not in kind, from his master."

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"[In the United States,] the slave was totally removed from the protection of organized society (compare the elaborate provisions for the protection of slaves in the Bible), his existence as a human being was given no recognition by any religious or secular agency, he was totally ignorant of and completely cut off from his past, and he was offered absolutely no hope for the future. His children could be sold, his marriage was not recognized, his wife could be violated or sold (there was something comic about calling the woman with whom the master permitted him to live a 'wife'), and he could also be subject, without redress, to frightful barbarities — there were presumably as many sadists among slaveowners, men and women, as there are in other groups. The slave could not, by law, be taught to read or write; he could not practice any religion without the permission of his master, and could never meet with his fellows, for religious or any other purposes, except in the presence of a white; and finally, if a master wished to free him, every legal obstacle was used to thwart such action. This was not what slavery meant in the ancient world, in medieval and early modern Europe, or in Brazil and the West Indies.

 

[breakfuss]

Chapter III The Roots of the Problem

Note: This historic and controversial report was prepared in 1965 by the Department's Office of Policy Planning and Review. The principal author was Assistant Secretary of Labor Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later served as a United States Senator from New York.Slavery

www.dol.gov

"In Brazil, the slave had many more rights than in the United States: he could legally marry, he could, indeed had to, be baptized and become a member of the Catholic Church, his family could not be broken up for sale, and he had many days on which he could either rest or earn money to buy his freedom. The Government encouraged manumission, and the freedom of infants could often be purchased for a small sum at the baptismal font. In short: the Brazilian slave knew he was a man, and that he differed in degree, not in kind, from his master."

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"[In the United States,] the slave was totally removed from the protection of organized society (compare the elaborate provisions for the protection of slaves in the Bible), his existence as a human being was given no recognition by any religious or secular agency, he was totally ignorant of and completely cut off from his past, and he was offered absolutely no hope for the future. His children could be sold, his marriage was not recognized, his wife could be violated or sold (there was something comic about calling the woman with whom the master permitted him to live a 'wife'), and he could also be subject, without redress, to frightful barbarities — there were presumably as many sadists among slaveowners, men and women, as there are in other groups. The slave could not, by law, be taught to read or write; he could not practice any religion without the permission of his master, and could never meet with his fellows, for religious or any other purposes, except in the presence of a white; and finally, if a master wished to free him, every legal obstacle was used to thwart such action. This was not what slavery meant in the ancient world, in medieval and early modern Europe, or in Brazil and the West Indies.

Nope, not today, Satan. Y’all not about to turn this into more diaspora war bullshyt. I was specifically talking about the physical conditions. They were notably worse in the West Indies.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Y’all not about to turn this into more diaspora war bullshyt.

Really??​

They were notably worse in the West Indies.

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This was not what slavery meant in the ancient world, in medieval and early modern Europe, or in Brazil and the West Indies.