Kanye West 'explains' his 'Slavery was a choice' statement

[Tribal Outkast]

 

[Fillerguy]

Gaspar Yanga, Nat Turner, John Horse and Toussaint Louverture along with many others thought it was a choice

I don’t fault the majority my ancestors for not having that mindset, they wanted the path of least resistance in a torturous existence but still

I'mma give you benefit of the doubt and assume you are a child. No adult should be this naive.

It's not a matter of what slaves wanted, their lack of freedom wasn't something to rebel against. How can you act against a reality you're told is the way it ought to be. It's be like expecting someone from the 1400s to draft a prototype windshield wiper to make driving in the rain safer; solving a problem they didn't know was a problem.

Our ancestors were constantly remindered through religion, the law and environment that they were where the belonged. It's why slave masters didn't want freed men speaking to their property. It's why they didn't want slaves to read. It's why black families where routinely broken up and discouraged.

It's no coincidence many of the slaves who did rebel we're somewhat educated or had Freedmen assistance. The Haitian revolution met all those conditions.

 

[Eddy Gordo]

so you're saying every single plantation revolted every year

No you non reading clown. Their was a slave revolt somewhere in the continental U.S. almost every year. What does that tell you?

 

[Dilltastic VolWon(derful)]

I’m interested to see what his album sales are first week now.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

Reminded me of those UNCF commercials.

 

[Take It In Blood]

The numbers were on the side of enslaved Africans residing in America?

Nikka in 2018 the numbers still aren't on our side

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

I'mma give you benefit of the doubt and assume you are a child. No adult should be this naive.

It's not a matter of what slaves wanted, their lack of freedom wasn't something to rebel against. How can you act against a reality you're told is the way it ought to be. It's be like expecting someone from the 1400s to draft a prototype windshield wiper to make driving in the rain safer; solving a problem they didn't know was a problem.

Our ancestors were constantly remindered through religion, the law and environment that they were where the belonged. It's why slave masters didn't want freed men speaking to their property. It's why they didn't want slaves to read. It's why black families where routinely broken up and discouraged.

It's no coincidence many of the slaves who did rebel we're somewhat educated or had Freedmen assistance. The Haitian revolution met all those conditions.

Yall really out here thinking the slaves were retarded or some shyt? Enough of them knew what they were going through was wrong, and still, many stood by and did nothing as other died in their search for freedom. And there is nothing wrong with that choice in most circumstances. They just wanted the path of least resistance in a fukked up existence.

No you non reading clown. Their was a slave revolt somewhere in the continental U.S. almost every year. What does that tell you?

So every plantation was an interconnected hive mind? Breh shut yo goof ass up.

 

[Ghost Utmost]

You idiots are feeding into his promo bullshyt

The way to defeat this is to

Ignore him

 

[Milomann]

 

[Beck.er.]

The first slave in this country was owned by a black man named Anthony Johnson. He wasn’t subject to any of the sh*t you just said and went to court to fight for his freedom (and lost).

John Casor wasn't even the first "official" slave in Virginia.

John Punch was sentenced to life servitude for escaping his indenture 15 years prior and black folk getting pushed into lifetime indenture (but not the white servants, somehow) became somewhat common in the 1640s.
And Africans came to the Virginia Colony as slaves, had murky statuses as indentured servants (with longer contracts and more ways to get punished with extensions) and there is no record to prove what happened to the majority and whether or not they ever got freed. White people like to say they were just indentured servants who eventually fulfilled their contracts and were given land/clothes/tools because that is what was supposed to happen (but was never solidified in law) but have no documentation aside from a few exceptions like Johnson that they were treated no different from white servants and all gained their freedom after doing everything asked of them.

Casor ended up with his indenture expanded to lifetime servitude like many in his era who couldn't provide contracts proving their status, black servants in this position were given extensive indentures or became "servants for life" because white society was developing laws and statutes incrementally cementing a system where "servant" (they were allergic to the more accurate 'slave') was the default status for all blacks.
The whole situation was brought about by three white men.

His case is historic because it was decided by a civil suit. But he wasn't the first to get screwed.
White people love to whip out his story as some kind of trump card, accuracy be damned.

 

[newworldafro]

As an African American...when the fukk was this?

I can't take anyone's babble seriously when they so clearly lack any basic knowledge of what they speak, yet arrogantly pontificate as if the cowsht they spew forth is edifying and enlightening to us unwashed masses enshrouded in the darkness of our pitiable ignorance.

Welll......it depends when and where.

At one point South Carolina was if not majority black, 1/3 or 40% black.

Haiti always had way more blacks.

Brazil had so many blacks that the ruling white government wanted Europeans to settle there as much as possible.

 

[xoxodede]

I mean he’s technically right.


Gaspar Yanga, John Horse and Toussaint Louverture wanted freedom for their people and they went out and took that shyt.

Meanwhile we had to wait for the cacs and they still hang that bs over our heads that it was cac Union soldiers that saved us

That’s not how our ancestors got their freedom though - they freed themselves. Read up on the USCT and the CW.

Also, you need to understand and grasp location and environment for the enslaved especially in the Deep South in the U.S.

First, they contanstly ran away - but where could they run and go? Have you been to Alabama? Georgia? If they weren’t close to a border state - they would only runaway to another slave state if they got that far. It was plantations on top of plantations - next door to each other.

When they ran to the woods and swaps they didn’t know where they were or how to get out — plus they didn’t have enough food to barely survive on the plantation - so running away with no food with slave catchers and white people in general on they ass - only a few make it.

White people had guns and weapons - a gun stops shyt. An enslaver had plenty - so did the white people in town and all over the south - who had their back and was on white code.

Plus, their families back on the plantation - getting beat, sold, raped and killed off GP cause they decided to run. That makes you think twice - when you know your mom and grandparents about to be beat to death cause you attempted to run away.

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

That’s not how our ancestors got their freedom though - they freed themselves. Read up on the USCT and the CW.

Also, if need to understand and grasp location and environment for the enslaved especially in the Deep South in the U.S.

First, they contanstly ran away - but where could they run and go? Have you been to Alabama? Georgia? If they weren’t close to a border state - they would only runaway to another slave state if they got that far. It was plantations on top of plantations - next door to each other.

When they ran to the woods and swaps they didn’t know where they were or how to get out — plus they didn’t have enough food to barely survive on the plantation - so running away with no food with slave catchers and white people in general on they ass - only a few make it.

White people have guns and weapons - a gun stops shyt. And enslaver had plenty - so did the white town and all over the south - who had their back and was on white code.

Plus, their families back on the plantation - getting beat,sold, raped and killed off GP cause they decided to run. That makes you think twice - when you know your mom and grandparents about to be beat to death cause you attempted to run away.

Yall acting like I'm shaming them for choosing to remain on the plantation. More knee jerk reaction from this twitter generation.

 

[Crayola Coyote]

And his idea of free thought is saying I love Donald Trump.

tomrrow he gonna say something even more crazy.

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

some y'all still holding out hope for him just because u like a couple songs?

let it go. He's all the way gone