by DoTheMath

Created on: December 23, 2009

White slavery doesn't even exist in our history textbooks, but it sure existed in America (and other countries)!  Some people think it never happened, even though the word comes from "Slav", a group of whites who were often enslaved throughout history. ("They Were White and They Were Slaves: The Untold History of the Enslavement of Whites in Early America" by Michael A. Hoffman II.  Also good - "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" by Don Jordan and Michael Walsh, and "The White Slave: Another Picture of Slave Life in America" by Richard Hildreth)  Under the Poor Laws, the poor were auctioned off by the workhouses to the highest bidder to be worked until they collapsed in exchange for meager food and shelter. (http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasomers/poor.htm ).  It's almost Christmas as I post this, so I'm going to quote from Charles Dickens:

Scrooge: Are there no workhouses?
Philanthropists: Many would rather die than go there.
Scrooge: Then they'd better do it, and decrease the surplus population.

Dickens also wrote Oliver Twist, a story about an orphan in a workhouse who narrowly escapes becoming a chimney sweep (which deformed or killed 4-year-old boys, yet they still had to beg in the streets for food). Dickens sympathized because he'd spent time as a boy in a workhouse. The practice of child slavery in the factories was also taking place in America, and those kids have descendants living today.

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-446654/Revea led-Britains-white-child-slaves.html

If I had to guess, my bet would be the children who will lose teeth in 2010 in the Appalachian Hills cause their parents can't afford milk. I used to tutor in Oakland, California for black kids (many had their own cell phones) who'd smash their government-issued pizza, brownies and fruit snacks into the ground during their food fights.  The government also bought them toy bribes, while allowing the Appalachian children to starve.

Obama's speech about his white grandmother's racism at fearing black men when she's alone was considered a selling point as he ran for President. It's considered racist to quote crime statistics, so I must refer back to the FBI's October Uniform Crime Reports of 1993, when blacks killed 22 times as many whites as whites did blacks (pg. 294, "Why Race Matters" by Michael Levin).  With a ratio of 22 murders to 1, why do we need hate crime legislation preventing the 1 murder but not the other 22?  People often point to white fear of black rage as an example of white racism, but crime statistics comparing black (I don't know what to call it cause it's not poverty, but qualifications for government funding?) show that in Oakland, where a one-bedroom apartment costs $1600 a month, the murder rate is 3.5 times the national average (Oakland Crime Report http://www.cityrating.com/citycrime.asp?city=Oakland&state=CA) and all crime is above the national average, yet all crime is below the national average, especially violent crime, in the truly poverty-stricken Appalachian Hills. ("Spatial Analysis of Crime In Appalachia" by James G. Cameron, pg. 94. http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/189559.pdf ).  Yeah, reverse racism exists, and it's mostly targeting the poorest whites.

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