Green Arrow

Is this true? Was America built on slaves?

No, America was discovered, and then taken from natives.

Then buildings were built on top of it, by slaves.

And then the we had the irish and chinese bulid the railroad and we usually bulid those right over their dead bodies.

Man that shit sucked for the Irish. Didn't alot of Irish immigrants fight in the Civil War?

In a metaphorical sense. Much of the capital even, including the White House, was built with the use of slave labor.

A lot of nations were built on the backs of slaves. You Americans aren't special or unique.

some are even celebrated as the pinnacle of civilization (rome)

We had a civil war about it, no big deal.

Remember Ollie is just a raving leftist mouthpiece

>including the White House, was built with the use of slave labor.

So by "metaphorical sense", you mean, literally?

>six hundred thousand white men died so blacks could get their freedoms
>ayy yo whitey gimme dem reparations

What did they mean by this?

A bunch of buildings with no people in them does not make a nation.

I mean in a metaphorical sense in that the land and it's system of government were not physically constructed by slaves, the land being natural and the government being crafted by White non-slaves. But yes, slave labor did contribute heavily to the building of elements of the American country.

That really isn't accurate. Now the south, the south was absolutely built on slavery. The north wasn't. The western expansions following the civil war were not. They were built on the backs of immigrants that everyone treated like shit, such as the Irish and the chinks. focusing on one region and time period and accrediting it with being the driving force/thing that birthed the modern nation is silly. The south was quite unimportant in the grand scheme of things compared to the north and then later the west.

>The south was quite unimportant in the grand scheme of things
Man, American public education really does suck.

I believe Haiti is the only country made by slaves in the literal sense.

Ancient Egypt? Ancient Rome? Technically, any ancient monarchy/dictatorship.
The idea that slavery is a relatively recent shame of human history is a Eurocentric notion.
Just because the Americas are still plagued by the sociological ramifications of the most recent example does not mean that this was not a problem everywhere at one time or another.

Humans are evil to one another. That's always been the norm.

>The south was quite unimportant in the grand scheme of things

Holy shit, the Yandere is real.

Hey dumbass, he's talking about the Haitian revolution, the only successful slave revolt.

American slavery was different from the slavery practiced ancient times.

>Didn't alot of Irish immigrants fight in the Civil War?
Right off the boat from Ireland and onto a train bound for the front. Alot settled in the south after the war too and found out many people who lived in the hills and mountains in the south had Scottish and Irish ancestry. Pretty funny.

Taxation without representation is slavery, so there you go. Also means that there never was slavery in the USA as slaves were represented in the political process.

Checkmate, atheists.