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Welcome to Keep tonight, don't 
tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian institute. 
This book is titled Black Slave 

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owners Free Black Slave Masters 
in South Carolina, 1790 to 1860 

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by historian Larry Koger. 
Black slaveholding is a 

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historical phenomenon which has 
not been fully explored by 

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scholars. 
Graduate students of history are

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often surprised to learn that 
some free blacks own slaves. 

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Even historians are frequently 
skeptical until they discover 

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the number of black masters and 
the number of slaves owned by 

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them. 
Have they also consulted African

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literature to see if there were 
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Africa in the last 10,000 years 
or the Middle East? 

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At the height of American 
slavery, the percentage of 

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whites who owned slaves was less
than 1% to many readers, slavery

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was an institution exclusively 
utilized by white slave owners. 

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The fact that free blacks owned 
slaves has been lost to the 

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annals of history. 
Yet at one time or another, free

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black slave owners resided in 
every southern state which 

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continuance slavery, and even in
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In Louisiana, Maryland, South 
Carolina and Virginia, free 

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blacks owned more than 10,000 
slaves according to the federal 

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census of 1830. 
Many of the black masters in the

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lower South were large planters 
who owned scores of slaves and 

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planted large quantities of 
cotton, rice, and sugar cane. 

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In 1860, for example, August 
Donato, a free colored planter 

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of Saint Landry Parish in 
Louisiana, owned 70 slaves who 

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worked 500 acres of land and 
produced 100 bales of cotton. 

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About 600 miles to the east of 
Louisiana in the county of 

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Sumter, SC, William Ellison, a 
free colored planter, used the 

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labor of 70 slaves to cultivate 
100 bales of cotton in 1861. 

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In South Carolina, Robert 
Michael Collins and Margaret 

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Mitchell Harris use their slaves
to till the soil of Santee 

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Plantation and grew 240,000 lbs 
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But the majority of the large 
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Louisiana and planted sugar 
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So the leftist position that 
slavery is all about racism 

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doesn't address all the slavery 
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transport, such as ships, which 
were able to get different races

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to interact with each other. 
Thomas Sowell's lesson of 

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slavery is the reason people 
were enslaved is not because of 

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their race. 
They were enslaved because they 

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were vulnerable. 
If it's slavery to force someone

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to pick cotton against their 
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say that to force someone to 
perform military service and get

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their limbs blown off and get 
killed against their will is 

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also slavery. 
So why is Vladimir Zelinsky 

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enslaving millions of men in 
Ukraine? 

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Why is Vladimir Putin enslaving 
millions of Russians? 

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Why did the American government 
enslave millions of white and 

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black and Latino and Asian men 
into the American Civil War, the

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Vietnam War, the First World 
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World War? 
Because they were vulnerable. 

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And what makes this bad is not 
the race of the people involved.

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Slavery's bad because it 
violates the principle of 

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consent. 
It violates the non aggression 

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principle. 
In 1860, Madame Siphran Richard 

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and her son Pierre Richard Free 
Mulatos of Ibeville Parish, 

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owned 168 slaves. 
The joint operation of mother 

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and son used the labor of slaves
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sugar in 1859. 
Yet not all black masters were 

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planters from the South. 
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had eight black slave owners who
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In short, the institution of 
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widespread, stretching as far 
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Mississippi, Louisiana, and 
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Instead of playing the whites 
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virtuous game. 
Why don't we just embrace the 

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non aggression principle and say
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That it's wrong to justify 
initiating violence against 

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peaceful people and extrapolate 
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Here are some quotes from Thomas
Sowell Nationwide, a majority, 

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54%, of all black children were 
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1992. 
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of slavery as sometimes claimed.
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of black children were still 
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white family in the past or 
present, it is clear that broken

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homes were more common among 
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century than they were in the 
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beginning of that century, even 
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of the 20th century were just 
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From 1930 to 1934. 
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black women were premarital, 
while from 1990 to 1994 seventy,

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7% were. 
How can you blame this on the 

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legacy of slavery when 
generations that were more 

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closely connected to slavery 
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not see such a correlation 
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care for education or the 
massive low impulse control that

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we see today? 
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this to what Seoul refers to as 
redneck behavior among Western 

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Hemisphere nations. 
Racial oppression was at its 

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worst in the United States, 
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states of the South. 
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161 per year in 1892 in the 
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governments murder that many 
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While this phenomenon remained 
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Caribbean, Haitian blacks, 
having been the most independent

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of whites for more than two 
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prosperous in the hemisphere, 
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if racial oppression accounts 
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But in fact, their respective 
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the reverse, again suggesting 
that human capital has a far 

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greater effect than racial 
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This was the point Walter Ree 
Williams made in his book Race 

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and Economics. 
He said, all right, so the 

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problem in the world when it 
comes to what causes economic 

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inequality or poverty is some 
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It's the discrimination 
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He goes all right, and if 
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racism, we should see the 
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America. 
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and Economics, American blacks 
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wealthiest blacks on the planet.
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Thus, the institution of 
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continent and going back 
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discussed as if it were peculiar
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When in fact, even the African 
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Arabs for centuries before 
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continued for at least another 
century after the European slave

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trade to the Western Hemisphere 
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At the heart of the story was 
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its own domains within a 
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pressure on other nations for 
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prejudice. 
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signaled out as peculiarly, 
peculiarly culpable for a 

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worldwide evil in which it 
participated, when in fact it's 

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only real uniqueness was in 
ultimately opposing and 

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destroying the evil. 
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States was referred to as a 
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was in fact one of the oldest 
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on earth. 
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identified with the enslavement 
of Africans, that too ignores 

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the long history and vast scope 
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The very word slave is derived 
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enslaved on a massive scale and 
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across the continent of Europe 
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In the 18 twenties, 6000 Greeks 
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and half a century later a 
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noted that both white and black 
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in Egypt and Turkey years after 
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the United States. 
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legacy of slavery is a keener 
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If the history of slavery ought 
to teach us anything, it is that

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human beings cannot be trusted 
with unbridled power over other 

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human beings, no matter what 
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The history of ancient despotism
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practically shouts that same 
message from the blood stained 

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pages of history. 
But that is not the message that

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is being taught in our schools 
and colleges or dramatized on 

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television and in the movies. 
The message that is pounded home

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again and again is that white 
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The treatment of white galley 
slaves was even worse than the 

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treatment of black slaves who 
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But there are no movies or 
television dramas about it 

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comparable to Roots, and our 
schools and colleges don't # it 

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into the heads of students. 
The inhumanity of human beings 

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toward other human beings is not
a new story, much less a local 

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story. 
There is no need to hide it, 

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because there are lessons we can
learn from it, but there's also 

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no need to distort it so that 
sins of the whole human species 

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around the world are presented 
as special defects of our 

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society or the sins of a 
particular race. 

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Those who mine history for sins 
are not searching for truth, but

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for opportunities to denigrate 
their own society or for 

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grievances that can be cashed in
today at the expense of people 

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who are not even born when the 
sins of the past were committed.

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If the western world was so 
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and just didn't care about 
blacks at all, you have to 

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really find it difficult to 
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Wars of Oliver Cromwell took 
place and the elites were happy 

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for hundreds of thousands of 
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The American Civil War that took
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have hundreds of thousands of 
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How about the First World War? 
Millions of white deaths from 

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the elite psychopath class. 
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The most vilified country in all
of human history is white 

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Germany. 
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country in the world is White 
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The problem is not whites are 
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elites are on the side of 
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You'd think if they were, they'd
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their power to stop the mass 
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Russia. 
But they just don't care. 

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Not that they're trying to stop.
What's the genocide that's 

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taking place in Gaza. 
The point is, they're 

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opportunists. 
If they want to use race as 

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something to pin one portion of 
society against the other in 

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order to extract a high social 
status, they will do that. 

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If ignoring it is beneficial, 
then they're going to happily 

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ignore that. 
If nationalism is beneficial, 

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they'll embrace that. 
If globalism is beneficial, 

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they'll embrace that. 
Here's Thomas Soul summarizing 

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it. 
People were enslaved because 

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they were vulnerable, not 
because of how they looked. 

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Again, military conscription by 
every definition of the word. 

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The claim of ownership over 
another person, forced labor 

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against their will, and terrible
conditions. 

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I wouldn't say jury duty. 
While it is technically forced 

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labor, while technically a form 
of enslavement, it doesn't 

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really meet the spirit of the 
threshold of enslavement. 

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But military conscription, 
especially the Battle of Bach 

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moot in in Ukraine, where the 
life expectancy according to NBC

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is 4 hours. 
Yeah, having military 

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conscription in that is 
certainly worse than slavery. 

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I'll end it with this quote 
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What can any society hope to 
gain by having some babies in 

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that society born into the world
with a priori grievances against

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other babies born into that same
society on the same? 

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Could you imagine raising a son 
and everyday telling him you 

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know? 
Men are only 50% of the 

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population, yet 95.5% of people 
killed by police, therefore that

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proves the police are sexist. 
Men have lower life expectancies

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than women, that's sexism. 
Men are 50% of the population, 

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yet 90% of workplace deaths. 
That's sexism. 

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Men are 50% of the population, 
yet the vast majority of 

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homeless people. 
That is sexism. 

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Don't try and work harder 
because that's just you being a 

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part of the system. 
The only thing you can do is 

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overthrow the system, start 
getting together with your male 

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friends and start rioting and 
start looting. 

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That's how you change. 
Don't bother showing up to work 

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on time. 
Don't bother getting on the job 

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training. 
Don't try to have good impulse 

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control. 
Don't value education. 

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No, you have no control over 
this. 

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It's all about the system. 
So put a lot of money into 

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political candidates. 
Make sure you vote once every 

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four years. 
That'll really change things. 

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The only reason you would raise 
a son like that is if you wanted

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to basically have your son live 
a completely miserable life. 

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But that is how Hollywood, the 
media and academics, and the 

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Democrats are trying to raise 
black America, constantly 

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vilifying people for the color 
of their skin while the content 

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of the Democrats character 
continues to get worse every 

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single day you open Twitter. 
Thank you for watching Keith 

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Knight. 
Don't tread on anyone in the 

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Libertarian Institute.