Alex Haley's "Roots" - A fraud from beginning to end
Black commentator Stanley Crouch refers to Haley as a “ruthless hustler,” “one of the biggest darn liars this country has ever seen.” Such is the magnitude of Haley’s “hoax” that it serves as a textbook illustration of “how history and tragic fact can be pillaged by an individual willing to exploit whatever the naïve might consider sacred.”
Black scholar Thomas Sowell remarks that Roots consists of “some crucially false pictures” regarding slavery which “continue to dominate thinking today.” For instance, West Africa had been “a center of slave trading before the first white man arrived there [.]”
Sowell also reminds us that “slavery continues in parts of Africa to this very moment.”
For centuries, Africans (Muslims) enslaved Europeans (Christians).
The first slaves in America were white.
The first legal slave master in America, Anthony Johnson, was black.
Johnson owned black and white servants.
There were blacks in America before slavery.
Prior to the War Between the States there were some 4,000 black slave masters in the South.
Slavery, to say nothing of a whole lot worse than slavery, persists to the present day in black Africa.
Slavery was a global institution until white Christians, especially white English Christians, spearheaded a moral revolt against it. The British Empire, while at its apex, deployed its military and economic might to bear upon Africa, the Middle East, and Asia to abolish this perennial practice—while along being met with considerable resistance by Africans, Arabs, and Asians who profited from it.
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