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chris_gerrib) wrote2015-02-25 10:19 am
chris_gerrib) wrote2015-02-25 10:19 am
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Black Pirates, "Social Justice Warriors," and Sad Puppies
One of the many, many fine whines emitted at volume complaints of the Sad Puppies is that "social justice warriors" keep insisting on changing the races of people in order to advance the cause of social justice.
Then I was referred to this interesting article: black men and the black flag. Turns out that during the Age of Sail, lots of black men were pirates. Like, for example, Blackbeard's crew was 60% black!
Nor were these blacks just grunt labor. There was Diego el Mulato Martin (el mulato = "mixed race" in Spanish) who ended up a commissioned officer in Spanish service. Or Diego de Los Reyes, aka Diego el Mulato Lucifer. Or Black Caesar, who spent a decade terrorizing the Caribbean from his base on Elliot Key, then hooked up with Blackbeard.
In short, what happened is that history whitewashed (literally) the pirates of the Age of Sail. The "social justice warriors" are merely restoring historical accuracy to that era.
Then I was referred to this interesting article: black men and the black flag. Turns out that during the Age of Sail, lots of black men were pirates. Like, for example, Blackbeard's crew was 60% black!
Nor were these blacks just grunt labor. There was Diego el Mulato Martin (el mulato = "mixed race" in Spanish) who ended up a commissioned officer in Spanish service. Or Diego de Los Reyes, aka Diego el Mulato Lucifer. Or Black Caesar, who spent a decade terrorizing the Caribbean from his base on Elliot Key, then hooked up with Blackbeard.
In short, what happened is that history whitewashed (literally) the pirates of the Age of Sail. The "social justice warriors" are merely restoring historical accuracy to that era.
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“Who Controls the Present Controls the Past”
There were blacks to be found in Washington's Army, yes. there were also native Americans. There was at least one woman, too. All were individual and isolated exceptions to the general rule.
Re: “Who Controls the Present Controls the Past”
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That is very interesting. Thank you! I was able to corroborate several points mentioned, including the Earl of Dunsmore's proclamation in Nov 1775, about which I hadn't known before.
I'm perfectly willing to be proven wrong on a point, so long as I'm actually wrong, and not merely unCorrect. Technically you're in error also, but your real point was that there were more blacks serving in the American army than was later admitted, and I'll give you that. +
- I love how that article has to hastily kowtow to the PC commissars and immediately whine its explanation for using the now-unCorrect term “black.” Correct Thought speaks with one voice, and such Trotskyite deviationism cannot go unchallenged! (Even Tuvok on Star Trek: Voyager was referred to as an “African-American Vulcan,” which shows how ridiculous these evil clowns are.)
+ There were black freedmen in the Confederacy who owned slaves, just as anyone else did who could afford them. Try finding that in a modern Federal school textbook! Yet it's historical fact also. Pesky things, these 'facts.'