Fact: Slavery Universal

“According to liberals, racism is not a human problem but a uniquely white problem.”

— George Neumayr, American Spectator 

Right, and liberals are wrong. Neumayr goes on to quote Black economist Thomas Sowell:

Of all the tragic facts about the history of slavery, the most astonishing to an American today is that, although slavery was a worldwide institution for thousands of years, nowhere in the world was slavery a controversial issue prior to the 18th century. People of every race and color were enslaved — and enslaved others. White people were still being bought and sold as slaves in the Ottoman Empire, decades after American blacks were freed.

Everyone hated the idea of being a slave but few had any qualms about enslaving others. Slavery was just not an issue, not even among intellectuals, much less among political leaders, until the 18th century — and then it was an issue only in Western civilization. Among those who turned against slavery in the 18th century were George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and other American leaders. You could research all of the 18th century Africa or Asia or the Middle East without finding any comparable rejection of slavery there. But who is singled out for scathing criticism today? American leaders of the 18th century.

Neumayr concludes that liberalism’s goal isn’t “racial harmony.” Instead, liberals seek power gained through “a race war” between those who didn’t suffer from slavery and segregation on one side, and those who weren't responsible for either on the other.