Dakota Beacon

The recent acquittal of George Zimmerman (Hispanic) in the death of Trayvon  Martin (Black) produced wall-to-wall racial incitement. Not that race ever entered into the courtroom deliberations. Race became a phony, ginned-up issue only after the outcome did not fit the race baiters' narrative. When
 the eyewitness, the testimony, ballistics and forensics supported Zimmerman's story, all that was left for Martin's supporters was to dredge up sympathy and divisiveness stemming from America's past wrongs -- slavery.

 Here is the line of reasoning never discussed in the mainstream media.  Zimmerman's trial produced the wrong outcome. Reason? Race somehow played a part. Why? Racism runs deep and wide in our society. Reason? Blacks have been mistreated since the days of slavery. Result? Blacks can never receive
 fair treatment. This is typical fare for the race merchants, for those who make big bucks on racial division.
 

Slavery has a long and sordid history. Black Americans, in the very short span of American history, are not alone in bearing the stigma of this horrible institution. I know.  My people experienced slavery for millennia.

 In this era of political correctness, in the shadow of the Civil Rights movement, knowledge of White slavery has all but disappeared. White slave trade is a little known story in the suppressed history of America's education system. Within academia the unprecedented focus by educators on the Black experience assumes that only Blacks in American history were subject to slavery. The US Navy was, in part, created to confront Muslim corsairs in the Mediterranean taking US citizens as slaves.

 Slavery knows no racial, ethnic or cultural bounds. Thousands of years ago the Greeks, famous for their early practice of democracy, enslaved other peoples as well as their fellow Greeks. Romans enslaved thousands of Celtic peoples in Britain. Julius Caesar brought into slavery more than a million
 Gauls and slave dealers followed in the wake of his legions. After Charlemagne conquered Saxony huge numbers of captured Caucasians were forced into slave markets to be sold like cattle.

 From the 8th to the 11th centuries France was a major transit point for White slaves to the Muslim world. The sale of White slaves to Asia and Africa provided European treasuries with a regular supply of gold. Rouen, France in particular was the port for shipping Irish and Flemish slaves to the Muslim world. Venice, Italy was also a major transit point for White slaves brought from northern Europe across the Alps and traded for oriental luxury goods, especially clothes.

 The stereotype often presented is the Muslim slaver herding Blacks across the desert. In fact, for more than seven centuries, until the fall of Muslim Spain, the opposite was true. It was chained White slaves that were herded to market.

 In the eastern European steppes there was a flourishing slave network.  Slavs and Finns entered the Muslim slave markets via the Black and Caspian Sea routes. The word "slave" is derived from the word "Slav." White Russian Muscovites were enslaved by both European slave traders and large slave
 raiding operations conducted by the Mongols and by the Ottoman Empire.  Slave trading was a major commercial activity in the Viking age with the main source of slaves coming from the Scots, Irish, Danes and Icelanders. Viking slavers sold tens of thousands of White slaves to Muslims in Spain.   So lucrative was the slave trade that Spanish Muslims sent diplomatic missions to Scandinavia during the 840s to formalize trade relations.

 More recently, the British parliament in 1659 debated the practice of selling British Whites into slavery in the "New World." This was the British solution to the problem of poor Whites in urban England during the Industrial Revolution and the "Irish Problem" confronting British landlords.  Today, Caucasian-Americans are called upon to carry what Harvard Professor Shelby Steele calls "white guilt" referring to a sense of individual or collective guilt felt by some Whites for America's history. In its sickest form, race hustlers, liberals, progressives and Democrats use white guilt to politically induce support for affirmative action and redistribution of wealth via reparations.

 If there are any ties to slavery and racial hatred in America today, one look no further than the diplomatically protected Saudi Arabian mission to the United States. Instance after instance of Saudi slavery and human trafficking occur almost every day with no mainstream media coverage.
 Who will pay reparations to my people? Who will speak for my people who were bound in servitude? Where is the social justice for my people? But enough already. The catalyst of slavery must not be used as an excuse for progressive social reforms.   Get over it. No Black born in the US today ever experienced the institution of slavery. My people do not need to be lectured by the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson on the evils of slavery. We overcame the institutional stigma to create the freest nation on earth. Today, people flock to our shores, legally and illegally, for freedom.
 
 Dennis M. Patrick can be contacted at P. O. Box 337, Stanley, ND 58784 or (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).