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Chapter 1: What claim about white people and cannibalism is discussed?
Which oppression was worse, the oppression of women or the oppression of African-Americans or blacks? They used to eat us. Wait, what? Eat? African-Americans were eaten. Do they not teach this? They were eaten, turned into furniture. You think there was widespread cannibalism in the United States?
Okay, guys, this needs to stop. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you better. Yeah, you better. Guys, before we get into today's video, please like and subscribe. Today we're headed over to a clip out of the Whatever podcast, not a podcast that I'm typically watching, but this clip is going viral as these black women hop on this show and make a claim that black people were eaten by white people.
And I'm really, I'm over it, guys. I'm over it. Everything boils down to blackness versus whiteness these days. We are making these huge historical claims that have very little support in the actual history of these matters. And this is just another one of those times. So white people, were your ancestors just eating up black people? and turning them into furniture and shoes? Let me know.
Actually, I'll let you know. Let's watch the clip.
Which oppression was worse, the oppression of women or the oppression of African-Americans or blacks? They used to eat us. Wait, what? Eat? African-Americans were eaten.
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Chapter 2: What historical context is provided regarding the claim of cannibalism?
Do they not teach this? They were eaten, turned into furniture. Do you think there was widespread cannibalism in the United States? This was with a specific lady in New Orleans. I know who you're talking about. Wait, wait, hold on. One example of cannibalism is not evidence of widespread. They used to skin us and make leather out of us. Why is that even a question?
Okay. Let's go ahead and stop there. They used to skin us. They used to eat us. What is the implication of a sentence like this or a claim like this? The implication is that there was a widespread, wide scale torturing of African Americans, particularly during the transatlantic slave trade. That's what they're speaking to. and that this was sort of a commonplace practice.
They used to eat us, meaning it's happened multiple times to many African-Americans and Black people at the time. They used to skin us and turn us into, what, leather and furniture. Now, I've looked into this before because I've heard this being shared more and more recently, and I don't know exactly what this is informed by. I do have some theories.
I think critical race theory has sort of taken over a lot of our conversations regarding race. And there are these new age discussions about the transatlantic slave trade that I think are informed by taking little nuggets of history and making them seem like they were systematic issues. And that's what's happening here with the cannibalism claim and the leather furniture claim.
And that's why they're saying this. This did not happen.
on a wide scale in fact i can find very few historical instances of this actually taking place and that's the point that i believe his name is brian makes in this clip just because you find one or two examples of this happening does not mean that you now get to say as a black person they used to eat us they being white people let's keep watching you're only pointing to like one example it's not one example they
christopher columbus like wrote about eating children did christopher columbus write about eating children let's finish the clip this is a cannibal now yes he has doc he literally has journals of eating children that is whoa whoa i don't know we gotta fact check this shit which okay luckily luckily i will do that for you christopher columbus did write about cannibalism
in his many journals of his travels. Was it his own cannibalism? Absolutely not. It was the cannibalism of tribes that he was encountering in his journeys of the new land or the new territory to him. So where she got this idea that Christopher Columbus was writing about eating children, I have no idea.
It's probably the same place that she heard that there was wide scale eating of African-Americans and slaves here in the US by white people. Now, I went into the comments here, and there's a lot of just absolutely insane responses to this clip that are backing up these blacktivists, I'll call them, in this particular video.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts challenge the validity of the cannibalism claim?
It is mainly somebody theorizing or giving their own sort of frame of reference for as to why these situations took place and why the slave trade happened as it happened here in the United States. Now, within the book, there are
a few instances where they talk about black americans uh being cooked i guess and i'll actually pull this up the book documents specific extreme instances of actual cannibalism used as tools of ritualistic terror for example it cites reports that parts of nat turner's body were boiled down into grease or medicinal substances to be ingested by white people as a symbolic final triumph
Now, does that at all account for the claim that we just heard in the beginning of this video? They used to eat us. They used to turn us into furniture. And then I decide, okay, let's look into this whole furniture claim because all we have to do all day now due to these people is look up BS claims and then have to debunk them because they become so widely shared. Let's look at
Human leather rumors, urban legends, and some rare documented historical instances exist of individuals, such as in Philadelphia in the late 19th century, tanning the skin of deceased Black people to make items like shoes or cigar cases. Historians widely agree that this was not widespread or standard practice of the transatlantic slave trade. So can we put this to bed? Can we? Can we?
Now the next time you hear a claim from a group of people like this, you need to sit there and you need to ask yourself, does this sound plausible? Is this true? Do a little bit of research if you can be moved to do so. But I feel as though more often than not, you can pretty much sit and go, that doesn't sound right. That just doesn't sound right.
It sounds more like something that Jordan Peele would use to make Get Out 2 than it does an actual piece of reality or a piece of historical truth. And I think we live in an era and we have
We have been living in this era for a long time where Black people are so obsessed with the sort of evil nature of white people and the idea that all they want to do is subjugate and torture Black people that we will continuously just hear narratives and stories like this at some point. you gotta get over it, okay?
And I'm not saying don't talk about the transatlantic slave trade or don't educate yourself on the transatlantic slave trade. I'm actually saying quite the opposite because it seems like we got our wires crossed a little bit on the education regarding these specific topics. And a lot of this is done to just become an athlete in the oppression Olympics.
The very start of this video was Brian asking, was your oppression worse than that of a woman's oppression? And boom, the stories start coming out about cannibalism and furniture and Christopher Columbus, all to say, because I'm black, I've had it worse than anybody ever.
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Chapter 4: What examples are presented to debunk the cannibalism narrative?
I mean, they're literally black facing history. We've seen it with Queen Charlotte.
and Queen Cleopatra on Netflix, where again, they take a little nugget piece of history or something that was written by a particular historical scholar who also happens to be a black activist, and then they use it to recolor everything that we've known and we've had as a reference for history for a very, very long time. This needs
to stop history stands on its own it is something to be respected and revered and it's something to be talked about accurately there is no need to embellish these stories of torture or these horrific acts they stand on their own Just let them. Now with that, guys, those are my thoughts on this clip out of the whatever podcast.
I'm sure there are many more that need to be debunked and I'm here for it. Send it my way. I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments down below. As always, if you disagree with anything I said in this video, do get out with you. So respectfully, I encourage healthy debate on the channel.
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