Hat tip to Tim Blair for yet another example of moonbats showing their ignorance:
JAMESTOWN - Holding “Shame on Jamestown” signs and surrounded by police in riot gear, more than 30 members of the New Black Panther Party gathered outside Historic Jamestowne on Saturday to protest violence and slavery in America’s first English settlement.
Members of the Panthers pumped their fist to shouts of “Black power!” and “Death to white supremacy!”
Problem 1: If you follow the link and look at the poster the “activsts” are holding, you’ll notice that it’s a photograph. Jamestown was settled in 1607, more than two hundred years before photographs.
Problem 2: There were no slaves at the Jamestown Settlement. Look up Captain John Smith.
Had these idiots been in school instead of running around in gangs, selling crack, and participating in drive-by shootings for fun, they might have learned something. But it does get better, because of course, there were guilty little rich kid liberals there:
“It’s a point well-taken,” said Robin List, a 28-year-old social worker from Denver, who watched through a bus window.
During her entire trip to Jamestown, List saw not a mention of slavery in the early colony. More exhibits should be dedicated to the issue, she said, “especially if you’re celebrating the anniversary of a country built on the backs of other people.”
Because there weren’t any, you idiot. But better yet:
Grant Jenkins, who watched the entire protest, said he had mixed feelings about it. Some of their concerns were legitimate, he said, such as their protest of violence in the colony. But he found it disturbing when one speaker called King James I a derisive term for a homosexual.
“It bothers me she would use sexuality as a way to insult somebody,” said Jenkins, 38, who teaches English at the University of Tulsa.
Forget their ignorance. Forget the sheer hutzpah of a self-defined violent group protesting violence. Black power, Death to America, this doesn’t bother him, but slurring James I does. What a frigging moron.
Overall, he said, free speech is “what America is about.”
“It’s healthy,” he said.
The freedom to make a drooling idiot of yourself. Yes, that’s extremely healthy.
Jeffrey Quick says:
OK, granted, drooling idiots.
But I looked up Capt. Smith, and what’s your point here? At a point when Jamestown was still the pre-eminent English colony in America (1619), 20 black men were purchased as indentured servants from a Portuguese slave ship. Granted, this was not slavery, but it may have been a difference without a distinction, given the treatment of indentured servants…in which case I want reparations for the many more white indentured servants in Jamestown. Oddly, the first legally recognized slavery in Virginia, the Johnson/Casor case of 1654, was one of those original black indenturees claiming the ownership of another black man. So tell me again, who was responsible for slavery?
May 14, 2007, 4:30 pm