Every school teacher of every level in the USA and beyond should have to read this essay, incorporate it in their teaching, and assign it to all the students capable of reading at this level. Just a superlative read.
This is a great piece. When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, most of this was understood. I was taught about the horrors of slavery in grade school and High School, but I was also taught about the courageous people, both black and white, who tried to end it, who tried to show their fellow humans how wrong and immoral the institution of slavery was, which could not have been easy in an environment where no one had ever known any other way. After college, this started to shift, and in the late 90's and 2000's I started to feel ashamed of being white, for what my country had done long before I was born. Thanks to the internet, I was reminded of all the things you outline above in the past 10 years or so but I hesitate to discuss it with my more "liberal" friends who think the founders were evil and we should do away with the constitution because it was written by white slaveholders. Amazing how people can't understand the environment those men were living in and what they were trying to do, despite their flaws and the strong push to keep things as they were (i.e. the slave trade was a fact of life for thousands of years before even they were born). Anyway, thanks for this and I wish more people would read and understand the real history of slavery and we could get back to the understanding that was there 40 years ago.
“But challenge the narrative, and you threaten those who profit from division.”
For many years, we have witnessed the organized efforts to divide humanity. Why? Because if they divide, they can quietly conquer. They gain control and power. So thank you for your efforts in raising awareness on these important topics that so desperately need the voice of truth and reason. But one man cannot do it alone. I hope you will inspire others to do their research. Our country has never needed it more.
I'm a mixed-race American with pale skin and red hair, one of the exceptions in my black-haired family. One branch of my family ran the Indians down the Trail of Tears, and another branch married them at the end of the trail. I tell people my left hand gives a land acknowledgement (the biggest "Sorry, not sorry" ever) to my right hand every morning, and then both hands go out and be American.
NO society develops a conscience about anything until it is convenient to do so. Slavery was universal before the industrial revolution made it convenient for a few societies to discover the atrocity of it.
Right now, I'm far more concerned about the slavery that went into my phone, my computer, and every other bit of electronics that we are, at this point, forced to use to get by in the world as it is. I only hope it will become convenient for the world to develop a conscience about that some day, and that we will no longer prop up self-righteous societies on the backs of slaves.
Finally, you tell the truth and put everything into perspective. I was taught all of this that you wrote about in this essay in school long ago, my parents told me believe half of what you see and non of what you hear until you can prove it. Thank you, Clear Thinker, you are an amazing person!
Brilliant piece, Kaizen. I can’t afford too many paid subscriptions in Substack, but this one convinced me that it was time to finally subscribe. Keep up the good work, and I’ll work in your campaign office whenever want.
Kaizen, this essay is more than brilliant and I love you man! And since you're searching for truth, I think it might be helpful to insert a missing variable that somehow gets inconspicuously missed in many conversations about slavery, and that variable is the illicit drug trade that the British Empire was pursuing during their reign as the global slave trader that they were. History shows us that the British Empire completely dominated this illicit drug trading immediately following their termination of slave trading which, in their minds, was a far more efficient way to expand their empire. In other words, it was difficult transporting slaves from one location to another when they could much easier transport the debilitating drugs to the country of their choice making the conquering of that location much easier and faster. Today in 2026, the illicit drug trade and international money laundering is so much larger than most people understand. Before Lyndon LaRouche died, he estimated the drug cartel wealth at $40-$70 trillion dollars! Robert Ingraham writes some really interesting books on the subject. So, I ask you now in 2026, has much changed since the British changed their cargo from slaves to drugs? I don't think so. The globalist empire-building community's voice seems as strong as ever doesn't it? Didn't Davos just occur this past week? Isn't the U.K. putting people in jail today for mean tweeting? Aren't most young people living from paycheck to paycheck with very little hope of ever buying a home? I argue that not much has changed because the empire building mindset never actually died, it just changed its cargo. I know that correlating illicit drugs to the alleged end of slavery may seem like a stretch, but doesn't our current situation at least sniff a little like slavery with weed cologne on? :)
Excellent analysis! I so appreciate Kaizen’s careful nuanced work and critical thinking, not just in this essay but in everything I have seen and read so far. Relating to this article, the only “criticism” (and it is not really criticism but a suggestion) is that I would have loved to read some analysis on “Why the British empire?”, as opposed to every other society in history that endorsed slavery. For that question, I would highly recommend the movie "Amazing Grace" about the life of William Wilberforce who was the key figure in the abolishment of the slave trade in the British Empire. It was his evangelical Christian faith that motivated him in this lifelong pursuit! As a matter of fact, this essay motivated me to write and post an article in my own new Substack that attempts to delve into “Why the British Empire?” more deeply. See here if interested: https://davegreear.substack.com/p/why-the-west-ended-slavery?r=2ybb45&triedRedirect=true
Every school teacher of every level in the USA and beyond should have to read this essay, incorporate it in their teaching, and assign it to all the students capable of reading at this level. Just a superlative read.
This is a great piece. When I was growing up in the 70's and 80's, most of this was understood. I was taught about the horrors of slavery in grade school and High School, but I was also taught about the courageous people, both black and white, who tried to end it, who tried to show their fellow humans how wrong and immoral the institution of slavery was, which could not have been easy in an environment where no one had ever known any other way. After college, this started to shift, and in the late 90's and 2000's I started to feel ashamed of being white, for what my country had done long before I was born. Thanks to the internet, I was reminded of all the things you outline above in the past 10 years or so but I hesitate to discuss it with my more "liberal" friends who think the founders were evil and we should do away with the constitution because it was written by white slaveholders. Amazing how people can't understand the environment those men were living in and what they were trying to do, despite their flaws and the strong push to keep things as they were (i.e. the slave trade was a fact of life for thousands of years before even they were born). Anyway, thanks for this and I wish more people would read and understand the real history of slavery and we could get back to the understanding that was there 40 years ago.
“But challenge the narrative, and you threaten those who profit from division.”
For many years, we have witnessed the organized efforts to divide humanity. Why? Because if they divide, they can quietly conquer. They gain control and power. So thank you for your efforts in raising awareness on these important topics that so desperately need the voice of truth and reason. But one man cannot do it alone. I hope you will inspire others to do their research. Our country has never needed it more.
Just Wow, that was excellent.
A great re-education of what we've been taught to believe.
Fantastic essay! Thank you. I just subscribed.
I'm a mixed-race American with pale skin and red hair, one of the exceptions in my black-haired family. One branch of my family ran the Indians down the Trail of Tears, and another branch married them at the end of the trail. I tell people my left hand gives a land acknowledgement (the biggest "Sorry, not sorry" ever) to my right hand every morning, and then both hands go out and be American.
NO society develops a conscience about anything until it is convenient to do so. Slavery was universal before the industrial revolution made it convenient for a few societies to discover the atrocity of it.
Right now, I'm far more concerned about the slavery that went into my phone, my computer, and every other bit of electronics that we are, at this point, forced to use to get by in the world as it is. I only hope it will become convenient for the world to develop a conscience about that some day, and that we will no longer prop up self-righteous societies on the backs of slaves.
Finally, you tell the truth and put everything into perspective. I was taught all of this that you wrote about in this essay in school long ago, my parents told me believe half of what you see and non of what you hear until you can prove it. Thank you, Clear Thinker, you are an amazing person!
Brilliant piece, Kaizen. I can’t afford too many paid subscriptions in Substack, but this one convinced me that it was time to finally subscribe. Keep up the good work, and I’ll work in your campaign office whenever want.
Stay safe young man, we need you!
Great stuff! Inspired me to subscribe! Keep up the honest truth telling!
Same!!
Bravo! Been reading you for a while and I subscribed after that sterling essay. Dear God, kind sir. You covered it from all angles. Thank you!
Kaizen, this essay is more than brilliant and I love you man! And since you're searching for truth, I think it might be helpful to insert a missing variable that somehow gets inconspicuously missed in many conversations about slavery, and that variable is the illicit drug trade that the British Empire was pursuing during their reign as the global slave trader that they were. History shows us that the British Empire completely dominated this illicit drug trading immediately following their termination of slave trading which, in their minds, was a far more efficient way to expand their empire. In other words, it was difficult transporting slaves from one location to another when they could much easier transport the debilitating drugs to the country of their choice making the conquering of that location much easier and faster. Today in 2026, the illicit drug trade and international money laundering is so much larger than most people understand. Before Lyndon LaRouche died, he estimated the drug cartel wealth at $40-$70 trillion dollars! Robert Ingraham writes some really interesting books on the subject. So, I ask you now in 2026, has much changed since the British changed their cargo from slaves to drugs? I don't think so. The globalist empire-building community's voice seems as strong as ever doesn't it? Didn't Davos just occur this past week? Isn't the U.K. putting people in jail today for mean tweeting? Aren't most young people living from paycheck to paycheck with very little hope of ever buying a home? I argue that not much has changed because the empire building mindset never actually died, it just changed its cargo. I know that correlating illicit drugs to the alleged end of slavery may seem like a stretch, but doesn't our current situation at least sniff a little like slavery with weed cologne on? :)
Superb!
Excellent analysis! I so appreciate Kaizen’s careful nuanced work and critical thinking, not just in this essay but in everything I have seen and read so far. Relating to this article, the only “criticism” (and it is not really criticism but a suggestion) is that I would have loved to read some analysis on “Why the British empire?”, as opposed to every other society in history that endorsed slavery. For that question, I would highly recommend the movie "Amazing Grace" about the life of William Wilberforce who was the key figure in the abolishment of the slave trade in the British Empire. It was his evangelical Christian faith that motivated him in this lifelong pursuit! As a matter of fact, this essay motivated me to write and post an article in my own new Substack that attempts to delve into “Why the British Empire?” more deeply. See here if interested: https://davegreear.substack.com/p/why-the-west-ended-slavery?r=2ybb45&triedRedirect=true
Thank you, sir.