If Shabazz were aware of all of the great things some "crackers" actually did to help end slavery and the oppression of blacks in the U.S. and to help them get the civil rights they deserved, he might not be so angry. But I can forgive him because he's a victim of revisionist history and hate-group rhetoric - seemingly ignorant of the efforts of white individuals to rid this society of discrimination, prejudice and racism.
Africans came to America against their will, abducted and sold by Muslim slavers in Africa to Dutch traders bound for America starting back in 1619. But this tragic beginning notwithstanding, black Americans overcame slavery and oppression with the help of some great individuals, black and white.
"From the moment the first slave ship arrived in the British colonies in America, so very many white people were against the concept of enslaving humans, so much so that numerous abolitionist groups formed. White people worked tirelessly to not only free the slaves but educate blacks as well," says Amy Reid, of the New Jersey Frederick Douglass Foundation and the Pennsylvania Conservative Council.
Surely Shabazz wouldn't hate British member of Parliament William Wilberforce, who made it his life's work to help abolish slavery in England, finally achieving that with the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807.
Would Shabazz hate President Thomas Jefferson, who signed a bill in 1807 permanently prohibiting "the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States," making the slave trade illegal in the United States?
Would Shabazz hate President John Quincy Adams, the "hell-hound of abolition" who successfully defended the mutinous slaves of the Spanish slave ship La Amistad, eventually helping them earn their freedom and return to Africa?
