This KURW series is a special request for Black History Month.

• Part 1 (previous post): Black History Month, White Holidays, Juneteenth & Violence
• Part 2 (this post): Slavery & Reparations
• Part 3 (coming March 2022): Systemic Racism, White Privilege
• Part 4 Black Public Figures, Bigotry & Racists

This series of posts for Black History Month features those on Hatewatch by KURW at the Deny & Distance stage and include veterans, law enforcement, business owners, public officials and public employees.

As always, use KURW Reforming Extremists on Hatewatch as a resource to help reduce extremism & bigotry. The fourth section of this resource explains the 3 Ss and 3Ds to use as a guide for conversations of bigotry.

• The 3 Ss : Slavery, Segregation, Slammer (mine, Michelle Galaria)
• The 3 Ds: Deny, Distance, Dismantle (APA article by Brian Lowery, PhD.)

PART 2 content is categorized into SIX sections and engaged over 120 people.

1. Thank White People for ending slavery
2. Don’t Blame White People for Slavery
3. Blame Africans, GOD, and Everyone Else
4. What About White Slaves
5. Slavery is irrelevant, no one alive today was a slave or slave owner
6. Modern slavery: Invoking Slavery in relation to BLM Protests 2020 and Covid restrictions

Red font in the list below indicates Meet Your Neighbors: Red Level. Spouse names are in parenthesis if there is no evidence of extremism/bigotry. The spouse name which appears first is the subject of this post unless couples share one Facebook page. This section was updated 02/19/2022.

1/6. THANK WHITE PEOPLE

“If you’re black and not a slave, thank a white man…they abolished African slavery & Arab Muslims invented”

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“Over 600,000 white Americans died to free black slaves…overlooked & not taught in liberal schools”

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“White people ended slavery, they did not invent it”

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“No people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans…We hear the grievances, where is the gratitude? It was here that 600,000 black people brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40,000,000 and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known…”

2/6. DON’T BLAME WHITE PEOPLE

“Blaming white people for enslaving black people is not only wrong and immoral but it also instills racism in people and makse them thing that this persons ancestors enslaved my ancestors and that is why I am in this situation”

• Black tribes sold black people to the white man
• White supremacist, liberal, fascists can stfu instead of protesting for BLM because they don’t protest ‘black on black crime’ but destroy black businesses when black thug murdered by a cop

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“Please do not lay all of the sins of slavery on the “whites” of a country involved only a short time”

• Historically, blacks owned and sold blacks; whites owned and sold whites, then only 5% of slaves were transported to America.
• Whites didn’t just go pluck them out of the jungle…Africans sold them and had thriving slave trade since the beginning
• Black Lives Matter promotes the very thing that is killing blacks: Democratic leaders (via ActBlue) of cities with black communities suffering under a welfare state & ‘black-on-black crime’.
• Black Lives Matter is simply anti-law enforcement, anti-white, racist, increases killing of cops and does nothing for the black community.

The people who liked Watson’s post (their images above, links below)

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“I never cared what color you were until you started BLAMING MY ANCESTORS for your problems, but now I care, my patience & tolerance are gone”

The people who posted “Intolerance”

The people who support the “Intolerance” post by Crosby, Chavez & Riding

Links to select KURW posts featuring the people who liked this INTOLERANCE post. This post was featured in an older KURW post Bigotry LGBTQ+ (Part 1 of 3, so for the most recent detailed evidence see :

• Meet Your Neighbors: Red Level (James Bermant “Kanab Beamer”, Jeff Schwilk, Kenneth Guinn, Bob Riding, Susan Sanders, Byard Kershaw)
• Kane County Commissioner Calls Kanab Patriots a Hate Group, But They Are Not the Fringe (Byard Kershaw, Jeff Schwilk)
• KURW Business Directory of Extremism & Bigotry (Lacey Connor, Ada Chatterley, Tez Lyons, Joy Downen, Vicky Romero, Jayme Church)
• Kanab Veterans Bigotry/Extremism (Clifford Smart, Jeff Schwilk)
• Meet the Kanab Patriots (last names A-C) (Celeste Cram, James Bermant)
• Racial Bigotry Part 1: Black History Month, Juneteenth, White Holidays & Violence (Randy Archbold, James Bermant, Brenda Button, Kelly Demello, Kenneth Guinn, Jeff Schwilk, Polly White)

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“Blaming a white child for is like blaming a Japanese child for Pearl Harbor”

The people who liked the post above by Bennett Brooks

Links to other KURW posts which include the people above.

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“It is RIDICULOUS to blame ANYONE alive today (the innocent) for slavery…, just like blaming Japanese child for Pearl Harbor”

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“We can’t blame every Islamic person for 9/11 just like we can’t keep blaming slavery & racism on every white person”

“To the white people apologizing for the past, speak for yourself, I did nothing to apologize for.

Supporters of White’s post above

3/6. BLAME AFRICANS, GOD, AND EVERYONE ELSE

“Africans did it first…whites evolved and ended slavery…Africans have been coming to terms with their own complicity”

Supporters of DeMello’s post above

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“America did nothing unusual. Every conquering culture throughout history & across the globe enslaved the conquered. ”

Supporters of Seilhammer’s post above

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“Don’t make it sound like only America had them…everyone, since the dawn of time…still today, mostly in Muslim countries.”

Supporters of Bermant’s post above

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“GOD allowed [slavery] for a reason…he set [African slaves] free from bondage, provided deliverance for them in miraculous ways time after time, ONLY to hear complaining and whining. So, let that be a lesson to us.”

4/6. IRRELEVANT, NO ONE TODAY WAS A SLAVE OR A SLAVE OWNER

“I’ve never met a single black American who was a slave or a single white American that was a slave owner. I’ve only come across lazy people…human parasites, in every race”

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“Life is what you make of it, not your ancestors. There are no slave owners or slaves still living in America…no one owes you anything…”

Supporters of Riding’s post above:

SAME AS PREVIOUS “Life is what you make of it, not your ancestors. There are no slave owners or slaves still living in America…no one owes you anything…”

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“Absurdity…people held responsible for things that happened before they were born…”

Supporters of Maddux’s post above

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“I never owned slaves and you never picked any cotton…I don’t owe you shit”

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SAME AS ABOVE “I never owned slaves and you never picked any cotton…I don’t owe you shit”

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“I’ve never owned or been a slave & neither have you…not a victim, get over it”

“No one in America today is responsible OR accountable for what occurred beyond our lifetimes. ”

Supporters of Seilhammer’s post above

5/6. IT WASN’T JUST BLACK PEOPLE & SLAVE PRIVILEGE

“Slaves can be of privilege, too”

Supporter of Lyons’ post above:

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“You’re not special, WHITE SLAVES were sold for centuries!”

“Stop trying to make people feel guilty for things the did not do, everyone’s ancestors took, sold or were slaves…”

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“Irish slaves were treated a whole lot worse than the black slaves, but you don’t hear the Irish wining and complaining about something that never happened to them or anyone in their lifetime”

Supporters of Johnson’s post above

“If you are still struggling with slavery, then I’m still struggling with when Vikings invaded England in the 8th century and enslaved my relatives. …I blame all of my current failures on Vikings ”

Supporters of Seilhammer’s post above

6/6. MODERN SLAVERY: BLM PROTESTS 2020 AND COVID RESTRICTIONS

1/4. “[they] are marching us into slavery. We have been slaves for many many years…” (covid & masks)

Supporter of Bisegna’s comment above

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2/4. “Why am I responsible for things people did 200 years ago but rioters & looters are not responsible for their actions 2020?”

Supporters of Beardall’s post above:

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3/4. “They won’t stop until all races are slaves to BLM”

4/4. “Break the Chains of Slavery, combat a tyrannical government….more people in slavery today than at any other time in history!”

Promoter and supporters of Shawna Cox’s class from above: