The Plantation: Then and Now
It’s the 21st century. Slavery is long gone. Blacks are no longer imprisoned on plantations… right? Actually, many are — just not in the way they used to be. Candace Owens issues a wake-up call. It’s time for a new liberation.
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Script:
In the first half of the 19th century four million blacks worked as slaves, imprisoned on plantations in the American South.
They were prevented from learning how to read, their families were forcibly broken up, and if they tried to escape, they were severely and brutally punished.
The owners of these plantations were, almost without exception, Democrats.
Before the Civil War, slave-owning Democrats used black bodies to massively increase the number of votes they got in Congress and the Electoral College. Because of the Three-Fifths Compromise, a single Democrat in Georgia who owned 5 slaves got 4 times the representation as a single white abolitionist in Pennsylvania—who didn’t own any.
So for the Democrats, it has always been about using black bodies for political power. How they are used may vary, but the plantation model remains a constant—even today.
Despite the fact that blacks are no longer enslaved, many black children barely learn to read in poorly performing schools, our families are often shattered by misguided welfare policies, and if we try to escape, we still face punishment.
Of course, the plantations of the 21st century are, not physical, they are virtual.
The owners of these plantations are once again, almost without exception, Democrats.
Think about it—what today are certain areas of Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Milwaukee, and Philadelphia—all run for decades by Democrats—but virtual plantations? Many who live in these areas are largely, if not totally, dependent on their masters, the politicians, for their food, housing, and health care.
It’s hardly a fair exchange. The politicians become wealthy. The residents become vote slaves—sustained (just barely) by government transfer payments.
And just like the plantations of yesteryear, which demanded a consistent breakdown of the black family to reinforce its system of buying and selling slaves, Democrats today incentivize similar family corrosion through their policies, fostering dependence—not on mom and dad—but on the government. To give just one example, virtually every inner-city school provides free breakfast and lunch. Sounds generous, but, what it really does is remove the traditional responsibility from parents by handing it over to the state.
Yet many do break free from this oppressive system. Like the fugitive slave, Frederick Douglass once did, they run toward a better life.
But leaving the plantation still entails great risk. Of course today it’s not the whip or the lash, it’s libel and slander. The purpose is to bring black conservatives within an inch of their professional and sometimes personal lives—a warning that rebellion will not be tolerated.
Don’t believe it? Just ask Dr. Ben Carson, Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell, or Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to cite three prominent examples.
Carson, one of the most celebrated brain surgeons of the modern era, has been called “stupid” by the legacy media because he has conservative political views.
Thomas Sowell, who went to Harvard and taught at Cornell, Amherst, and UCLA, and may be the nation’s most brilliant economist, has largely been ignored while many lesser lights have been celebrated.
Clarence Thomas, one of the luminous legal minds of our time, was the victim of a massive smear campaign during his nomination to the Supreme Court. Because of his conservative views, his reputation was dragged through the media mud.
This is how he described the experience.
“It is a high-tech lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves, to do for themselves, to have different ideas, and it is a message that unless you kowtow to an old order, this is what will happen to you. You will be lynched, destroyed, caricatured…rather than hung from a tree.”
Today’s plantation owners will do anything to hold onto what they see as their property.
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Great video Candace! You as well as those you speak of in your video, Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas etc., are proof when the black man/woman are left alone they are very capable of becoming some of America's top intellectuals, scholars, and leaders. Proving, once again, it is not about color. They are Americans. This is the TRUE meaning of strength in diversity. Not tribalism, not the black man vs white man, not every group heading off in their own direction with separate goals but rather each treading their own path but with the same goals in mind, the same values, the same core ideals. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. This is America!
Wow. Seeing all of the affirming commentary below in support of this video is really sad. I hope Candace will one day wake up and smell the roses, because she's dreaming!!!!
Imagine being so evil that you argue against school giving lunch 💀
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"So for democrats it has always been about using black bodies for political power"Hard to agree
https://youtu.be/qeAw4xfnB2g?si=_pTYhGCzVmUq_N8g
So explain to me how it is Republicans have so gerrymandered 'red' states as to disenfranchise those of color in their states, IF the Republican party is so damned colorblind? From 2010 to 2020, over 90% of the population growth in Texas was from people of color, yet, majority African American districts went from 2 to ZERO. Latino districts were reduced by one. Florida, Wisconsin, Alabama—all the same. I can hear the Republican responses now—'we don't look at color, we look at population distribution and political affiliation'. If that's true, why is the result always the same? Why do Republicans vehemently oppose districts being apportioned by independent commissions?
This comment is so frightening. It’s genuinely scary how many people think any of this makes sense.
According to Thomas Sowell, black families were more intact under slavery than in American society today.
You, and others, say that these people were, ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, Democrats. But, you never tell us who wasn't a Democrat. I don't believe you.
I was permanently banned by TGP/Disqus for making this same analogy. They said that I was racist.
How fitting it will be when the Black Vote is decisive in their demise.
Wake up my brown friends. Get off the Dem plantation once and for all.
Get help
Don't buy this bull crap revision of a tragic history from prager university. Please watch the Ken Burns 20 year old documentary The Civil War to get an accurate and truthful account of American history at that time. Candace Owen is a shameless toady for far right political agenda for the 2021st century.
Wow! What an eye-opening perspective. It's funny how FACTS can do that, isn't it? It's truly a shame today's "plantation owners" would NEVER allow the general population to see this perspective. Well done Candace, and well done PragerU!
Well done Candace!😊
Well done candace!
Must be saying the truth, there are a lot of haters here. Going to have to listen to her more. Corrupt politicians are in both parties though, that is why there are only two. Absolute power leads to absolute corruption. Vote for those who are honest, strong, intelligent, and have nothing to gain except a better society, and much to lose personally if they fail.
as always, simply superb! You tell the truth, and perfectly, bluntly, and thus, if we will listen, we can stand up.
Candace Owens is one of the most disgusting human beings alive.
Candace is telling you the truth if you if you don’t believe it you’re a fool
Fantastic, Candace! Keep up the good work and NEVER give in to the 'other side'. I am a white conservative who thinks that you are very special. God bless you!
Don't ever trust a conservative. Always stick with the liberal. A liberal republican like Abraham is great. A conservative Democrat is terrible.
I love Candace Owens.
wow! that is telling it like it that is really some serious food for
Dems of the past are the Republicans of today. Youre trying to rewrite history to make a poor point.
Honey you woulda been a house slave saying yes massa very good massa
boy oh boy is this lady good at "misleading" (aka lying). she apparently forgets what happened in the 1960s but let's skip that for now. she seems to forget that southern whites of today (who would be the direct descendants of the "democrats" slave master) are now republicans. and that these southern whites change political parties in the mid-1960s because of the civil right act and the voting rights act passed by the democrats. before the 1960s southern democrats would have wholeheartedly hated the republican party because Lincoln was the republican that freed the slaves. and when these people (southern democrats also known as Dixiecrats) changed parties they took along those racist views and the history of their ancestors' slave masters. so to claim that today's democrats have any connection to slave ownership or as KKK founding is beyond ridiculous.
The 3/5th rule in the Constitution. Jefferson would not allow Slave states to use their slaves, which they claim was property, and not viewed as citizens to be used as pawns to gain greater representation, in Congress. As well, the slaves were not tax as citizen, nor were they land owners who could vote. While non-slave states only had tax paying citizens and land owners voting, and being counted for representation.Slave states could count their slaves both adults and children as part of the census, giving them greater representation in Congress. Because the Southern States (the Slave States) had more slaves, than free white men. So if only the Free Whites were counted…, there would be less representation for the each of the Slaves States. So a deal was made to give the Slave States a 3/5% percentage for each slave, on the census. Indians living on Indians land was not counted.