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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRep. Yvette Clarke from Brooklyn wants the Dutch slaves in Brooklyn to be freed in 1898
Last edited Wed Sep 5, 2012, 09:50 AM - Edit history (1)
She's a little historically challenged. She was just on Colbert. She said that if she went back to 1898 she would want to be set free. Colbert asked from what. She said "slavery." Colbert asked who would be enslaving her. She said "the Dutch."
Her idiocy will get headlines soon.
Edit: Village Voice is already on it: http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/09/yvette_clark.php
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Confusious
(8,317 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)anyone that stupid running for political office, let alone holding it.
foo_bar
(4,193 posts)I haven't seen the Colbert clip, and I can't speak to her familiarity with US history, but... I voted for her in '06/08 so I'm a little biased, but she's among the most progressive voices in Congress:
Clarke is an advocate for the empowerment of women and minorities and introduced legislation that resulted in the Council's Minority & Women-Owned Business Empowerment (MWBE) study that that found women and minority-owned businesses are not awarded their fair share of city contracts. This finding forced New York City to end its system of economic discrimination. As co-chair of the New York Council's Women's Caucus, Clarke secured $9.5 million in funding for organizations that addressed the issues of domestic violence prevention, breast cancer awareness, housing and HIV/AIDS counseling for women.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Clarke
http://clarke.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=282690
http://keywiki.org/index.php/Yvette_Clarke
http://www.ontheissues.org/NY/Yvette_Clarke_Principles_+_Values.htm
"It's akin to apartheid," Clarke said. "And that tramples on the civil rights and civil liberties of everyone."
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/94817-democratic-lawmaker-arizona-immigration-law-like-apartheid
eShirl
(18,509 posts)I think it was English by 1698 though.
great,now I have that song in my head...
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...
Renew Deal
(81,900 posts)Well played!
DLine
(397 posts)Fla Dem
(23,887 posts)the Dutch did have a hand in bringing slaves to New York:
"The British took over in 1664, and control of the colony passed to the Duke of York, who, with his cronies, held controlling interest in the Royal African Company. The change of name from New Netherland to New York brought a crucial shift in policy. Whereas the Dutch had used slavery as part of their colonial policy, the British used the colony as a market for slaves. "The Duke's representatives in New York -- governors, councilors, and customs officials -- were instructed to promote the importation of slaves by every possible means."[5]
From 1701 to 1726, officially, some 1,570 slaves were imported from the West Indies and another 802 from Africa. As it had under the Dutch, the colony continued to import relatively few slaves from Africa directly, except occasional cargoes of children under 13. The actual numbers were much higher, because smugglers made liberal use of the long, convoluted coast of Long Island. In some years illegal shipment of slaves on a single vessel outnumbered the official imports to the whole colony.
As a result, New York soon had had the largest colonial slave population north of Maryland. From about 2,000 in 1698, the number of the colony's black slaves swelled to more than 9,000 adults by 1746 and 13,000 by 1756."
http://www.slavenorth.com/newyork.htm