On June 19th, 1865, the last chattel slaves of African origin or ancestry were freed in Texas, marking the end of officially government sanctioned slavery in the US. Many today celebrate this event (“Juneteenth”). Juneteenth has, in fact, become increasingly popular as a day of remembrance. And rightly so. Slavery was a blight on the world, and on the USA.

It’s important to remember that. The “woke” use this day as an excuse to spread their religious ideals, such as they are, which is extraordinarily distasteful, but that doesn’t change the fact that, by any humane standard, the end of slavery in the USA was an unadulterated good.

The Continued Legacy of American Slavery

However, before we celebrate, and pretend that this issue is about the treatment of one particular race at one particular time, we need to examine the fact that, actually, slaves were also imported from Europe, notably England and Ireland. Furthermore, while officially state sanctioned slavery has ended, human trafficking continues to be a major problem.

There are thousands of prosecutions of human trafficking in the USA, annually. This means that there are likely tens of thousands of cases that go unreported. Slave traders imported chattel slaves from Africa to the US in numbers ranging between 30,000 and 60,000, annually. This means that American human trafficking today likely rivals chattel slavery at its height.

It is good that the government no longer officially sanctions it. However, officially sanctioned or not, we know that the CIA controls most organized crime in the USA today.

Modern Slavery and the American Political System

In the Epstein case, we saw strong evidence that many prominent people in the USA, including several politicians, were associated with an underage sex ring. Jeffrey Epstein is suspected to have been a CIA operative. Allegedly, he filmed prominent figures in compromising positions with minors in order to gain leverage on behalf of his organization. Among his clients were the Clintons and a number of Barack Obama’s donors and staff members.

Underage sex trafficking is easily one of the most egregious forms of slavery. Yet, in this day and age, where slavery is supposedly a thing of the past, not only is it going on, but our leaders are participating in it.

Saddest of all, the African American voter used their freedom to vote for these particular politicians at a rate of 90% or more. Wokeists who use America’s slave owning past as a soapbox to declare their own moral superiority are among the most responsible for propping up the people who continue to practice slavery behind the scenes today.

Some Considerations on Juneteenth

When we take things in perspective, we have to admit that what America did to African slaves was not historically unique. What’s worse, we continue to do similar things today. While we should celebrate the end of African slavery in the USA, it’s nothing for us to stump on. We are not now superior to who our ancestors were then. Let’s clean up our act. We need to stop using this celebration as cheap ammunition in the culture war. Slavery persists, and it has little, if anything, to do with race.