A PIECE OF BLACK HISTORY NOBODY EVER MENTIONS | 2005-04-28
The Mayflower, the ship which every history book tells you founded English America, arrived in Massachusetts in October of 1620.
Descendants of "people who came over on the Mayflower" make a VERY big thing about how their forefathers founded America. They were the Pilgrim Fathers.
The year before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock, John Smith wrote that "twenty niggurs" had arrived in Virginia.
Since John Smith was a British subject he could be prosecuted on his use of Hate Speech by spelling it "niggurs." But I have to warn the British authorities, if they want to get John Smith from where he is now to London, the extradition procedures will be awesome.
Those "twenty niggurs" were not slaves. They were indentured, like so many white men were. It would be over a generation before black slavery was legalized in Virginia. In fact, Massachusetts legalized slavery before Virginia did.
Those "twenty niggurs" came here as free men, a year before the Pilgrim Fathers founded this country.
No "black leader" has ever mentioned this.
No "black leader" ever will.