Nobody Remembers James Monroe and Liberia

Nobody Remembers

Liberia…Libya…I get those two mixed up.

So, here’s how to tell them apart: They are both in Africa (Can you tell that I did NOT take Africa studies in college?) but one has Hillary Clinton all over it, the other has Ebola, and James Monroe.

Today, Nobody Remembers…James Monroe.

Since Obama likes to go back to our slavery problem about as much as he likes to go back to our gun problem. Once upon a time, we did have a President who was trying to find a way to get rid of slavery., which of course was VERY hard to do, since the whole South’s economy was based on the production of cotton. Thanks to Whitney and Fulton, the whole WORLD was just loving our cheap cotton. Just like now the whole WORLD loves Zuckerburg’s Facebook, and he needs MORE cheap slave workers…

But that’s another blog.

President James Monroe was a good guy by all accounts, and decided to…solve the slave problem by just shipping them back to Africa. He did managed to send a few thousand or more, but he had a big problem:

Most of them didn’t WANT to go back to Africa.

From The History of the American People:

Monroe is known to history chiefly as the author of the Monroe doctrine (John Quincy Adams was, but that’s another blog) (1823). He ought to be better known for his promotion of the scheme to solve the slavery problem by repatriating freed blacks to Africa. This was not just a humbugging tactical move on the part of conscience-stricken slave owners like himself. It was also backed by the powerful Evangelical anti-slavery lobby in Britain, who set up the first repatriation colony in Sierra Leone. So it was a “liberal” solution, or seemed so at that time. In 1819 Monroe supported Congressional legislation to set up a similar, American sponsored colony in Africa to be called Liberia. Its capital was named Monrovia after him. Some freed slaves did go to Liberia, where they immediately set themselves up as a ruling caste over the local Africans, a prime source of the country’s poverty and its ferocious civil wars, which continue to this day. American blacks seen to have realize instinctively that it would not work, that they were better off in America even as slaves than in Africa. They were scared of being sent there. Ten years after its foundation, Madison sold sixteen of his able-bodied slaves to a kinsman for $6,000, they giving “their glad consent” because of “their horror of Liberia.”

Of course, the South fought it. In 1844, Bishops John England of Charleston provided an elaborate theological justification to ease the consciences of Catholic slave owners.

So, there you go. A president TRIED to send them back to Africa, but they didn’t want to go, even if it meant their FREEDOM….and I have a suspicion that today, it wouldn’t be any different. Blacks here in the United States, for all their troubles, are well-fed, well-housed, and get vast government welfare. If Oprah Winfrey offered to take them all on a big cruise ship, never to return…I doubt she could fill the boat.

What does this all mean?

How about this: To stop the gun violence on the South Side of Chicago for starters, we don’t need new gun laws, we just need to pass a law that ANY black that murders someone with a gun, WILL be sent back to Africa, never to return to our country. After all, they might like it there, and fit right in. Crime and murder are big there too.

I bet if we started shipping blacks BACK to Africa after they commit a crime, they might all of a sudden start behaving like humans, instead of idiots.

That’s RACIST you say?

Well, then, whenever a Mexican commits a felony, and he’s illegal, Donald Trump suggest we send them back to Mexico, right? Muslims too. Send them all back. Get them out.

But Joyanna…blacks are citizens…Illegal’s are not. That’s true, but why should we keep these criminals in our country? Other countries send THEIR criminals to us, why don’t we start doing the same? A One way plane ticket would be a heck of lot cheaper than spending millions of dollars keeping them for years in our jails. Not to mention, think of the lives saved.

Liberia is STILL a cesspool of corruption.  America recognized its Independence in 1862, and even though their lives would be MUCH worse than here, in Liberia, most men have four wives.

Even Kanye West would love that. All it takes is ONE rapper to start it off…

In fact, maybe we could call it the new Monroe Doctrine: If you don’t like America…LEAVE.

October 1, 2015 - Posted by Joyanna Adams | American History, Uncategorized | American History, James Monroe