President Joe Biden visited the National Slavery Museum in Angola's capital Luanda on Tuesday, and in a speech he described slavery as America's “original sin” and said it still taints American public discourse. insisted.
“The United States was founded on the idea, enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that all men and women are created equal. It is abundantly clear that we do not live up to that idea today, but we are fully committed to it. It's not out of my mind,” Biden said. said.
biden said Slavery was “cruel, brutal, and dehumanizing” and an “original sin” that “has plagued America and cast a long shadow ever since.”
NBC News noticed Biden said he spoke in the “shadows” of the Annex's former chapel, which once housed slavery, “where Africans were forced to undergo Christian baptism before being loaded onto ships as part of the transatlantic slave trade.” ”.
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NBC added: “The first enslaved Africans to reach 13 British colonies in 1619 are believed to have come from what is now Angola.” Researchers who study the history of slavery say that up to a quarter of the slaves shipped to the United States passed through what is now Angola.
The audience for Biden's speech on slavery included Wanda and Vincent Tucker, descendants of the first two slaves brought from Angola to Virginia in 1619.
“It's an incredible thing to have the president of the United States come to the country where the first enslaved people were taken,” Wanda Tucker said in an interview outside the National Slavery Museum.
“It's even more important because as long as we have the opportunity to tell stories, we have to keep telling history and stories,” she added.
Much of Biden's speech was built around his favorite talking points: that American conservatives want to forget about slavery and ban teachers from talking about it.
“I learned that history can be hidden, but it cannot and should not be erased. We have to face it. Our history, the good, the bad, the ugly, all of it. It's our duty to face the truth. That's what great nations do,” Biden said in his speech.
The most poignant irony is that few Western leaders have done more to restore slavery than Joe Biden. His open border policy explosion Engaged in human trafficking, as even his own administration officials have acknowledged. This includes child sex trafficking, which is undoubtedly a form of slavery.
Young victims trafficked under Joe Biden were subjected to mental and physical torture, including medieval torture such as having their fingernails removed, in addition to large doses of drugs, to force compliance. It says that there are.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) whistleblower said In November 2024, Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris announced the creation of a “white glove delivery service” to divert migrant children into the hands of human traffickers and drug cartels.
“Today, as we speak, children are preparing for grueling night shifts in slaughterhouses, restaurants and factories. Some children may die doing jobs for which they are unskilled,” said whistleblower Tara Lee Rodas.
House Judiciary Committee published November report says foreign nationals involved in human trafficking are taking advantage of the Biden-Harris “parole pipeline” to allow Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to move freely across the border said.
The parole pipeline, officially known as the CHNV program, is a bureaucratic fiction created by the Biden administration to limit the number of migrant encounters with Border Patrol and hide the severity of the border crisis. According to the House Judiciary, the system has proven extremely useful to sex traffickers, who submit large numbers of fraudulent applications from suspicious internet addresses, the majority of which are for young women. It was.
President Biden seemed very familiar with the events of 1619 during his tour of Angola. It is a shame that he did not focus more on events from 2021 to 2024 when he was charged with stopping modern slavery beyond the southern border.
