Indentured servitude and slavery were two different things. You would think someone in the kind of trouble he is in would be more careful in his word choice.
Indentured servitude and slavery were two different things. You would think someone in the kind of trouble he is in would be more careful in his word choice.
Indentured servitude and slavery were two different things. You would think someone in the kind of trouble he is in would be more careful in his word choice.
Indentured servitude and slavery were two different things. You would think someone in the kind of trouble he is in would be more careful in his word choice.
Technically he was correct, the original Africans brought over in 1619 were indentured servants and were later freed.
Edit: Slavery didn't begin until a couple decades after.
Technically he was correct, the original Africans brought over in 1619 were indentured servants and were later freed.
Edit: Slavery didn't begin until a couple decades after.
Northam: "I'm not going anywhere". Calls slaves, "indentured servants"
Northam didn't seem to realize that distinction because when the reported said "also known as slavery" he replied "yes". He can't afford to be lackadaisical in his word choice right now.
OMG! Talk about putting lipstick on a pig! The man actually referred to slavery as "indentured servitude." WTH was he thinking?
Colonial America had both, and the two statuses were not at all identical. Under indentured servitude, one's term of servitude lawfully and in both effect and substance ended when one's debt (hence the word "indenture") had, by one's labor or otherwise, been paid. Enslaved individuals, on the other hand, saw their term of servitude end only upon (1) their death, (2) their master's emancipatory magnanimity, or (3) their successfully absconding.
OMG! Talk about putting lipstick on a pig! The man actually referred to slavery as "indentured servitude." WTH was he thinking?
Indentured servitude and slavery were two different things. You would think someone in the kind of trouble he is in would be more careful in his word choice.
The level of hubris is inexplicable. Northam is refusing to leave and in an attempt to kick off his 3-year apology and redemption tour, he sat down with Gayle King-a black woman- and discussed Virginia's history of "indentured servitude".
Ralph Northam interview: Virginia governor tells Gayle King "I'm not going anywhere" in face of calls to resign - CBS News
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: Well it has been a difficult week. And you know if you look at Virginia's history we are now at the 400 year anniversary, just 90 miles from here in 1619. The first indentured servants from Africa landed on our shores in Old Point Comfort what we call now Fort Monroe and while--
GAYLE KING: Also known as slavery.
GAYLE KING: And why you think you still deserve this job and so many people are calling for you to step down?
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: Well again we- we have worked very hard. We've had a good first year. And and I'm a leader. I've been in some very difficult situations. Life and death situations taking care of sick children. And right now--
GAYLE KING: Because you're a doctor, yes?
GOV. RALPH NORTHAM: --right now, Virginia needs someone that can heal. There's no better person to do that than a doctor. Virginia also needs someone who is strong, who has empathy, who has courage and who has a moral compass. And that's why I'm not going anywhere. I have learned from this. I have a lot more to learn. But we're in a unique opportunity now. Again the 400 year anniversary of the history whether it be good or bad in Virginia to really make some impactful changes--
The only people who really care about this are the Dems. So the question is...will this convoluted rhetoric satisfy them? I think it will. Especially since the Dems are willing to throw the Lt. Gov. to the dogs. Fairfax is the sacrificial lamb to mollify the angered Dems.
The only people who really care about this are the Dems. So the question is...will this convoluted rhetoric satisfy them? I think it will. Especially since the Dems are willing to throw the Lt. Gov. to the dogs. Fairfax is the sacrificial lamb to mollify the angered Dems.
He didn't. Gayle King did.
If you read his comments, you would realize he didn't refer to slavery as indentured servitude. It was Gayle King that conflated the two.
BTW, I'm so hoping for a the full Kavanaugh treatment of Fairfax, complete with Handmaid's Tale harpies and Alyssa Milano giving Fairfax the death ray stare.
I didn't read his comments. I listened to and watched him utter them in the video.
Northam referred to Blacks who arrived in 1619 as "indentured servants." Ms. King said "also known as slavery." (Poor diction because people weren't known as "slavery," they were known as "slaves.") The governor immediately responded verbally and nodded, "Yes."
Northam's "yes" indicated he acceded to and accepted the legitimacy of the so-called (by you) conflation as being equivalent to his original diction, "indentured servants." Northam didn't have to do that. He could have, by stating something having to do with VA's slavery laws not having been enacted until 1661, clarified and highlighted the context of his "indentured servitude" classification, but he didn't.
Northam didn't seem to realize that distinction because when the reported said "also known as slavery" he replied "yes". He can't afford to be lackadaisical in his word choice right now.
Not being careful in his word choice is what got him where he stands now.
...Where I was previously of a mind to give Northam a chance to demonstrate he's not still governed in part by provincial views and poor judgement, I see now that he remains thus hobbled. He needs to go.
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