The word "slave" comes from "Slav," because so many Eastern Europeans were kidnapped and placed into bondage by the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Muslims on the other side of the Mediterranean (off the Barbary Coast) also kidnapped an estimated 2.6 million Europeans, who were sent as slaves into North Africa. Thomas Jefferson actually sent the navy to fight them in Tripoli.

So it's staggering to me that our very word for slave is a reference to "white people" [Slavs], yet kids are being taught by Cultural Marxists in schools that "whites were never slaves".

See etymology of the word: "Slave, late 13c., "person who is the chattel or property of another," from Old French esclave (13c.), from Medieval Latin Sclavus "slave" (source also of Italian schiavo, French esclave, Spanish esclavo), originally "Slav" (see Slav); so used in this secondary sense because of the many Slavs sold into slavery." Source: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=slave

What kids aren't taught in school: While slavery has existed in every land and every continent, the West has the distinction of being the only civilization in history to ban slavery as a moral evil. So it is stunning that the one people who banned it are held uniquely responsible for it in academic institutions. (Even while all the other cultures outside the west engaged in it centuries earlier and are still engaging in it. There are more slaves in 2017 than there were in 1860, in places like the Sudan and Dubai.) Yet not a word from the Left. Because it goes against their narrative.

• Footnote: Watch how the Left embeds lies and propaganda into seemingly unrelated articles to brainwash the public into accepting pseudo-history as fact. A search for the cause of tornadoes surely shouldn't dredge up propaganda, right? Watch here: "The United States has its fair share of unique, utterly American features. Yellowstone's billowing geysers are a pretty standard image of the U.S. The geologic majesty of the Grand Canyon also comes to mind. Really big pancakes? Yeah, Americans love those. But there are also more disconcerting North American traditions -- the systematic racism of slavery, for instance. And don't forget about the natural disasters that seem to camp out on this little corner of the globe." Source: http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/natural-disasters/do-tornadoes-only-occur-in-north-america.htm Let's re-examine the paragraph: It starts with talking about the UNIQUE, "utterly American" characteristics of the United States. Then it goes on to mention slavery, implying that the United States invented it, and it existed nowhere else. (Kind of what "unique" means.) Kind of like how Yellowstone is uniquely in the United States. Or how the Grand Canyon is uniquely in America. So, according to the person who wrote the article, the West isn't unique for banning slavery, but it somehow . . . invented it? WTF! This is what our kids are being taught?