The definition of poverty in today’s America would be considered wealth to the poorest White children living in the late 1800s of Victorian England:
These harrowing images are part of an unearthed set of photographs from Liverpool taken in the Victorian era.
The pictures paint a bleak portrait of what life was like for the downtrodden children at a time of rapid change in a period of intense industrialization.
Bare-footed, dirt on their face and their clothes torn – three small children look helplessly into the camera.
Meanwhile a little girl stands on a pub table singing for the punters, hoping for some spare change.
Being poor in Liverpool at the turn of the twentieth century almost guaranteed a life in a slum, most likely to the north of the city as many of the factories were located there.Children were expected to work long hours in dangerous jobs for minuscule wages.
The poorest Black family in America today live like kings compared to England’s poorest who had no welfare, no government programs or education. In fact, Black slaves in America were treated better and had better living conditions compared to the poorest “free” Whites living in England and elsewhere on the European continent. There were no laws against exploiting child labor, and all poor children had no choice but to work in factories to help their families eke out a bare living.
Millions of White children died under these squalid conditions, and had they been Black, we would never hear the end of it today, but because they were White, no one — especially White liberals — have any sympathy for them. But then again, unlike other races, Whites don’t obsess about past wrongs that were done to them; rather, they pick themselves up, dust themselves off, and work hard to improve themselves and those around them. But, in a culture that idolizes victimhood, these White children are remarkably invisible.
Don’t get me started on ‘indentured servitude’ in America or the plight of the Irish, the most exploited people in American history, period. The Irish were treated way worse than the black slaves could ever imagine – and these are my ancestors! But never in a million years would I imagine myself pursuing ‘reparations’ and ‘entitlement payments’ as a career choice…
Amen!
At the time of the war of northern aggression, there were more ‘indentured servants’ who were white – mostly in the north – than blacks. Remember, that only approximately 5% of Southerners owned negroes…and that the war criminal Lincoln was SO concerned about the africans that they were not even allowed in Illinois.
yup, to piggy back off of this, only about 5% of the world’s slave trade ever even made it to North America. The vast majority of it was in Africa itself, and the second most was in Europe.
Almost all of the “slave” labor was provided by other whites. Sure, indentured servants have a couple of rights.. that shouldnt discount that America was truely built off of the labor of whites and not blacks like most would have you believe.
Yes, I find it very hard to use any victim card. But we have to realize our ancestors have been defeated and exploited. And when it is a fact, we have to deal with it, especially as the patterns of abuse are repeating themselves or comes in new wrapping, as the culture of abuse are instructed in the same code.
I wish, want and will that our people should start to become Lawyers, historians, politicians, bankers and business people. We need so badly to replace those who “represents” us.
I was born into this dead end culture of Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll, but i want to leave a culture of Family, Work and Nation building.
As the true history comes up, the ideology of supremacy seems to be Jewish made blinding bombs, for they have secretly ruled it all. They must have thought, “lets flatter them on their way to extermination”.