05-03-2018, 03:58 PM
21. A couple of people imagined their ancestors making this choice
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-21-ghana-to-jamaica-chose.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--EQwjrS6C--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288003/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-21-ghana-to-jamaica-chose.png)
Yes, people can directly trace how far back their ancestry goes to slavery. It's not as far as you'd think.
22. This person had the same idea
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-22-ghana-to-ba...-chose.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--R4wsAGzk--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288022/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-22-ghana-to-barbados-chose.png)
This version of the past is what plenty of people would love for others to believe.
23. Some of these are wild
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-23-travelocity.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--uzo3fduV--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288038/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-23-travelocity.png)
Anachronisms make for great humor.
24. You'd get weekends off, right?
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-24-weekend-fun.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--WkZ8Zbom--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288059/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-24-weekend-fun.png)
Again, actual slaves had zero of the "luxuries" for which modern, voluntary workers have fought.
25. We guess that you make your own schedule
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-25-your-own-schedule.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--bP5HIPzh--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288082/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-25-your-own-schedule.png)
We don't know enough about agriculture to say whether these months would work for cotton, but that's not the point.
26. If it's a choice, you can leave
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-26-whos-gonna-check-me.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--SbXSpcHj--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288105/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-26-whos-gonna-check-me.png)
In real life, there were bounty hunters and even regular law enforcement who would hunt down escaped slaves. Heartbreaking.
27. More anachronisms
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-27-office-emails.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--eAILeN87--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288122/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-27-office-emails.png)
Rare to see Family Guy used in a funny context
28. And, of course, sick days
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-28-out-sick.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--joIbb7ev--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288141/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-28-out-sick.png)
The woman who went viral for "ain't nobody got time for that" later got clean and turned her life around.
29. Hard pass
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-29-no-contract-extension.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--rK39qHsA--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288156/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-29-no-contract-extension.png)
Hard to see someone signing up for more. Or, you know, any.
30. This Big Brother meme again
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-30-free-ship-hispaniola.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--pVCfQO-x--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288192/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-30-free-ship-hispaniola.png)
Hispaniola is a larger island in the Caribbean.
31. Another slur warning
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-31-cotton-or-fired.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--D1p3gEeD--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288225/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-31-cotton-or-fired.png)
Bye!!
32. And the hits keep coming
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-32-hard-pass.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--1trJV-NH--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288245/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-32-hard-pass.png)
Another hard pass.
33. A classic reference.
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-33-kunta-kinte.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--AGHe0dv3--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288260/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-33-kunta-kinte.png)
Kunta Kinte was LeVar Burton's famous character from Roots. He was renamed "Toby" to erase his personhood and origins.
34. A real dilemma
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-34-revolt-prom...uandry.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--8L3BAOiu--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288281/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-34-revolt-promotion-quandry.png)
Sadly, by pitting slaves against each other, slave-owners were sometimes able to make real slaves feel similarly conflicted about their loyalties. It's psychological warfare.
35. Oh no!!
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-35-rachel-dolezal.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--b3Nj5xim--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288295/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-35-rachel-dolezal.png)
That is Rachel Dolezal. She is not black.
36. If only people had known that they had a choice!
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-36-kanye-enlightenment.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--53Ik6O6z--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288344/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-36-kanye-enlightenment.png)
No meme is complete without bringing Kermit, the ultimate meme-inspirer, into things.
37. And this one strikes a more somber note
![[Image: kanye-slavery-choice-meme-37-chains.png]](https://the-hollywood-gossip-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--qhYtZFcD--/t_slideshow/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1525288357/attachment/kanye-slavery-choice-meme-37-chains.png)
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