{"id":131413,"date":"2026-04-20T19:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=131413"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:25:28","slug":"favorite-tweets-36727","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=131413","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">@TheRabbitHole Thomas Sowell is correct.<\/p>\n<p>The Barbary slave trade (North African Muslim corsairs) enslaved an estimated 1\u20131.25 million white Europeans over several centuries \u2014 more than the roughly 388,000\u2013450,000 Africans brought to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Slavery has been a human evil across<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Samuel Afolabi (@1SamuelAfolabi)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/1SamuelAfolabi\/status\/2046081176885170589\">Apr 20, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/1SamuelAfolabi<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@TheRabbitHole Thomas Sowell is correct. The Barbary slave trade (North African Muslim corsairs) enslaved an estimated 1\u20131.25 million white Europeans over several centuries \u2014 more than the roughly 388,000\u2013450,000 Africans brought to the United States. Slavery has been a human evil across &mdash; Samuel Afolabi (@1SamuelAfolabi) Apr 20, 2026 from http:\/\/twitter.com\/1SamuelAfolabi via IFTTT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-131413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131414,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131413\/revisions\/131414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131413"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=131413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}