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originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
Ask yourselves this. When was the last time you were punched in the face ONLY for being black (black as an example...fill in anything you want)? When was the last time you were denied a loan for being black, denied housing, etc. It simply doesn't happen anymore. If you "see racism"...maybe it is just you looking for it where it doesn't exist. At least consider that. If you knew nothing of racism...would you see it?
It...doesn't...happen.
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: alldaylong
naw i would be speaking French or Spanish.
and someone who lives in glass houses shouldn't be throwing stones.
if the british had of stayed home there would be far less people taken from their homelands and turned into slaves.
France was a major player in the slave trade and many of its cities on the West Coast (such as Nantes, Lorient, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux) have built their wealth through the triangular trade. Slaves on French vessels were mainly taken to the French Caribbean colonies such as Saint-Domingue and Martinique. In addition, France is also notorious for introducing the Code Noir ('black code'), a decree written in 1685 providing formal regulations for the treatment of slaves, governing their lives, deaths, freedoms, religion and how they were to be bought and sold. This gruesome document served to de-humanise the enslaved Africans even more by institutionalising the trade in humans even further. France eventually outlawed the slave trade in 1830 and slavery itself in 1848
Spain had North African slaves as early as the 15th century and with its expansion into the Caribbean and Central/Latin America, it soon started importing slaves from Africa. However, unlike Portugal, Spain did not have forts in Africa and therefore relied on the other European slave trading countries to provide their colonies with slaves. The slave trade ended in 1867 with a last ship arriving in Cuba and slavery was abolished in 1886. There do not seem to be any major memorials and commemorations linked to slavery in either Spain or Portugal, which is all the more remarkable, given that these two countries were the first in Europe to practice slave trading and amongst the last to abolish it
We've all been taught the horror's of the African slave trade. It's in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies. But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn't get mentioned at all: the Irish.
originally posted by: neo96
Reparations ?
Well then 'where is my fair share'.
Since I have Irish ancestry.
The Irish Slave Trade – The Forgotten “White” Slaves
We've all been taught the horror's of the African slave trade. It's in all the school books and in plenty of Hollywood movies. But for some reason the largest group of slaves in the British Colonies in the 17th Century doesn't get mentioned at all: the Irish.
www.dailykos.com...
Then we can bring up the Chinese who built the railroads.
Yeah us Irish, and the Chinese have been forgotten.
Guess our ancestors don't count.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves
originally posted by: magnetik
white guilt is based on the sins of your father, that you benefit from white supremacy. A simple example would be a house for sale. The white family can buy it and pass it down.
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
a reply to: magnetik
My local community college insists on giving scholarships to black kids from the city and no I'm not afraid to say it. We have drug dealers, vandalism, robberies, a few shootings over the years. The grounds have police that patrol them and every morning it's bottles of empty alcohol in the halls, on the grounds. Garbage thrown everywhere, graffiti.
originally posted by: Yeahkeepwatchingme
a reply to: billyvonhelvete
Why do the cops let the black people go so they don't have to be accused of racism? Because we allowed it.
originally posted by: JohnFisher
a reply to: alldaylong
No we (Irish) just didn't cry, and we repopulated. Read the book "White Cargo". It will open your eyes and give you more sources and references than you know what to do with. And they are mostly credible sources too! Also, it provides documents.
The Irish population dwindled to near extinction levels. By God's grace, our blood lives on. But Neo isn't wrong. You are.