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Gee Dude calm down i guess i would address this one at a time. First this history thing. If our slave masters didn't allow us to read or write and when they did allow us the right they gave us substandard materials and schools. See the school systems in this country don't teach about black kings and queens, as a matter of fact you were only taught the accomplishments of white people, wonder what that will do for your psyche? You don't have to go and dig for white accomplishments, it's taught up front not hidden. If blacks haven't accepted white rule why haven't we uprised and killed you? We are so sick we don't want to leave you. You say you're the greatest country on earth and everyone wants to come here? Even the people you claim as your enemy live here in peace. Have they accepted white rule? Next Islam was a way of life even before Muhammad came . Islam is a way of life not a religion. Blacks were in europe before the white man so how would the Moors and Muhammad have a need to conquer europe? You might say Muhammad didn't allow the spread of Constantines Christianity into East Asia. Separation is the only answer.
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
Firstly I'm not a sir and secondly I'm not your country and thirdly I'm not even remotely part of your home grown race issue
The little girl Sarah had no choice? You're quite correct he choices were go with Forbes to England and live or be burned alive in the tomb of her ancestors.
White people have never accepted being ruled by blacks? Again probably correct and blacks haven't accepted being ruled by whites either but then again no-one on the planet actually "likes" to be ruled
I've already said if you could be bothered reading the posts that the Kings & Queens of Europe were black and those that weren't had black ancestry
Black contributions are not erased from history, if they were I wouldn't have been able to find them. I have listed black Generals, Knights, Princesses mentioned artists composers philosophers. Again please read
Prior to this "thousand year war for domination" no sure which war you refer to exactly has it not occurred to you that the Moors & Mohammed in particular did exactly the same in order to conquer Europe?
You see everything cuts both ways but how does that from over 1000 yrs ago affect blacks in America today exactly?
At the same time, to this day Latin America is incredibly racist, ESPECIALlY based on skin tone. They have a far more complex labeling system for every level of skin tone
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: PhyllidaDavenport
It's been observed that Spanish America was much more relaxed about intermarriage between black and white than Anglo-Saxon America.
I wonder if this has to do with the difference between Catholicism and Protestantism?
Is it that the Protestant colonists already had a bad conscience about holding humans as slaves, and the only way they could justify it in their own minds was to develop the idea that black people were inferior, less human?
Whereas the Catholics of Latin America had not escaped the more medieval view that "slavery happens, no shame involved in holding slaves or being a slave".
See the school systems in this country don't teach about black kings and queens, as a matter of fact you were only taught the accomplishments of white people, wonder what that will do for your psyche? You don't have to go and dig for white accomplishments, it's taught up front not hidden.
If blacks haven't accepted white rule why haven't we uprised and killed you?
Separation is the only answer
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
The schools system in the UK don't teach about black Kings & Queens either but then again until this last 50yrs or so it has only just been discovered through various techniques that many were in fact actually black.
Black Americans have played a vital role in building this nation. Eager to live and prosper as free people, we have established our own towns since Colonial times. Many of these communities were destroyed by racial violence or injustice, while some just died out.
The events that destroyed a thriving Black Oklahoma community 92 years ago were much more than a 'race riot'
In 1919, in the wake of World War I, black sharecroppers unionized in Arkansas, unleashing a wave of white vigilantism and mass murder that left 237 people dead.
And what happened to this astonishingly visionary program, which would have fundamentally altered the course of American race relations? Andrew Johnson, Lincoln’s successor and a sympathizer with the South, overturned the Order in the fall of 1865, and, as Barton Myers sadly concludes, “returned the land along the South Carolina, Georgia and Florida coasts to the planters who had originally owned it” — to the very people who had declared war on the United States of America.
Hence, the act of enslavement itself changed as black convicts were no longer slaves to individual masters, but rather they were enslaved to the companies which they were leased out to. To create this system, there not only had to be the involvement of the Southern judicial system and individual Northern and Southern elites, but also the involvement and reinstitution of slavery within a corporate context.
Besides the convict lease system, which kept black people as slaves within the construct of leasing them to corporations, there was also sharecropping, which kept blacks tied to the land they worked. In order to obtain a full understanding of sharecropping, the social, economic, and legal contexts under which sharecropping was instituted must first be examined.
Sundown towns were a form of segregation, in which a town, city, or neighborhood in the United States was purposely all-white, excluding people of other races. These restrictions were enforced by some combination of discriminatory local laws, intimidation, and violence. The term came from signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown. They are also sometimes known as sunset towns or gray towns.
The freewheeling opportunity associated with 20th-century California was not available to black residents, and that exclusion reverberates in our neighborhoods and communities today.
Used nationwide to prevent people of color from purchasing homes in white communities.
Race and ethnicity are used to determine mortgage eligibility in communities such as Roxbury, Dorchester and Hyde Park, thus perpetuating housing segregation.
Predatory (yet perfectly legal) tax-lien sales were perfected in the city in the 1970s. The crisis continues today.
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION (or "The War after the Civil War") AND SEGREGATION BY LAW, a virtual revolution. Before the Civil War ended and immediately after the War, the whites of the Confederate States began a vengeful campaign of murder against the New Afrikans/Blacks.
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
What possible reason could anyone have in those days of painting a coat of arms with a Black man in a prominent position on the crest if it wasn't a black man's crest?
Queen Phillipa of England mother of another "black prince" whom the french called Le Noir. She was described by Bishop Stapledon who went to vet her as a future bride & Queen as “The lady whom we saw has not uncomely hair, betwixt blue-black and brown. Her head is cleaned shaped; her forehead high and broad, and standing somewhat forward. Her face narrows between the eyes, and the lower part of her face is still more narrow and slender than the forehead. Her eyes are blackish brown and deep. Her nose is fairly smooth and even, save that is somewhat broad at the tip and flattened, yet it is no snub nose. Her nostrils are also broad, her mouth fairly wide. Her lips somewhat full and especially the lower lip…all her limbs are well set and unmaimed, and nought is amiss so far as a man may see. Moreover, she is brown of skin all over, and much like her father, and in all things she is pleasant enough, as it seems to us.”
I merely wish to show that our perception of blacks all being slaves is quite wrong and history it seems cannot, as it has been presumed, be regarded as accurate. Only as time moves on and new research methods develop and real history come to light. It is ever changing
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Boadicea
I would suggest that's only part of the story.
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
a reply to: ladyinwaiting
Clearly you don't believe as I that this whole current situation is being cleverly manipulated then? Do you not feel that the blacks of today currently protesting chanting and spewing hatred should take charge of their lives, live up to some of their superb role models, improve their lot themselves and stop the blame game/victimhood? Do you not think that these actions hold them back severely?
originally posted by: PhyllidaDavenport
a reply to: Boadicea
Thank you I will read up further
However it is not generally those born in the 60's 70's or even 80's that appear to have the problem it is the young and easily manipulated, that is what worries me