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He listens to "revolutionary, cracker-killing hip-hop" on his headphones and says things like: "I'll get black to you on that."
Originally posted by calihan123
You know... the thing that is frustrating amongst blacks is that they blame white people for everything. ....
I love black people, I am friends with plenty. But I cannot understand the mindset of ignorant black people who say white people are their enemies.
Originally posted by solarstorm
He considers himself a black hebrew and claims that African-Americans are God's true chosen people.
Originally posted by jakyll
The Mongolian Empire in Eastern Europe.The Umayyad Arab Empire in Spain and Portugal.The Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe.
True.
But its wrong for disdain to be shown at those who try to understand it.
Well,they expect the worst,and more often than not,they are not disappointed.(which is a sad thing indeed)It is a natural way to be for some people and a good survival technique,and not just those of a different skin colour.But for those whites who are not racist,non-whites have to meet us half way and not treat us as the 'enemy.'
The first 3 of Marcus' facts are right.And they often get overlooked.
Thats true.
But don't forget that the abolition of the slave movement began with white people and there were plenty of white people who were attacked or killed in the name of abolition,and not just in America.
The slave trade existed across the African continent long before the Atlantic slave trade began.The Songhay Empire in western Africa had a regular trade with the Arabs in the 15th & 16th centuries,as did other empires and tribes from northern and east Africa.
The Portugese were the first Europeans to show interest in the slave trade,and they bought them off the Africans.Slaves were usually criminals or people captured from war.Of course when business boomed raiding parties were sent into the continents interior,a method also done for the eastern slave trade centuries before.
If you are born of a Jewish woman you are classed as Jewish whether you practice the faith or not.
Originally posted by Cairowoman
LIES LIES LIES! How many black friends do you have and not just blacks you talk to at work? True to life, put your life on it friends.
Let's talk for real because you have to be kidding me right?!? Blacks will ALWAYS be at a disadvantage in a society where we are expected to conform to a mostly white society and white social standards.
Let blacks be blacks and not be ghetto or undersireable when we do anything that is not seen as "white".
White people almost NEVER have to conform or change for Black people on a regular basis and therefore on that point alone cannot understand the full underlying social forces in play.
Lastly-- I think we can both agree that most black people dont teach their kids each day that they wont be s*&^ ---- we teach our kids just like any other folks to love themselves and that they can do whatever they want
Well let me see. My dentist is black, my previous boss was black, and now my president is going to be a black guy.
Originally posted by princeofpeace
No the president is not. He is half white and half black. He's a mulatto. When are folks going to realize that Obama is not any more African American than he is European American? True he may be the first president to have African American as PART of his heritage but thats it...PART. He is also white. Sorry to have to be the one to inform everyone because the media sure isnt doing it.
Originally posted by StellarX
Agreed but can you also agree that it might be harder for the victims to trust the group that were responsible for the continued enslavement while in the United States?
I mean why can't white people just get it trough their thick skulls that Africans didn't come to North-America willingly in the first place and that it's ridiculous to blame those few that have not managed to 'forgive' their former oppressors their sins?
The abolition of slavery started thousands of years ago ( with the first slave states) but as you well know it took a while to be resolved in the way it currently has. Either way abolitionist movements rarely if ever start with the owning class and if it does it's mostly because of the involvement of the slaves who gain their freedom, by some 'masters' generally being more humane than other and slaves revolting and gaining temporary or permanent freedom.
And before that i suspect the Phoenicians did and later the Greeks, Romans and many others. I am not saying that white folk did it first or best but that those who until recently , or still do, live in such conditions know who their enslavers are and are deserving of our understanding when they can not or do not forgive them for their crimes.
The point is that he is not white, and he is about to become a US president who was largely elected by whites.
Do you think the voters see a black guy or a mulatto up there on the podium.
Agreed but can you also agree that it might be harder for the victims to trust the group that were responsible for the continued enslavement while in the United States?
In a perfect world i suppose we can expect the generally less educated, victimized masses to in their simple minded goodness forgive and forget every sin they didn't really experience in such a negative fashion because , you know, their simply hardy people....
I don't think that is accurate ( Portuguese as first slave traders) but since it's beside the point i'll leave it at that.
Prince Henry established a slave market & fort in Arguin Bay in 1445 and they were brought back to Portugal. When a large slave auction was held in Lagos in that same year it was described by one witness as a "terrible scene of misery and disorder". By 1455 800 Africans were transported to Portugal annually.
Which is silly if your not Semitic; that's like saying your classified as a catholic if your born to Catholic mother. Why change a discussion about the classification of people by their appearances to a discussion about classification according to religious beliefs that we can not identify merely by looking?
A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism....
First, traditional Judaism maintains that a person is a Jew if his mother is a Jew, regardless of who his father is. The liberal movements, on the other hand, consider a person to be Jewish if either of his parents was Jewish and the child was raised Jewish.
Originally posted by phinubian
Unfortunately hate breeds hate, these groups and ideas came about, festered and were allowed to grow at a time after hundreds of years of oppression that when voicing of these types of opinions would be shunted to ground and would have ended with a lynching or gang beating that went unpunished and were staged entertainment events for hundreds to witness without any way of the blacks to seek payback or retribution against the perpetrators or participants.
Only during the 60's and 70's when anti war, anti government, pro women's rights groups and the like did these ideologies come to the forefront and have a mouthpiece such as the black panthers and other pro black liberation parties almost in the parallel with the nonviolent civil rights movement, however, only after hundreds of years before them groups like the Klan and white supremicists representing themselves as the dominant race and as a part of the original American fabric outwardly express views like this as well as the American Nazi Party from the 40's forward promoting views of extermination of Jews that so happened to have been put into effect by Adolf Hitler, and calling on the same for blacks and other minorities while stirring up notions of a race war of sorts.
Radicalism has been a part of America since the beginning, however, it has been expressed a little differently and defined in history of being a revolutionary, of being a patriot when fight for the core values are put in the apple pie and chevrolet main street American context originally established for the country at the expense of American Indians, Chinese Immigrants and others back when blacks were on equal level with dogs and property, no immigrant ever arrived here not of their own free will nor upon landing was their status for the most part sub human and property of whites, that is why when the expression the United States is a Nation of immigrants is not a truly accurate statement when used.
Originally posted by StellarX
Agreed but can you also agree that it might be harder for the victims to trust the group that were responsible for the continued enslavement while in the United States? I mean why can't white people just get it trough their thick skulls that Africans didn't come to North-America willingly in the first place and that it's ridiculous to blame those few that have not managed to 'forgive' their former oppressors their sins?
Originally posted by Retseh
Originally posted by Cairowoman
LIES LIES LIES! How many black friends do you have and not just blacks you talk to at work? True to life, put your life on it friends.
I can only shake my head at the fact that the only thing you know about me is that I am white - and yet you are so certain I'm a racist. The sad part is that you probably are representative of the black community in general.
NOONE SAID YOU WERE RACIST JUST A LIAR.
Let's talk for real because you have to be kidding me right?!? Blacks will ALWAYS be at a disadvantage in a society where we are expected to conform to a mostly white society and white social standards.
Well let me see. My dentist is black, my previous boss was black, and now my president is going to be a black guy.
YEAH NONE ARE YOUR FRIENDS CASE AND POINT WHY I CALLED YOU A LIAR AND THE SAD PART IS THAT YOU REPRESENT MOST WHITE AMERICA.
Just when will you be satisfied that black people are not at a disadvantage? Just what qualitative standards are you going to apply to measure that fact?
I AM A BLACK DOCTOR AND UNTIL THERE ARE THE SAME RATIO OF BLACK DOCTORS TO BLACK PEOPLE IN THE BLACK POPULATION AS WHITE DOCTORS ARE IN THE WHITE POPULATION THEN AND ONLY THEN CAN YOU SAY THAT IT IS EQUAL. WHY IS IT DIFFERENT BECAUSE BLACKS ARE LAZY BECAUSE THEY ARE DUMB? IT JUST ISNT POSSIBLE FOR 99% OF BLACK PEOPLE TO JUST BE LAZY BUMS ....MAYBE IT IS SOCIOECONOMIC BUT I AM SURE THAT YOU DIDNT READ ANY OF MY OTHER POSTS SO YOU WOULDNT RECOGNIZE THAT.
Native American Indians could certainly make a better case, and I'm sorry to break this to you, but the black community is no longer the most disadvantaged group - as a matter of fact, you're doing pretty darned well.
PROBABLY SO BUT AT LEAST THEY GOT TO STAY AT HOME AND KNOW WHERE THEY CAME FROM AND YES I AM DOING PRETTY DAMN WELL AND IT IS NOT BECAUSE A WHITE MAN GAVE ME A HAND OUT FOR SURE SO WE WERE NEVER DISADVANTAGED WE WERE ONLY TOLD THAT ON A REGULAR BASIS ENOUGH FOR MOST OF US AND OTHER WHITE PEOPLE TO BELIEVE IT AND THAT IS OUR FAULT FOR NOT DOING MORE TO FIGHT THE PROGRAMMING BUT WHAT IS DONE IS DONE. NOW WE HAVE TO ALL FIGHT FOR THE TRUTH TO COME OUT.
Let blacks be blacks and not be ghetto or undersireable when we do anything that is not seen as "white".
Here's the heart of the problem. No one ever suggests that white culture stops Asian people from being Asian, or Indian people from being Indian, but somehow white culture singles out black culture and stops them being "black".
NO BUT IT IS COPIED RAPED FOR CORPORATE VALUE THEN RIDICULED/SHUNNED ON A REGULAR BASIS. TO DENY THAT IS HAPPENING IS CONTINUING TO LIVE IN DENIAL.
I honestly don't know how we stop you from being yourselves, to me we go out of our way to allow black people their own space. I see black only hair products at the store, I see an entertainment channel just for black people, and I see black history month celebrated on the major networks, I don't see any of those things for other minorities.
Could YOU imagine the reaction to an America with white only hair products, a whites only TV channel, and a celebration of white history?
AGAIN I WOULD LIKE TO DIRECT YOU TO PREVIOUS POSTS AS TO WHY THIS IS AND I ALREADY LIVE IN A MAINLY WHITE TV PROGRAMMING, HAIR PRODUCTS (OUR HAIR IS STRUCTURALLY DIFFERENT BTW), AND WHITE HISTORY ("THE MAN'S" VERSION) WORLD IT IS CALLED AMERICA. IF YOU WERE IN AFRICA WOULD YOU ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS? NO YOU WOULD BE THE MINORITY AND GET USED TO SEEING THOSE PROGRAMS---OH WAIT YOU HAVE PROBABLY NEVER BEEN THERE TO KNOW THAT THERE IS MOSTLY AMERICAN/BRITISH (MOSTLY WHITE) PROGRAMMING THERE TOO? I GUESS US BLACKS OVER THERE ARE TOO DAMN LAZY TO MAKE OUR OWN PROGRAMMING/CHANNELS OVER THERE!
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[edit on 4-11-2008 by Cairowoman]