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Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by Red Black Green
Yeah, there are white racists. I don't disagree with that, but there are also far more whites who see racism as a bad thing, and speak out against racism. As a white northerner, I don't feel any more comfortable around these racists than blacks. Yeah, I can be accepted by these people as long as I pretend to be what I am not, but I could never do that, and I don't see my whiteness as any bit of an advantage under these circumstances. In the same way, I don't feel comfortable around the GW types, who I think have a completely different type of discrimination, or blacks or latinos who look at me as a white racist just because I am white.
Being that there are more whites, there is more white discrimination, but when you consider the numbers, all races are cursed with an equal number of jerks.
This thread should be locked. It's just going to fuel ontil there is fueds. It's called division, this thread is about division. You can't disect OR analyse dvsion. You accept it and now you just look go for a common ground. Or where there are connections. No matter what colour you are, people naturally want to communicate and mirror the next person, in order to understand the other person. None of us will understand each other with this thread the way it is. Its diviison. Let's all be aware of what this thread stands for.
Originally posted by Red Black Green
When did I say you owe me anything but to accept your ancestors responsibility.
Originally posted by Red Black Green
I don't want any such thing. Only thing this black man wants is for evil caucasoids to accept responsibility for their actions.
Originally posted by universe attracts wisdom
Just for all the blacks in America still moaning about the whites putting you to slavery. And it's all due to skin colour and race.
WELL YOUR WRONG.
I'm white, I'm irish, and these white people from next door. It's called Britain. Yeah they are white. They brutalized us, killed us, took our lands, our foods and left us to survive on the potato.
2million people died, and million left the country over the years.
We have war with these other white people for the best part of a thousands years.
SO LAY OFF THIS POOR ME RACIST BULL#. When America was first created, the time was slavery. It didnt matter for colour. It just so happens that it was easier to take the poor people from West Africa and bring them over here to work for them. It happened all over the world.
I get soooooo tired of black people making it out to be the first ever brutal time in history.
Originally posted by AngelInterceptor
reply to post by Red Black Green
I'm sorry, but do you really think that white people have a monopoly on slavery?
Slavery can be traced back as far as recorded history. Egypt, Assyria, Persia, Islam, Greece, and the Romans all had a slave trade. The medieval times were full of slavery on every side.
You seem very intent on only focusing on slavery perpetrated by white people, when the simple fact is that it was widely practiced by every people for thousands of years. It even still exists today in some forms such as forced child labour and people and sex trafficking. These are modern forms of slavery.
Originally posted by berenike
Originally posted by Red Black Green
When did I say you owe me anything but to accept your ancestors responsibility.
I'm not American and I wonder if you could help me with something that baffles me.
You have made many references to caucasoids and complain vehemently about the current white population's ancestors and their part in the slave trade.
But, if I am not mistaken, the majority of current African Americans are the descendants of the slaves and have a 99.9% chance of having at least one white slave trader of slave owner as an ancestor.
If that is the case, then it is your own white ancestors - not necessarily everyone else's - who are the architects of your current problems.
Will you not accept your own white heritage? You've dismissed President Obama as not black because his mother is white, but by that reasoning - how many African Americans are truly black?
Are you not more accurately Afro-European Americans?
You complain of being taught white history, but some of your ancestors could have fought in the Napoleonic Wars, lived through Stuart or Tudor times. Taken part in the French Revolution or the Battle of Hastings, to name but a few European historical events.
I am not excusing any wrongs that were done in the past - what happened is inexcusable. But I do think that if you want everyone else to stand up and take responsibility for the actions of their ancestors, then maybe you should stand up too.
I am sorry I cannot remember the name of the poster who makes the point about how much the Irish and English love each other if they just get over the wrongs perpetrated
by their ruling classes.
It's a good thing to remember that those ruling classes have to practice oppressing their own people before they go out and oppress anyone else.
Seriously, all of us who are 'below the salt' would do well to forget about how rotten our ancestors or their masters were and concentrate on how we are all being divided and ruled today.
Slavery traces back to the earliest records, such as the Bible and the Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1760 BCE), which refers to it as an established institution.[1] Slavery in ancient cultures was known to occur in civilizations as old as Sumer, and it was found in every civilization, including Ancient Egypt, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient Greece, Ancient Persia,[24] Rome and parts of its empire, and the Islamic Caliphate
The Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe brought large numbers of Christian slaves into the Islamic world too.[36] After the battle of Lepanto approximately 12,000 Christian galley slaves were freed from the Ottoman Turks
According to Sir Henry Bartle Frere (who sat on the Viceroy's Council), there were an estimated 8 million or 9 million slaves in India in 1841. In Malabar, about 15% of the population were slaves
Indigenous slaves existed in Korea. Slavery was officially abolished with the Gabo Reform of 1894 but remained in reality until 1930. During the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) about 30% to 50% of the Korean population were slaves
Historians say the Arab slave trade lasted more than a millennium. Some historians estimate that between 11 and 18 million black African slaves crossed the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Desert from 650 AD to 1900 AD,[2][55][56] and more than the 9.4 to 12 million Africans were brought to the Americas.[2] According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans were captured by Barbary pirates and sold as slaves in North Africa and Ottoman Empire between the 16th and 19th centuries.[57]
Originally posted by Simon_Boudreaux
Originally posted by Red Black Green
I don't want any such thing. Only thing this black man wants is for evil caucasoids to accept responsibility for their actions.
Then I'm afraid you'll be waiting a looooong time for that. I don't know about anyone else but I'll be damned before I apologize or accept responsibility for the actions of someone else. Whether it's today or centuries ago. Maybe there in lies the problem of the black man. Wanting someone else to take responsibility for the actions of others. Now I know why the black community always says the white man keeps them down. Can't take responsibility that it's your own actions or inaction that keep you down.
No one keeps you down but you.
No one stops you from doing great things but you.
No one stops you from rising up from poverty but you.
And no one owes you or any other black person in this country a damn thing. Especially for something none of us alive today had anything to do with.
When you quit with the blame game and place it squarely were it belongs then you will no longer be "kept down"
You say the white man just doesn't understand. Well, you're right. We don't understand why you blame us for your problems.
Slavery in America officially ended January 31, 1865. Get over it. Black people aren't the only people ever forced into slavery. You don't hear them still crying about it do you?Ever think it's because they chose to overcome that part of their past. If the black man hasn't made something of himself in all those years since that's your problem not ours so quit blaming us.
If saying these things when others won't makes me racist then fine I'll be labeled a racist it doesn't bother me. I know whether I am or not so other's opinions of me mean little.
Originally posted by Red Black Green
Your arrogance disgusts me and is pathetic because you and your people's refusal to understand the POINT. #1 Racism was created BY white people FOR white people, PERIOD. FACT.
For all you who can't seem to comprehend that there is no "blame" to place when the FACT remains everything I have stated is TRUE. The reaction to the action that was initiated is cause for the myriad of problems MY people have. Once again, not ALL of our problems but your people are the ORIGINATORS of the problem. #3 there is a difference b/n CHATTLE slavery (DE-humanization of a people FOR the sole purpose of slavery and indentured servitude which is a form of debt bondage worker. The laborer is under contract of an employer for usually three to seven years, in exchange for their transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging and other necessities. Unlike a slave.
Lay of your crap.
And if 100 million + people isn't the 1st brutal time to you then you just prove my point about the evil nature of your people.
Get over it, you wouldn 't be having this life, only for the slavery now. You live a better life now? You have alot to learn, that history didn't start with black slavery! No it wasn't just blacks. We Irish were slaves to the English. Don't see me waving around, poor me snydrome do you.
Yeah it was easier to just steal Africans, yeah that's justifiable, instead of Oh let's just stop this injustice of stealing other human beings, but no your so-called "good natured" caucasoids turn a blind eye.
YOU HAVEN'T MOVE ON. Not a bit Judging by your post, The level of anger, immaturity and resentment is still there.. I can tell you didn't read my post fully. You even called in a few lines, "you evil white people". You haven't accepted that bad things have happened in the past. You haven't accepted that bad things happen to every race and colour. But you seem to put your ego in full drive and constantly make the history issue TODAY. If you have moved on you wouldn't be so bitter about it. We've aknowledged the suffering. Now deal with it. Do you want to stay in that place?
You people sicken me to think that black pain and suffering is just something to push to the side so you can forget and "move on". We have "moved on" and we have forgiven, that's part of our problem as blacks
If we compute a conservative annual natural growth of 1.5%/year, this makes a population of about 5 Million afro-americans in the USA at the time of Lincoln. I don’t know from where you’re assuming a “holocaust” of 100 Million people.