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There is a difference in being racist, and being prejudiced. Racism is systematic.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Im white and Ive never felt discriminated against by blacks personally. But are you saying no blacks are ever racist? I seriously doubt that.
650,000? LMAO. Better recheck those numbers sir, because you're WAY off. Would you accept a one-way ticket back to your ''roots''? Your ancestors were of European descent, so save your home turf crap.
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by shaluach
I do love when people try to use that "Well it was Africans who sold their own people into slavery" junk. Of course that's a fact. It's common knowledge. Doesn't change that it was the Europeans who took them into slavery for hundreds of years and committed all kind of atrocities against them.
Yeah! If you want to talk about slavery, why don't you give our friends in the Middle East and North Africa an "honorable mention"? From 650 AD to 1900 AD it is estimated that they took over 18 million slaves from Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the United States, and many other countries.
Of the estimated 12 million slaves the came to the Americas, only 650,000 ended up in the United States, yet we are often considered the "bad guys" when it comes to slavery. I wonder how many of those that were descended from that 650,000 would be willing to accept a one way ticket back to the land of their "roots". I'll bet there wouldn't be very damn many! Instead of whining and crying about the past, they should be thankful those days are long gone.
See ya,
Miltedit on 28-6-2012 by BenReclused because: Typo
Originally posted by ErtaiNaGia
reply to post by bowtomonkey
Hating all white people because of what 1% of American's did is not justice.. it's pointless hatred.
Actually, Technically, it's Racism.
Not "Reverse Racism" mind you... just Regular Racism.
Never forget... that you will *NEVER* be a human being to these people... you are merely "White"
Originally posted by poloblack
650,000? LMAO. Better recheck those numbers sir, because you're WAY off. Would you accept a one-way ticket back to your ''roots''? Your ancestors were of European descent, so save your home turf crap.
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by shaluach
I do love when people try to use that "Well it was Africans who sold their own people into slavery" junk. Of course that's a fact. It's common knowledge. Doesn't change that it was the Europeans who took them into slavery for hundreds of years and committed all kind of atrocities against them.
Yeah! If you want to talk about slavery, why don't you give our friends in the Middle East and North Africa an "honorable mention"? From 650 AD to 1900 AD it is estimated that they took over 18 million slaves from Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the United States, and many other countries.
Of the estimated 12 million slaves the came to the Americas, only 650,000 ended up in the United States, yet we are often considered the "bad guys" when it comes to slavery. I wonder how many of those that were descended from that 650,000 would be willing to accept a one way ticket back to the land of their "roots". I'll bet there wouldn't be very damn many! Instead of whining and crying about the past, they should be thankful those days are long gone.
See ya,
Miltedit on 28-6-2012 by BenReclused because: Typo
An estimated 12 million Africans arrived in the Americas from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Of these, an estimated 645,000 were brought to what is now the United States.
The usual estimate is that about 15 per cent of slaves died during the voyage, with mortality rates considerably higher in Africa itself in the process of capturing and transporting indigenous peoples to the ships. Approximately 6 million black Africans were killed by others in tribal wars
because he is a racist he is putting his race first, I am white and dont have a problem with anybody putting there race first it seems natural to me
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by shaluach
Oh. "Only" 650,000. How silly of anyone to be upset about such a small number.
I said "only" because I sincerely feel they were the fortunate few. If you disagree, please explain why.
I'd love to see your source for these numbers, though.
I'm up to that challenge. Here you go! I hope you're pleased.
And no one is denying the Arab slave trade of the Africans.
Hell, no one ever seems to mention it! I feel that's the same as denying it! Now you seem to be ignoring the enslavement of those that weren't from Africa, why?
Proof?
I'll believe it when white people are rounded up on ships against their will and shipped off to Africa to slave away.
A new study suggests that a million or more European Christians were enslaved by Muslims in North Africa between 1530 and 1780 – a far greater number than had ever been estimated before.
650,000? LMAO. Better recheck those numbers sir, because you're WAY off.
Originally posted by shaluach
reply to post by Skyfloating
I don't think that's supposed to be the implication at all. I think it's pointing out how some White people love to cry reverse racism (while almost always denying that racism itself exists) when what they are complaining about isn't "reverse racism" in the least bit. Then it points out in a very humorous way what would be necessary to exist for White people to truly experience full racism as, for instance, Black people experienced it for hundreds of years. It's basically trying to educate some White people to full the list of atrocities that Black people have experienced in the past few hundred years.
That's my take on it.
"If it hadn't been for Blacks in Africa, the "Atlantic Slave Trade" would never have started.Blacks are, at the least, just as responsible for the "Atlantic Slave Trade" as Whites are!
Anyone that say's any different is only being willfully ignorant!"
Originally posted by PLASIFISK
Wait a minute!!!!
Your telling me..... Africans build ships, so that they could travel to America ( and dump many of them into the sea while chained together is they became sick ) and sell their kin to other africans?
Thats news to me!!!!
I thought white people had something to do with it some how...
Go figure. We are talking about history here right??
Originally posted by kerazeesicko
Basically what I am hearing...is Blacks need to get over it.. Native Americans...get over it..
Yet when it comes to the Jewish holocaust...Never forget. 9/11 never forget.
So you people use the never forget cry...when it suits you...