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originally posted by: majkaveli
a reply to: LesMisanthrope
Everyone knows about it, what matters in our society, in the United States is black slavery, because to this day, blacks are marginalized. You think the 12 year old kid would have been shot were he white? Most likely not, but he was black, and the brains of the cops were programmed to see thug.
You can spin it anyway you want but it doesn't change a thing, black lives matters is a direct result of racism in America especially by the authorities just as the Black Panthers were during the civil rights struggle.
originally posted by: 123143
a reply to: Indigo5
He predicts it because he knows damn well it is an issue.
originally posted by: majkaveli
a reply to: UKTruth
Read my statement again, I am in no way saying the guy isn't an idiot. Look at OP and how he introduced the article, when I hear anti-white its like hearing Christians being repressed in the united states.
Its like a bully trying to justify bullying others all his life because someone told him he couldn't bully anymore.
originally posted by: majkaveli
a reply to: Puppylove
We are only talking about racism in the united states and the only slaves the US used were Black, Natives made for horrible slaves, they were strong willed and refused to work, thus, they were exterminated.
What you are makes no difference, I don't see humanity divided by race, but most people do,
Denying that racism is still a problem in this country will make for one rude awakening when they had enough and start fighting back.
I for one, cannot wait for the day
originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: forkedtongue
You don't know what you're talking about. No amount of unnecessary spaces are going to add validity to your argument. Since you choose to bring up Lee in your bullsh#t revisionist history argument, let's see what the man himself said about the reasons for secession.
Robert E. Lee in a letter dated December 27, 1856:
I was much pleased the with President's message. His views of the systematic and progressive efforts of certain people at the North to interfere with and change the domestic institutions of the South are truthfully and faithfully expressed. The consequences of their plans and purposes are also clearly set forth. These people must be aware that their object is both unlawful and foreign to them and to their duty, and that this institution, for which they are irresponsible and non-accountable, can only be changed by them through the agency of a civil and servile war. There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. While my feelings are strongly enlisted in behalf of the latter, my sympathies are more deeply engaged for the former. The blacks are immeasurably better off here than in Africa, morally, physically, and socially.
He's referring to President Franklin Pierce who was an anti-abolitionist, notable for supporting the right of the former Indian Territories to determine whether or not to allow slavery (Kansas–Nebraska Act) and for his support for the Fugitive Slave Act.
Of course, like many others of his time, though he viewed slavery as wrong, he justified its existence in part by holding that African slaves were better off as slaves in America than free people in Africa (the mid-19th century fear of white guilt?).
He didnt do it because he wanted slaves, he did it because he didnt want Virginia ruled by washington.
Contort all you want, in the end it all comes back to one thing — the only sovereign "right" the seceding states cared to preserve was the "right" to preserve the institution of African slavery which was the backbone of their agrarian economies. Robert E. Lee clearly knew what you cannot bring yourself to admit and he was pretty deep in denial (he also believed that Christianity would bring about an end to slavery when God deemed it).
originally posted by: 13SpySchools
I thought this was going to be about Obama when I read the thread title. I'm not sure if I can handle another one of his lectures on how accommodating I need to be to people who want to kill me. Even if he is actually the one responsible for creating ISIS.
originally posted by: majkaveli
So many closet racist n one thread to jump on the bandwagon. History does show that white Europeans have been exploiting humans from other continents for eons, slavery has been around since humanity has existed but no one has profited so much from it then White people, denying it means denying your entire history.
All empires have been built on the backs of slaves and the best empires were built by white Europeans.
originally posted by: theySeeme
a reply to: SprocketUK
I swear I suspect alot of in the closet-non-man-enough-to-admit-I-am-racist behavior going on here, all over this letter a professor wrote -
well check this out, let me let logic speak for itself
If this story were about a Muslim, and the letter was addressed to all Americans, would you still be offended? Most likely not, atleast not as emotionally affected as so many of you seem by this story. And yet, what's the difference?
We see women post stories in similar format, addressed to men - as if all men are the same, are those who are offended by this offended by those too? Tell us, OP, where did you find this website? Was it shared on a racist website? Let's be honest here.
originally posted by: SprocketUK
originally posted by: majkaveli
So many closet racist n one thread to jump on the bandwagon. History does show that white Europeans have been exploiting humans from other continents for eons, slavery has been around since humanity has existed but no one has profited so much from it then White people, denying it means denying your entire history.
All empires have been built on the backs of slaves and the best empires were built by white Europeans.
Boo bloody hoo.
Grow a pair.
My ancestors were trodden down in the mud by the rich folks who owned the land they worked on.
You go back 3 generations and my great granny lost almost half her babies because of malnutrition and overwork.
2 generations and my great uncle was killed in a war that was nowt to do with him, while 2 of my great grandads had to live with ptsd and be worked to death after the war, then my grandparents suffered through another war and were the first generation of my famly to actually climb out of poverty.
Oh, wait, I can't blame a racial group for that, can I?
Neither can any black person. Figure out who your enemy is lest you make enemies of us all.
originally posted by: Jahari
originally posted by: SprocketUK
originally posted by: majkaveli
So many closet racist n one thread to jump on the bandwagon. History does show that white Europeans have been exploiting humans from other continents for eons, slavery has been around since humanity has existed but no one has profited so much from it then White people, denying it means denying your entire history.
All empires have been built on the backs of slaves and the best empires were built by white Europeans.
Boo bloody hoo.
Grow a pair.
My ancestors were trodden down in the mud by the rich folks who owned the land they worked on.
You go back 3 generations and my great granny lost almost half her babies because of malnutrition and overwork.
2 generations and my great uncle was killed in a war that was nowt to do with him, while 2 of my great grandads had to live with ptsd and be worked to death after the war, then my grandparents suffered through another war and were the first generation of my famly to actually climb out of poverty.
Oh, wait, I can't blame a racial group for that, can I?
Neither can any black person. Figure out who your enemy is lest you make enemies of us all.
What's your point? Don't you know blacks have gone through the same things you named plus slavery, Jim crow, segregation etc.
originally posted by: Jahari
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: majkaveli
So many closet racist n one thread to jump on the bandwagon. History does show that white Europeans have been exploiting humans from other continents for eons, slavery has been around since humanity has existed but no one has profited so much from it then White people, denying it means denying your entire history.
All empires have been built on the backs of slaves and the best empires were built by white Europeans.
Obviously slavery is travesty of humanity, and no one is exempt. But to be fair it was white Europeans who were the first to abolish slavery in the history of the universe, while everyone else, including black africans (as late as 1980) continued on. Yet no one mentions the Ottoman empire's slave trade. No one mentions the Brazilian slave trade. Without white Europeans, slavery would still be going on.
Slaves your referring to wasn't treated as subhuman like here.