Of Course They Are. You Knew It.

 

1. I don’t mean to play devils advocate but everyone knows only White people can be held responsible for their actions in America.
   All others of color get a Pass.
   

   Posted by Rich K       11/01/2014  at  04:51 AM  



2. Sad - and the useful idiots actually believed that electing a half-African (not from slave descendent) would put an end to the racial divide in America:

   Completely forgetting the Rev Al ‘Tawana Brawley’ Sharpton, the Rev Jessie ‘I want to cut his n*ts off’ Jackson, Rev Jeremiah ‘God Damn America’ Wright, and of course the fav - Rev Louis ‘Hitler was a very great man’ Farrakhan - were all before the big o assumed office and now we have Knockout game, beat downs (such as this article) and of course Trayvon ‘just a kid with his skittles’ Martin and Michael ‘the gentle giant’ Brown (legal and deserved) shootings.

   Sad that people like - Channon Christian and Chris Newsome, both horribly tortured, sexually assaulted and murdered by 5 black subhumans on 6 January 2007 did not gain such National notice.

   Or the 512 (mostly) black men, women and children gunned down in the Chicago streets in 2012 - barely got their names mentioned (except for the poor girl who managed to ‘meet’ the Obama’s just before getting slaughtered and then turned into an anti-gun ‘victim’ pawn).

   I’m sick of the lawlessness allowed in America - Ancient-Origins.net did an article on the white slaves of Barbary - someone in the comment section mentioned that 95% of the 11 million Africans sent across the Atlantic - ended up in Central and South America - not the US. Cuba was a bigger ‘importer’ of slaves, than America was, in that time frame.

   And the US Congress passed a ban on importing more slaves in 1809. Or that the first American to own a slave (Anthony Johnson) was BLACK (former slave, himself) and sued in court to keep his slave, a slave. Not to mention Abolitionists, the Underground Railroad, the free blacks (who were also intermarrying (gasp)), who with the 600,000 Americans who gave their lives in the Civil War - fought to end slavery in America.

   But hey, Whitey’s got to pay for something that pre-dated the Atlantic slave trade (never forget the pyramids were built by slaves - not to mention the Roman aqueducts) and is still going on - mostly in Africa/muslims!

   Posted by wardmama4       11/01/2014  at  09:41 AM  



3. Wardmom, I am with you up until the idea that so many white boys fought that war to end slavery. Not so at all. For most it was the 19th century attitude towards what was then seen as glory. No way were so many willing to risk life and limb for a mere black.
   And please don’t forget, Lincoln priority was not slavery but forcefully holding the union together. Union even all but emptied European jails to fill ranks with promise of land etc. The war aim was union, not slavery, until Gettysburg. War in that time was seen as adventure by the many, a large number of them were barely literate if even that. That is not to say there were no idealists in the army, but never enough to make up an army willing to die for blacks. And BTW, even in the South, the average soldier would likewise not risk life and limb just so that a few wealthy aristocrats could keep their slaves. The rich slaveholder at the time, did not even believe the army would stand and fight, they had so little faith in poor bedraggled mostly illiterate farm boys. Until Bull Run anyway.

   Posted by peiper       11/02/2014  at  01:23 AM  



4. No point in replaying that conflict, but I seem to recall that certain abolitionists were eager to fight even before the war began. Years before, in fact. How many of them, how popular they were, I can’t say. My only point is that the fight “wasn’t about slavery” pretty much just as much as the 2008 election “wasn’t about race”. It was certainly in the air, had been for a long time. A tacit unspoken understanding? (where is our history guy? We haven’t had a visit from “T” in ages! What was his name ... Turtler?) On the Southern side, there was this issue called States Rights. Powers over the central government. That could be things other than slavery, but slavery would certainly be part of it. Just like slavery was core and central to the CSA constitution.

   Posted by Drew458       11/02/2014  at  08:52 AM  



5. I agree peiper - the Civil War was actually about States Rights (which means that the South should have won) - but the distortions of preserving the Union and the ending of slavery is what the winners have etched into history - and so I went with it.

   I have family members who fought for the North (I think one died at Andersonville, but alas don’t have the $$$$$$ to find out) and hubby has family members who fought for the South. It does affect all Americans, not just the black descendants of slaves.

   Most Americans weren’t rich or slave holders back then. The treatment of slaves have been ‘distilled’ down to the worst aspects of it. More distortions and racial divide implications. Because after spending money - and in some cases a lot of money - it would be financially stupid to starve and/or beat unmercifully the people you just purchased to work for you. And if you are so against slavery - why are you harping on an event that was ended in 1865 and not focusing on events of today? The past is the past - we did not live at that time and what happened then, should be a lesson for today’s life - not dwell on as a way to cause hate and mistrust. 

   Stereotyping is wrong - for all. It demeans, belittles and divides.

   But today - we are to accept lies, distortions and corruption - for the ‘common’ good.

   That is even more dangerous than slavery - as it makes everyone from birth to death a slave of people - who aren’t even willing to be honest or up-front about their intentions and beliefs.

   Posted by wardmama4       11/02/2014  at  09:30 AM  



6. Imagine that...North American Ground Apes!

   Posted by Macker       11/03/2014  at  08:54 AM  

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