Did you know lots of black people taken as slaves were captured by other black people? And then sold to all the other countries that had slaves, (The USA wasn't the only country to use slavery, and blacks weren't the only race ever enslaved) So all you pussies need to grow the fuck up, realize the world is a big stinking piece of shit that has everybody at each others throats constantly, because greedy CEOs and corrupt political figures make it so with their greed that strips away from the common man, so with that said, why don't you get the fuck off this site and stop just bitching about the way people are, and actually try to change something for the better, unlike this useless forum post.
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11 Jan 2012 7:39AM
i agree with almost everything your saying but what you need to remember is yes people of all colors have brought and sold others but only Britain and the usa continued the the trade for 300years, both these countries are rich today because of the slave trade and the only reason they stopped was because slaves began to burn the plantations they worked on (it was no longer economically viable). People are angry because the racist system is still in full swing and how can the powerless and disfranchised put up a fight against years of racism and fascist governments.
It is truly sad that black people who are stereotyped don't fight the stereotype but i can understand when you see your own self image in the mass media portrayed as single mother, gang member, criminal, lazy and unable of doing any better.
The day people can see that the rich and powerful want us to fight, hate and kill each other we can all no matter what color take back the power over our own lives.
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11 Jan 2012 10:17AM
Your understanding of the history of slavery and the slave trade is sorely lacking.
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11 Jan 2012 12:29PM
hows that then? slave history is much more than the dribble they force feed children in schools.
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11 Jan 2012 2:02PM
1) "both these countries are rich today because of the slave trade": They became rich from "free labor" as well. The implication that they became rich only from slavery is false. 2) "the only reason they stopped was because slaves began to burn the plantations they worked on (it was no longer economically viable)": You seem to be making two claims here, both of them false. Abolition was not a result of slave rebellions. There were rebellions in the West Indies, but the reason Britain abolished slavery was because of increasing moral and political objections to it. See the career of Wilberforce, for example. In the US, slave rebellions were practically nonexistent (only Stono, Nat Turner, and one in Louisiana were of any significance). Abolition came because of increasing Northern opposition to slavery and its spread. Even in Brazil, where there were significant rebellions, abolition came as a result of moral and political opposition, not as a result of anything the slaves did. As far as slavery being uneconomic, the work of Fogel and Genovese puts that old notion completely to rest.
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11 Jan 2012 7:52AM
Color is developed through environment over generations, as are certain physical and mental traits according to requirement and survival. The darkest people in hotter countries with longer day light hours, the lightest in colder with shorter day light hours, the physically strong form countries where for example you have to hunt and kill to eat, the more intelligent (intelligence according to what is needed in western countries) in more built up modern countries with technology and standard education for all.
Now through migration, slavery, immigration, invasion ect we all live together and most of these traits have blended and changed depending on where we live. Unfortunately color is one of the oldest human traits and is still around.
All countries on this planet were part of one continent africa but over hundreds of thousands of years the land has moved apart. Proving we are all human and once all the same color but still people feel to use race as a tool to beat others over the head with. Its nothing more than basic science and the day all people have equal right, vioces, education and power we will see that.
