What would America miss if Blacks left the country? Outside of sports, not much. And we would save trillions in welfare subsidies, remedial education programs, the criminal justice system, and prisons, while enjoying a much lower crime rate and a more citizen culture.
Why should we keep paying for the sins of African warlords, English slavers, and Southern plantation owners of 200 years ago? We have paid too much for too little value.
I think collectively it’s time to stand up to them. Quit recoiling at being called racist, and bending over backwards a million times over to prove that you’re not.
We need one official “Get Over It” Day. Tell them the same laws apply to all - if you want to think we’re racists, so be it. We won’t even attempt to change your mind. It’s that fear of being called a racist that gives them power. Honestly, it’s enough to make you become a racist!
Beat me to it.
“Why should we keep paying for the sins of African warlords, English slavers, and Southern plantation owners of 200 years ago?”
http://www.tufts.edu/alumni/magazine/summer2010/features/slavery.html
“Massachusetts became the first colony to legalize human bondage when it established the Body of Liberties, its first code of laws, in 1641. From that time until the state proscribed slavery in 1783, the slave trade was big business in the North, particularly in Boston and Rhode Island. Fully three-quarters of all New England exports circa 1770 were linked to it. Most slave ships were built in the region, and the bulk of the exported livestock, sawn boards, and grains went to the Caribbean to support the production of sugar, the raw material essential to the making of rum, the favored medium of exchange for buying slaves. More than four-fifths of the rum distilled went to Africa.”
http://www.academia.edu/2299629/RUM_AND_THE_AFRICAN_SLAVE_TRADE_-_THE_CURRENCY_OF_NEW_ENGLAND
“Molasses, a by-product of the sugar refining process, was initially just productionrefuse until some inventive Celtic worker in Barbados thought it could be fermented anddistilled into a alcoholic spirit (Williams xiv). It was this spirit that fueled the slave tradebecause of its profitability, portability, trade capability, and its distance to the source of itsproduction kept it conveniently out of site, allowed New England and citizens to prosper without having to directly dirty their hands in the horrendous slave trade”