Posted on 08/03/2013 3:44:09 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
From Parade Magazine...
Oprah's "education" is mind-numbingly nonexistent.
After bragging about knowing "her history" and the history of blacks, oops, I mean "african Americans," Oprah goes on to say... 1. Can't use the n word around her because that is the last word that MILLIONS of people heard as they swung from a tree. Really? Millions? 2. Back in the 60s, blacks didn't say "niggah, please," they said "negro, please." Who has ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever heard one black say to another black, "negro, please"?
You ought to send that to Oprah’s publicist (Oprah won’t read it)
Correct. As were the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings.
I should have said “public or semi-public nature,” as many of the earlier lynchings were more or less in the nature of a public ceremonial occasion, with open of tacit cooperation of local law enforcement.
I also think it is relevant that at minimum some large percentage, quite probably a majority, of those who were lynched thoroughly deserved execution for their crimes. While never in favor of vigilante justice, those who were lynched for murder or other heinous crimes have no particular moral right to decry the injustice.
Another percentage, impossible to quantify at this point in time, were innocent bystanders, or people who had committed a crime not deserving of execution. And their lynchings most certainly were a miscarriage of justice.
Lynchings, like the McCarthy Red Scare, have been exploited by anti-American ideologues to impugn the morality of the entire American system and society. While horrible things, both are pretty small beer in any rational historical or worldwide comparison of atrocities.
dude, I bet most blacks think the US was the only country to ever have slavery
In actual fact, only about 5% of all African shipped to the New World came to what is not the United States. 95% went to the Caribbean or Latin America.
And slaves in those areas were mistreated much more brutally, as can be easily seen by the differential reproduction rate. Slaves in the Caribbean and Brazil were worked to death so quickly they had to be continually replenished by new imports just to keep up their numbers.
Meanwhile, the slaves in North America underwent a massive population explosion, equivalent in size to that of their white masters. AFAIK, this is the only slave society in history to even reproduce itself, much less grow in size.
The US slave owners generally wanted the slaves to breed because it was cheaper than importing them I suppose. The same way you wouldn’t kill off the cows, horses and field hands - just bad for business.
There is also the fact that North America was the most distant market for slaves, and therefore they were most expensive there.
For Caribbean and (especially) Brazilian slaveowners, it was cheaper and easier to just work slaves to death and buy new ones.
Anywho, the fact that slaves were able in America to survive and thrive sufficiently to reproduce in large numbers indicates by definition that conditions were much less harsh there than in the other market areas.
According to PBS, the loss rate across the Atlantic was about 10-20%, which sounds about right. So we're talking about around 100K deaths, not hundreds of millions.
Remember, the slaves were valuable cargo, and the captain would only be paid for the ones who arrived in acceptable condition, so the crew tried hard to keep them alive and healthy.
So the total number lynched over 86 years was around half the number killed by other blacks in 2011.
Judging from black crime rates, a 70/30 split probably approximates the proportions between races for offenses that were likely to result in summary execution if caught in the act.
damn right... i once read some imbecile say they threw so many dead slaves overboard that to this very day it has changed the pattern of shark feeding grounds so that they still follow along sea lanes the slave ships took looking for dead slaves!!! words fail
Yes, but they race hustlers and their friends in the leftist media only care about those who were killed by whites, including "white Hispanics". We know this to be true because the deaths of these blacks are completely ignored while 24/7 focus was on the occasional white killing black as witnessed in the thug Martin case.
Over a period of 100 years, even a high-end estimate of 120K dead slaves means about 1.2K bodies overboard per year, which would not be significant in a big ocean.
let alone hundreds of years later...
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