Posted on 10/17/2013 6:03:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Thirty million people are slaves, half in India: survey
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/thirty-million-people-slaves-half-india-survey-231710875.html
Regarding cycles of poverty and related issues, I’ve heard that the poverty rate is only 5% for people who:
avoid out of wedlock teen pregnancy
graduate from high school
stay out of trouble with the law
are in stable marriages
And the above is true for people of any race or background.
The idea that ghetto blacks are suffering the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow is laughable, but, a big number of liberals and Al Sharpton/Jessie Jackson types push that false narrative.
You mean culture affects lifestyle?
Gates, where have I heard that name before?????????
Ahhhhh Yes Now I remember, He is the guy who got Obama to say the police acted badly when they arrested his racist ass./ Or is that another Henry gates.
It is impossible to tell the truth of slavery in this country. Look at the last attempt ROOTS, it was all all a lie, he lost his lawsuits and in the fullness of time was a proven liar.
500 years ago. That would be in 1513. There were no Africans in Colonial America in 1513. There was no Colonial America in 1513. So whose Slave story is 500 years old?
I’ll take a miss on having more “noble blacks, blame YT” stuffed down my throat.
I caught one of his PBS shows about DNA & ancestry a couple years back; it was actually pretty good. I kept asking myself: how can this guy who seems so high class, laid back, intelligent, with loads of common sense react in such stupid manner when the local cop questioned him when he was caught breaking into his own residence? You see this same violent reaction with many Africans all over the world when they encounter problems. Now I call that genetic also and slavery was never able to breed that trait out.
Is that Prof. Gates, that smooth-talking but self-inflated egotistical black elitist A-hole from Harvard? I won’t be watching.
Not to defend any practices during slavery, but sometimes the BS just gets a little too thick. How did anyone deprive slaves of their last names? The slaves knew what their names were when they arrived in the Americas and only five or six generations lived before they were freed in most cases.
It's hard to believe that last names could not be passed down orally over a few, or even many generations among people who relied on oral history since they had not developed written language.
Sometimes the stories told to make some historical points just don't make sense.
The TV series “Roots” and the name Kunta Kinte comes to mind, doesn’t it?
Actually, the general African slave trade is more than 1,000 years old as it had been going strong for several centuries in the Muslim/Arab world before there was any European and American involvement. White folks were late comers.
When’s somebody going to make a movie called “what actually happened” starring the Spainards?
Yep, and that's probably when I first wondered how anyone could have prevented the slaves from passing on knowledge of their last names and what areas in Africa they had lived before being captured into slavery.
On that one, the slaves apparently just didn't pass on such information, for whatever reason. No one could have prevented that information from being passed on even if they wanted to prevent it.
If Cal Thomas’ impression of this series is correct, it should be required viewing in every school. It is time to tell the Americans of slave-heritage that they should respect the strength and fortitude of their ancestors, and honor them by making their own lives as productive as possible in this new century.
right, every culture from way back took slaves. Egyptians comes to mind with the Jews. But an African American story of 500 years? The tying in America, at least a hundred years before the first Colonists who didn’t have slaves (White poor slaves though)? Semantics maybe, but maybe also misleading?
How do we even know that Africans had surnames centuries ago? Did they have a written language where these tribal people lived? If anything, they probably used a patrynomic system: Bob, son of John = Bob Johnsen Also did their tribal life include the nuclear family, or did the 'village' raise the child?
For that matter, during the Civil War, they were permitted to hunt and kill Yankee soldiers of any stripe, not just runaway slaves who joined up. (Sheesh!)
Here is a link someone posted a few months back that discusses the full 1,400 years of the African slave trade, told mostly by African historians. You have to read subtitles, but it's well worth it for anyone interested in the subject.
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