Posted on 11/15/2014 3:45:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
“trib·al·ism noun: loyalty to a tribe or other social group especially when combined with strong negative feelings for people outside the group” (Merriam Webster Dictionary)
It’s been 151 years since the end of slavery in America. That end, we should understand, came at the cost of 629,000 lives lost in a civil war, the vast majority of those deaths white – not black – soldiers.
While some of black America seem to have gotten the word, a whole lot of others haven’t. Isn’t it time America asked itself, “Why is that?”
Well, one of the reasons is that there is good money in slavery. That was true in the South on the cotton plantations. And it’s even truer today.
•Various reverends have made small fortunes exploiting the myth of slavery today.
•The Democratic Party has obtained political power and made its wealthy, white enablers fortunes at the government feeding trough, once again exploiting the myth of slavery today.
•A host of small to large businesses are now dependent upon “slavery reparations,” also known as welfare dollars, for their existence or profitability.
•Affirmative action has disadvantaged qualified members of other races, both in academia and the workplace, by denying them equal opportunity.
•The myth of modern-day slavery has built a mindset of entitlement and tribalism into black thinking, especially in the inner cities, resulting in a failed worldview that guarantees a life of failure and deprivation....
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1865 was the end of slavery in the US, not 1863. 149 years ago.
>>1865 was the end of slavery in the US, not 1863. <<
Heck it hasn’t even happened by 2014. Self-imposed and self-endorsed slavery IS the Black Experience in the USA.
No one has treated American blacks as horribly as Democrats. In fact, no one has even come close. What Democrats have done, and are still doing, to the black race in America is an absolute tragedy. And by far, the most depraved aspect of it all is that black people have been taught to love their oppressors and believe they are their saviors, and hate those who have literally laid their lives down for their freedom and who still fight for their integrity.
Nope. It's been 150. Slavery didn't end until December of 1865. The last slaves, about 50,000 in KY and DE, were freed in December, 1865.
All other had been freed previously by either the Emancipation Proclamation or state action.
Sorry, post 5. You’re right. My math ability has apparently atrophied.
The confusion stems from the date of the Emancipation Proclamation which occurred in 1863. Then we have the date of the surrender of the Confederacy in 1865, and finally the passage of the 14th amendment which made it a constitutional issue and set equality as the law of the land. I cannot remember the exact year of the 14th amendment.
They have been groobered.
They have been groobered.
Next up in the queue .... Hispanics. Destroy their families, get them on the dole, destroy religious upbringing, get single mom families, etc. and bring them onto the Democratic Hacienda as slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in the states fighting for the South; it didn’t free the slaves in the border states fighting for the North. It was very specific on that point.
When blacks mention “400 years of oppression”, it was much closer to 82 years in terms of the US (the end of the Revolution until the end of the Civil War); if they want to chase down the English, Dutch, and Spanish monarchies that brought slaves here, all the power to them...
That is already well under way; the Republicans will get the Hispanics that came here to earn a better life through hard work, while the Dems will get those who came here for freebies. Unfortunately, the latter outnumber the former.
I recall the South in the 50-early 60’s before LBJ passed Food Stamps, Housing bennies and more handouts for his Great Society starting in late 64.Believe me there were no black men sitting on their ass or women. These folks were working. They damn sure did not get cash for having kids back then nor did they get anything that others did not get. That was real equality.
More correct.
Blacks were wealthy slavers in Africa and it appears they are keeping the tradition alive and well in the US. Ask obama, jackson and sharpton to name a few.
The Emancipation Proclamation did not free anyone immediately but it meant that as the war progressed more and more slaves were freed as the Union armies gained control of those areas. Slavery was probably dead throughout the Confederate States once word came of General Lee's surrender. But there were still some slave owners in the loyal slave states who tried to make their slaves obey them. The ratification of the 13th amendment, in December 1865, officially ended slavery everywhere in the US.
The only slavery that exists today in this country is that of the imperial central government.
There were thousands of black slave owners in this country. Not just whites owned slaves.
One of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's 3 companions who survived enslavement by Texas Indians in the 16th century but eventually escaped to Mexico was a black man. He was later killed by Indians on a later exploration. Not long ago I saw a black professor (maybe Henry Louis Gates) cite this man (Estevanico) as a great black explorer of North America, as if he had been in command of the group.
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