Posted on 12/01/2014 12:33:36 PM PST by EternalVigilance
Chris Rock explained in a lengthy interview Sunday that he believes part of healing racial relations in America is by white people “owning” the actions of their ancestors.
The black comedian told New York magazine’s Frank Rich that racial progress in America is “nonsense” and that the only thing that’s changed is white people aren’t as crazy as they used to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
The slaves were captured by the various tribes in Africa then sold to whoever around the world. Still goes on today.
Chris, a small white family does not live out in the middle of nowhere outnumbered and surrounded by slaves with no one to help you survive and uprising or sabotage if they hate you. If they were not treated well.... you die. They only farmers or plantation owners that could afford treating their workers horribly were large operations. Do you even understand how few and far between that type of operation was compared to the normal slave owner?
After the Civil war do you know how many "slaves" stayed with the families they served on those country farms?????????? The houses around our family farm still had descendants in the 80's.
You want to live your life as a down-trodden group who never out grow your slave mentality that is your choice. I personally am not keeping you there and could care less my ancestors owned slaves so many generations ago I never met one.
It is time complaining blacks either go back to Africa or take charge of being productive members of society because I am tired of the productive workers today, being the slaves to a group of people who sit on their ass collect a subsistence, destroy their families and society and then complain they are not wealthy or treated as good citizens because the rest of us are racist instead of just afraid of their lawless neighborhoods and are watchful for danger.
I feel sorry for the blacks that are productive members of society being pulled down by a community that can not see what they have today in the USA if they only took the opportunity to grab it and work their tail off for the American dream. It is not past slave owner families harming those good people it is the black cry-me -a-river, thug, welfare community.
I am sick to death of the race baiters in the USA....guess to a liberal that makes me racist.
Okay, my ancestors on both sides of the family, who worked their own farms and NEVER owned a slave, fought against the invasion of South Carolina. I picked cotton on the little family farm alongside my mother and my older brother, sometimes we had some black people helping, they were hired and paid by the pound. My father weighed what they picked and paid by the pound for every ounce of cotton, he did not cheat anybody, he also often gave them sweet potatoes from our harvest or other food items given as bonuses, not deducted from their pay. He also did not call them names, unlike Chris Rock who goes on stage and calls white people all kinds of names, the nicest of which is honkie. I own that, now it’s Mr. Rock’s turn. Chris Rock often displays more pure racism in one performance than I ever saw both my parents display in all the years I knew them.
My ancestors never owned slaves either but they had to fight against the North on their own home land. Only a small percentage of whites in the South ever owned slaves, many were worse off than slaves before the war and a huge percentage of both black and white were worse off after the war than slaves were before the war. I never heard of a black person who shared my last name until I saw one on television. I have never heard of one who came from my state even though the county in which I was born has more people with that surname than any other county on Earth except one county in England. I have never once heard of a black person anywhere who carries my mother’s maiden name. In short my family worked their own land, they did not own slaves.
“My ancestors were too damn poor to own slaves.”
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Mine too, in fact MOST people in the South were too poor to own slaves. We all have suffered because a very small percentage of people in the South owned slaves, there were slave owners in Northern states too but that is almost never acknowledged now just as the fact that there were black slaveowners is almost never acknowledged.
Will Chris Rock acknowledge that Africa’s “slave-catchers” were all black men of the same ilk as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson?
No?
The exploitation of blacks BY BLACKS has a long, sordid history that continues in Africa to this very day.
“Lawyer Benjamin Algonquin J. Crump”
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Never heard of him, must be from Detroit, could you possibly have him confused with attorney Algonquin J. Calhoun of Chicago who sometimes represented certain unfortunate members of the Mystic Knights of the Sea?
my ancestors weren’t here until 1925.
how are today’s blacks owning their actions?
Then why make a point of posting that your ancestors served the Union Army and did not own slaves if not to separate yourself from those whose ancestors did?
Your not alone. Many on this forum do what you did. It sounds like you are saying, “it doesn’t matter but if it does than I am not guilty”.
Before Chris points his nasty finger at whites for slavery in history, he should pull the log out of his own eye. He must take on the guilt of all the dead people Africa who dealt in slavery in history AND then he must take on the guilt for all the sins of Africans in MODERN DAY who continue to deal in slavery. You first, Chris.
We don't even have the same vocabulary.
My ancestors immigrated during the 1840s...just in time to fight a war...on the Union side.
That doesn't make me eligible for VA benefits...any more than it makes Barack Obama a descendent of slaves.
You and various race hustlers are the only ones who care. The rest of us are getting pretty tired of your cr@p.
I'll bet you live in a lot nicer house than I do...which one of us is oppressed?
Let’s have this idiot own the actions of John Muhammad and Lee Malvo.
+1
Much more likely.
I’ll bet that the overwhelming majority of Americans, black AND white, have one or more slaveholders somewhere in their family trees.
And not a soul alive today, black or white, is responsible for any of that.
People can’t change the past, and no one gets to choose who their parents and forebears are.
Holy Mackel, Sapphire, I done confused myself. Andy, what I gonadoo? Now I gots to stick wit Crump!
This isn't very ancient history. The Kenya/Mombasa Slave trade was only almost completely suppressed by the 1920s. Records show an Obama or two arrested, tried and imprisoned for slaving. Unfortunately, slavery still exists in both East and West Africa. Slave traders still supply local markets and the Islamic world.
Our exalted Leader makes much of his Luo heritage, including his family ties to the Marxist/Jihadi Raila Odinga, for whom he campaigned (illegally) in Kenya. After Odinga's loss in the elections of 2006, Odinga led an insurrection in which thousands of Christians were massacred. Cousin Barry, then led a Soros-financed Campaign in the UN and our own DoS to have Odinga made Prime Minister, despite his election loss. He was an honored guest at the first Inauguration.
Slavery? The Obama Family knows all about it on the wholesale side.
PS: You won't read about it anywhere else but on this site. Wonder why?
As recently as my great-grandparents, we were dirt-poor sharecroppers in MS. My family certainly weren’t slave owners. And that’s going back almost a century. Let’s look at some violent crime stats from the past couple of months, shall we, Mr. Rock?
"The slave does not dream of being free. The slave dreams of being the master."
Chris is confused.
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