Posted on 06/20/2018 3:57:46 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
I thought white people were evil. I was wrong. Whenever anyone mentions the historical atrocity of chattel slavery, white people will emerge from the dark crevices of humanity to gnaw away at the assertion like roaches on a discarded Cheeto. They will explain how most white people didn’t own slaves. They will offer a convoluted explanation about the Confederacy and Southern heritage. They will introduce the concept of “presentism”—the idea that we shouldn’t judge the actions of people in the past using modern-day standards—as if the white people of the past couldn’t quite grasp the idea of inhumanity and brutality until 1861.
Everyone knew that slavery was evil. Everyone knew that Jim Crow was evil. Everyone knew that lynching was evil. Everyone knows that any kind of injustice or inequality is evil. These things persist because most white people don’t actively fight to eradicate them.
And most white people don’t actively fight to eradicate inequality and injustice because they usually benefit in some small way. The Southern economy was built on evil slavery. Jim Crow laws maintained a national order with white people firmly planted atop the social hierarchy. Systematic injustice keeps black people in their place, but it also comforts white people to know that the big black bogeymen are being kept behind bars...
...They know the reality of disproportionate police brutality, but they don’t have to worry about their children being shot in the face. Their kids receive good educations. Their kids can wear hoodies whenever they please. Little Amber and Connor’s résumés don’t get tossed in the trash because of their black-sounding names. Their children’s futures are determined only by work ethic and ability. Therefore, they stay silent on the sidelines.
That’s not evil.
That is cowardice.
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Do it elsewhere so conservative ideas can rule on FR.
It’s the only place we have.
At least slaves went to work.
If black people put as much effort into doing something constructive as they do thinking up ridiculous reasons that whites are to blame for their failures, they might not be failures.
May be one day he can practice what he preaches.Somehow I doubt it.
. . . and that's because it only exists outside Western Civilization and is practiced exclusively by non-white peoples.
It’s not just slavery. Everything whites do is considered hatefilled to him. Whites have no right to live, because he’s jealous and envious. Sad to see a man lick the boots.
More to the point, does he know black people are murdering other black people in numbers beyond belief? That the HUGE majority of murderers of blacks are other blacks?
Or that WHITES stopped slavery, to the extent it has been stopped, while many blacks profited by it?
I forgot, don’t engage w/ you. Your craziness is outstanding!
What about black people who sold other black people into slavery. Were they cowards too in your mind?
lol
slavery existed for all of human history...
UNTIL WHITE PEOPLE ENDED IT.
Seems the author thinks that slavery started in the American South. Slavery has been a common institution among all races for as long as there have been people. It was white Christians that finally decided to put a stop to it (at least in the civilized world).
That is a correct synopsis of the ideology that its proponents usually summarize colloquially by saying Kill Whitey.
Racist drivel but it’s tolerated and celebrated by the left because that’s who they are. So sad!
I believe you may be overestimating on the half wit. This one strikes me as less than a quarter wit-and that’s being generous!
Exactly, thank you! This author is obviously so overcome with one singular facet of his being that the other facets have withered away in his mind. Being black is the only characteristic he uses to justify his tirade. It’s a shame he can’t focus on the positive aspects of his race, as well as his gender and nationality. That would be a basis for actual pride!
From my misspent youth:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death I shall fear no evil, because I am the evilest son-of-a-bitch in the valley.
I wish I could send his black a$$ to a plantation in the deep south circa 1830.
See if THEY put up with his bullcrap.
In the history of civilization....has any civilization/nation gone to war against itself, civil war, to rid itself of slavery?
Was there slavery? Yes! Was it eliminated? Yes! Was there prejudice? Yes! Was it eliminated? No!
All tones of skin are guilty of it.
Christ hasn’t returned.
This never was a perfect nation....a Republic....not a democracy.
Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Can we keep it? Despite Franklin’s moral flaws....however....he was wise enough to have perceived....
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. ”
Socialism, right or left, fascism or communism, both are Godless, however, they do love their gods....eerrrrr, those with humongous egos.
Just another race hustling poverty pimp.
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