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NAACP speaker: Don't wait to recognize, fight oppression
The Indiana Pennsylvania Gazette ^ | November 9, 2014 | Chauncey Ross

Posted on 11/09/2014 8:01:32 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Oppression has been a fact of life in America since Europeans first set foot on the continent, and for as long as there have been oppressors and victims, there have been a third group of people — those who stood by and did nothing — according to the guest speaker at the Indiana County NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet.

Dr. challenged the audience even with the title of her talk, “Is There Justice For All?” on Saturday evening at the Indiana Holiday Inn.

Native Americans were the first victims in the western world, she said. Victims of genocide.

Then African-Americans, pressed into slavery, and discriminated against by Jim Crow laws and segregation policies.

Even Japanese-Americans, forced into internment camps during World War II.

Today, African-American men and boys in New York City are prominent victims of oppression, King said. They’re targets of stop-and-frisk racial profiling by the city police, “a policy that has set a standard across the nation for police,” she said.

Today, the faces of oppression have been more personal. Trayvon Martin, in Florida. Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Mo.

“And the list goes on,” King said. “Its no wonder we’re here, questioning, ‘is there justice for all?’ It appears there is a war on our African-American men.”

In more passive ways, King said, ongoing oppression in America is proven statistically. Far more African-Americans are arrested and imprisoned than others. Far more drop out of school and are unemployed. Fewer graduate and go to college.

(Excerpt) Read more at indianagazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: blacks; ferguson; getoverit; naacp; racism
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To: Flag_This

They castrated the males before they marched.


Yep. Arabs were for more brutal to blacks.

Some idiot black men become muslim because they hate whitey. What they don’t realize is that Arabs treated them far worse. Additionally, Arab muslims look down on muslims of other races. THEY WILL ALWAYS LOOK DOWN UPON THE BLACK MUSLIMS.


21 posted on 11/09/2014 8:43:46 PM PST by boycott
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

My advice would be for blacks to stop voting democrat, since that almost always makes things worse.


22 posted on 11/09/2014 8:51:00 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"Oppression has been a fact of life in America since Europeans first set foot on the continent"

Ah-huh. And the Aztecs never waged wars of conquest hundreds of years before the first Spaniard set foot in Americas? The American Indian tribes never traded with English and French settlers for firearms to war against rival tribes? And neither ever took slaves as war prizes?

History. It is not strong with this one!

23 posted on 11/09/2014 9:01:09 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m white, and Mia Love is my representative, God bless her.

Anyone on this planet that wants to make something racial out of that can suck it.


25 posted on 11/09/2014 9:03:09 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_among_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States

“Slavery among Native Americans in the United States includes slavery by Native Americans as well as slavery of Native Americans roughly within the present-day United States. Tribal territories and the slave trade ranged over present-day borders. Some Native American tribes held war captives as slaves prior to and during European colonization, some Native Americans were captured and sold by others into slavery to Europeans, and a small number of tribes, in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, adopted the practice of holding slaves as chattel property and held increasing numbers of African-American slaves.”

(cont)


26 posted on 11/09/2014 9:07:17 PM PST by BwanaNdege (Mother of Epidemics- "Gang Green and the Government Staff Infection" - G. Morgan, Freedom Foundation)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Somehow I think Indians were “oppressing” each other for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.


27 posted on 11/09/2014 9:18:27 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Homosexuals are now gay. Liberals and leftists are now progressives.

No, black people are blacks, "negro is Spanish for black" queers are still faggots, progressives are communists.

If you use the wrong term, the politically correct crowd will call you a bigot for that

Who cares, they're all a bunch of liars, perverts and child molesters.

and disregard the content of what you have to say.

And knowing in advance that there is no chance of changing their minds about anything, that gives you every reason in the world to never have to speak to one again....ever.

28 posted on 11/09/2014 9:41:48 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

BTTT


29 posted on 11/09/2014 10:12:21 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

LBJ called them nigroes.


30 posted on 11/09/2014 10:18:11 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conumdrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Today, African-American men and boys in New York City are prominent victims of oppression,

Black gang members are a MUCH greater danger to them than the po-po.

31 posted on 11/09/2014 10:36:53 PM PST by Impy (Choke on it dems, your tears are delicious)
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To: boycott

They will never thank whitey for anything, then whine when whites give them control of their own areas in the US and they revert to pre-colonial Africa conditions. They no longer want white political representation or police presence, just white money for freebies.

America’s race issues are so “September 10th”; nobody even pretends to care anymore.


32 posted on 11/10/2014 4:11:11 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

They will never thank whitey for anything, then whine when whites give them control of their own areas in the US and they revert to pre-colonial Africa conditions.


I guess they prefer to live in places like Haiti and Detroit.

Yep. Sooner or later, this powder keg is going to blow.

I have friends that never owned a gun or wanted to that are now stocked up with weapons and ammo. Our government and the media try to hide all the black violence but most people are aware. It’s like the 800 LB gorilla in the room — kind of hard not to notice. Obama and the democrats have made it worse. It’s almost like they want to.


33 posted on 11/10/2014 6:03:59 AM PST by boycott
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To: Dilbert San Diego

dear dil,
In the vernacular of that most hallowed, honored, and brilliant juror named jeanette:

‘d’ey’s ain’t black enuf!’


34 posted on 11/10/2014 6:49:56 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: boycott

Liberal whites here in the northeast are libs on everything but race; NJ only outlawed slavery 15 years before the Civil War, and the bottom of the state is below the Mason-Dixon line if drawn straight out from PA.


35 posted on 11/10/2014 6:05:47 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Whites in the northeast are the ones to first bring slaves to the USA.

The main reason they backed away from African slaves is because of higher skilled cheap European immigrant labor at the start of the Industrial Age.

Additionally, some of the greatest violence against blacks was in the northeast.

They won the war so they got to write the history.


36 posted on 11/10/2014 6:14:11 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

Whites essentially quarantined blacks up here; there has never been integration (and I doubt there ever will be). It exists only on the books; the reality is much different. Here in NJ we’ve had our own miniature version of the South Boston busing issues; any white population that even hears a rumor of busing withdraws their children from the impacted district.


37 posted on 11/10/2014 6:21:23 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Over the years, I’ve traveled the nation on business. The northeast is far more divided than the south.

I believe racism is greater in the north too. I would hear things up north that I never could image hearing in the south. I’ve known blacks too that have told me that people are much nicer to them in the south. They would never want to move back up north.


38 posted on 11/10/2014 6:36:40 PM PST by boycott
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To: boycott

Frederick Douglas himself pointed out the hypocrisy of northern whites, championing Southern blacks while denying them any sort of equality (or welcome) in the North. It was going on that long ago.

Much of the problems faced in the Northern cities was the arrival of so many blacks to work in factories that soon closed; rather than move on to greener pastures they’ve languished here. The point right before the hollowing out of our manufacturing base was probably the high point of black American advancement in the North itself.


39 posted on 11/10/2014 6:42:06 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: ealgeone

You can still be polite, you don’t have to mention their color at all, or just “black” however:

They ain’t never been to Africa a day in their life.


40 posted on 11/10/2014 8:20:36 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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