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White People Are Cowards
The Root ^ | 6/19/2018 | Michael Harriot

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: antiwhite; commiepropaganda; race; stopwhiteshaming
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To: Altura Ct.

http://originalpeople.org/the-arab-muslim-slave-trade-of-africans-the-untold-story/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

https://www.newenglishreview.org/Emmet_Scott/The_African_Slave_Trade:_The_Islamic_Connection/

I’m sure Louis Farrakhan is aware of this history, yet he is Muslim?????

Will hypocrisies never cease among?


141 posted on 06/20/2018 7:20:17 PM PDT by Puckster
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To: Altura Ct.

Michael Harriot is a racist.


142 posted on 06/20/2018 8:07:20 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

Dont you remember the last presidential election?

Where lib cities allowed little Commie brown shirts to
attack Trump supporters and destroy property without
a peep from 0 and Granny Pickles, and Ted Cruz
and Lil Foam Party boy said Trumpers incited it?

This outrage started with the Occufilth


143 posted on 06/20/2018 8:47:36 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: Altura Ct.

Who is this nutjob????


144 posted on 06/20/2018 8:49:42 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Altura Ct.
Little Amber and Connor’s résumés don’t get tossed in the trash because of their black-sounding names

No, those are not black names, those are ghetto names made up by ghetto pregnant teens starting around the 1970's.

Before then, you couldn't find a black person named "Quaneesha" or "L'etron'te" or whatever stupidity thought up by the minds of dunderhead teenagers.

145 posted on 06/20/2018 8:55:05 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: Altura Ct.

Let me see...what’s it called when one makes a derogatory generalization about a specific ethnic group...?


146 posted on 06/20/2018 9:01:58 PM PDT by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: Altura Ct.

Well the first slavery case in the future USA was about a black slave of a black owner.

Yes, it was a mistake not to have kiboshed the idea from the start. But we are where we are. A spiritual fix is the only fix.


147 posted on 06/20/2018 10:08:54 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: PallMal

This is a long standing southernism.


148 posted on 06/20/2018 10:10:06 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Puckster

It’s a trap from Satan, a hair of the dog that bit him, loaded with the same rabies.


149 posted on 06/20/2018 10:12:18 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: Altura Ct.

The author want a fight that nobody is looking for and might I say that author is pretty stupid. Good luck with that race war that isn’t going to happen. People are woke.including black people.


150 posted on 06/20/2018 10:15:49 PM PDT by CJ Wolf (Free)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.

It ought to have died in Christendom with Paul’s admonition “Giving up threatening.” Service was to be VOLUNTARY in Christendom. So yes this was early modern Christendom’s bad. Fundamentalism forgot to be fundamentalist here.


151 posted on 06/20/2018 10:17:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: SkyPilot
Back in the bad old days on a campus at ground zero on the dawn of the political correctness movement and we had to put with this sort BS from the faculty and the Black Student Union all of whom copped a brotha can’t get a break attitude while on full ride scholarships to an elite institution

My racist, white privileged ass was volunteering on the mean streets of the local ghetto trying to help kids escape living hell in the middle of the crack cocaine gang wars

Never saw any of the black race voters go anywhere near that hell hole and try to help lift disadvantaged black ghetto kids of the horrors of ghetto life - they were all too busy protesting and pushing a far left agenda

Most of the other volunteers were white or Asian Christians and most were women .

All of were threatened on a semi regular basis

Under the circumstances it’s no stretch to say those women were literally putting their lives on the line

They were fearless and would not back away from going nose to noise with gang bangers,crips or bloods,attempting to recruit or intimidate their kids

My admiration for these selfless people remains till this day

As does my utter contempt for the entire class of hypocritical black race baiters

152 posted on 06/20/2018 11:00:47 PM PDT by rdcbn
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To: Altura Ct.

Hey, guy, drink some “Round Up” will you. You have some real racist problems with your Roots.


153 posted on 06/21/2018 12:49:28 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Altura Ct.

Just another pathetic and petty racist trying to justify his racism....


154 posted on 06/21/2018 2:39:53 AM PDT by trebb (Too many "Conservatives" who think their opinions outweigh reality these days...)
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To: Altura Ct.

>>as if the white people of the past couldn’t quite grasp the idea of inhumanity and brutality until 1861.

This idiot should learn his history. The abortion movement in the US began long before 1861.

He should also learn his anthropology and sociology. Black people still don’t think slavery is evil in some parts of the world—as long as they get to own the slaves.


155 posted on 06/21/2018 3:25:45 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: Altura Ct.
Systematic injustice keeps black people in their place

Systemic injustice only exists because black people largely block-vote for the Democrat Party.

That's what's keeping them on the plantation and "in their place" as the author states.

If you really want off the plantation and live a dignified life of responsible behavior, work and the rewards of work which means getting off welfare, then stop voting Democrat.

It's really that simple.

156 posted on 06/21/2018 3:43:45 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Altura Ct.

Another drive-by gnashing of teeth from a race pimp.go back to your mud hut and bone piercings.


157 posted on 06/21/2018 3:46:18 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: Oratam

LOL, good point...


158 posted on 06/21/2018 1:06:58 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
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To: Puckster

“Can we keep it?”

Nope.

The experiment has failed. Now, we wait for our Sulla or Cromwell, our Franco or our Lenin.

The die is cast.


159 posted on 06/23/2018 8:38:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers)
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