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.
(Excerpt) Read more at theroot.com ...
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?
Michael Harriot is a racist.
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
Who is this nutjob????
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.
Let me see...what’s it called when one makes a derogatory generalization about a specific ethnic group...?
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.
This is a long standing southernism.
It’s a trap from Satan, a hair of the dog that bit him, loaded with the same rabies.
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.
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.
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
Hey, guy, drink some “Round Up” will you. You have some real racist problems with your Roots.
Just another pathetic and petty racist trying to justify his racism....
>>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.
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.
Another drive-by gnashing of teeth from a race pimp.go back to your mud hut and bone piercings.
LOL, good point...
“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.
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