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Originally posted by yatzr
buddha, you tell people to look outside the box when you never take a glance outside your own. Yes, slavery was bad. It was horrible, and I too wish it didn't happen. I'm not trying to make you think it wasn't bad. All I'm saying is that there has been at least ONE benefit from it.
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And guess WHO has benefited more than the Black Americans than the Blacks for being here?
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Originally posted by phyzix525
That is the attitude that we are sick and tired of hearing. poor us everyone hates us and nobody gives us anything. Blacks have the same opportunites as anyone else, in fact maybe more. Its not as if you don't have the chance to get a good education, there are plenty of black only scolorship programs, and now with affirmative action, its not like you can't get a decent job and make a good living. Its the black peoples choice to do what they want with there lives and not expect hand-outs like so many of them do. (including these eight) Even when trying to start your own business the government is more likely to loan you money if you are black or a woman. Us white males are discrimiated against too. Funny though you don't hear us crying about it so often.
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First off, Why do you think something like AFFIRMATIVE ACTION was created? Because people like you "white guys" still wouldn't even honor The Constitution or the Ammendments that said you have to treat Blacks as equals, so you were "forced" to do it. (oh BOO-HOO.. it's not fair, Blacks have A.A. and now they have it a bit easier now.) If you started fair from the begining, shit like that wouldn't have to be "forced" on society..
Second, the schools are not giving the SAME levels of education to minorities as they have for Caucasians. Teachers don't give the same intensity of instructions to minorities in school. Black scholarships were created by Blacks because Caucasians STILL don't allow Blacks to go to certain schools. You say these eight are looking for hand-outs, what about all those businesses that went to Africa and got their hand-out and profitted from slavery? (Someone held up a sign and said "Come to Africa, we want to work for free..?) When they saw they can get slaves AND not pay them, they sent FLEETS of ships over there and didn't ask the people if they wanted to come over..
Thirdly, TODAY'S society is still STACKED in the caucasian's favor
so you get a break more often than a minority. And you know that, so that's why we don't hear you crying about it so much.
Remeber this?
"Give me your tired, your poor, huddled masses..."
Of all the ethnicities that makes this great country, (Jews, Gentiles, German, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Spanish, etc...)
Besides the true first Americans,: WHICH ethnic group that has been here before America's first 13 states where even formed, WAS FORCED here and ENSLAVED?
Land of the free? Not for them.... Now when they all profit and MADE profit from selling, shipping and insuring farmowners "their" Blacks, even traded them like livestock (even which livestock was better treated and fed better.) you want Blacks to turn a blind eye to it? You want to say, "That was the past, so lets get by it and start anew? You recall Sept. 11th? Think that was an atrocity?
Slavery has killed more Blacks than al Qaeda..
All in the name of business....
Here's something to give you to think about....
I had 2 of my grandfather's brothers go out like that.
Why? Just because they where Black and American Indian and they were told they couldn't "own" the land they lived on and were killed for it, and was being "forced" into slavery even though neither of them were ever a slave.
Guess what grows in this land they were own?
Tobacco. Guess who owns it now?
Many Black Slaves that were "freed" never gotten that promised the STATES made to own land and a mule. Tell me what agreement the STATES ever made they carried through? Not to the Indians, not to the Blacks.
The it was time to honor it, too bad they might have to pay up for it...