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...a 25 year old, White male (me), who takes responsibility for his race perpetrating slavery on the black race.
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I respectfully disagree. The slaves were captured by Dutch slave traders and purchased by English colonists and later English-decended Americans. A lot of the white people in this country are progeny of the immigration boom that happened years after slavery was abolished. My family didn't get to America (from Germany) until the early 1880's and none of us ever owned anybody. White is not a race, but a collection of many different races.
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Admit the White race in America built the USA on the backs of beaten black men, and raped black women. Our fledgling country built its first agricultural economy with free, slave, labor.
Owning it is the first step to righting it.
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That's a little harsh considering that slavery was mainly a feature of the agricultural South. It is also my opinion that industrial progress did a hell of a lot more to "build this country" than cotton and tobacco farmers.
And not to nitpick, but most slaves were treated decently by their owners. Not as equals, true, and that's why slavery sucks; but not all were beaten and/or raped or otherwise treated the way Hollywood (Roots) would have you believe. Just as resposible farmers today treat their livestock well (it's where their living comes from), I tend to believe that most slave owners weren't cruel, sadistic, perverts.
Other than that, I thought your views were expressed clearly, your opinions well thought out and your article interesting. I'd be tempted to agree with it, however, I don't think I'm qualified. I don't know much about Hip-Hop and I can count on one hand the number of black people I've known.