An Apology to African Americans

[MizMolly]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

 

[Correll]

AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE

I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.

I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.

I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.

In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.

An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.

As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.

It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.

Delores Paulk

FUCK THAT SHIT.

 

[LOIE]

AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE

I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.

I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.

I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.

In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.

An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.

As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.

It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.

Delores Paulk

So, that almost sounded sincere. Do you apologize for the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, or the sinking of the Lusitania, as well? Please, you apology is as meaningless it is sycophantic pandering. I am sure you are sincere. What difference does it make?

Years ago "something told me" to go visit an elderly member of my church. I ignored that little voice in my head, did not go, and that night he passed away.

Now when I get that little voice in my head, like I did when I wrote this letter, I listen and act. As far as what good it does - that's not up to me. It's like tossing a rock into the water and waiting for the ripples. You never know. I gave a copy of this letter to a young man on the subway and he said, "Thanks a lot for that." Another lady I gave it to hugged me and said "That was very moving. Thank you."

I believe I am God's instrument in the world. He uses me however He wills.

Well you moved me. I suddenly feel the need to apologize to someone for sharing the world will a nincompoop like yourself.

It is not enough to apologize. You must sell your children to the nearest black man. You must undress and walk through the black neighborhoods in the nude. You have to sacrifice or what good is an apology.

Nincompoop, now there's a word I haven't heard for a while. It's the only word of your response that I actually understood. The rest makes no sense to me.

 

[Correll]

As a moderate white guy that abhors racists, has hired many black people and minorities, and has lectured at an HBU, let me say that I do not apologize for the racist lowlifes in Charlottesville. I, and the rest of civil, non-slime white Americans, have nothing to do with these scum.

Apologizing for things I and we haven't done is pointless and implies guilt by association. Instead, rather than empty apologies, the best thing for civil, non-slime white Americans to do is to hold a light up to these losers and denounce them for who they are.

Bolding added.


And that's the fucking point.


Filthy race baiting liberal scum. (the op, to be clear)

 

[LOIE]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

 

[Correll]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

Money is not the problem for black students. Lack of parental involvement is.


THis has been know for generations, but it is taboo to discuss it.

 

[LOIE]

As a moderate white guy that abhors racists, has hired many black people and minorities, and has lectured at an HBU, let me say that I do not apologize for the racist lowlifes in Charlottesville. I, and the rest of civil, non-slime white Americans, have nothing to do with these scum.

Apologizing for things I and we haven't done is pointless and implies guilt by association. Instead, rather than empty apologies, the best thing for civil, non-slime white Americans to do is to hold a light up to these losers and denounce them for who they are.

Bolding added.


And that's the fucking point.


Filthy race baiting liberal scum. (the op, to be clear)

I felt and said what was in my heart to say. You can call me whatever name you like. I'm reading a book called White Rage that talks about years and years of policies written with the intent on blocking black advancement. She also writes about how phrases like the one you just used were started by politicians to further divide us from one another. I see no problem with apologizing that such hatred and oppression persist even today.

 

[LOIE]

AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE

I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.

I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.

I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.

In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.

An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.

As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.

It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.

Delores Paulk

FUCK THAT SHIT.

Lovely choice of words!

 

[EvilCat Breath]

[Q
Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil—more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.
UOTE="Delores Paulk, post: 17958700, member: 63326"]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.[/QUOTE]
The most expensive failure in US educational history was when Kansas tried to educate the black students.

America's Most Costly Educational Failure
Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil—more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

 

[Correll]

As a moderate white guy that abhors racists, has hired many black people and minorities, and has lectured at an HBU, let me say that I do not apologize for the racist lowlifes in Charlottesville. I, and the rest of civil, non-slime white Americans, have nothing to do with these scum.

Apologizing for things I and we haven't done is pointless and implies guilt by association. Instead, rather than empty apologies, the best thing for civil, non-slime white Americans to do is to hold a light up to these losers and denounce them for who they are.

Bolding added.


And that's the fucking point.


Filthy race baiting liberal scum. (the op, to be clear)

I felt and said what was in my heart to say. You can call me whatever name you like. I'm reading a book called White Rage that talks about years and years of policies written with the intent on blocking black advancement. She also writes about how phrases like the one you just used were started by politicians to further divide us from one another. I see no problem with apologizing that such hatred and oppression persist even today.

You are telling everyone that will listen to you, that the majority of the largest single ethnic group, ie whites, are racist haters out to get them.


This scare mongers those you target, and

great pisses off those you falsely smear.


YOu are the ones tearing this nation apart.


Also, to be clear, you don't get to apologize for me, not a single fucking bit.

 

[LOIE]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

Money is not the problem for black students. Lack of parental involvement is.


THis has been know for generations, but it is taboo to discuss it.

Known to whom? In inner city schools I've been in and worked in there was always an active PTA. But when there's no money for gym class, no money for art class, no money for class trips, whose fault is that? The funders.

Parents I knew spent inordinate amounts of time doing bake sales so the teachers could get more supplies. So easy to blame victims and not a racist system.

 

[LOIE]

[Q
Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil—more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.
UOTE="Delores Paulk, post: 17958700, member: 63326"]

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

The most expensive failure in US educational history was when Kansas tried to educate the black students.

America's Most Costly Educational Failure
Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation Experiment

Kansas City spent as much as $11,700 per pupil—more money per pupil, on a cost of living adjusted basis, than any other of the 280 largest districts in the country. The money bought higher teachers’ salaries, 15 new schools, and such amenities as an Olympic-sized swimming pool with an underwater viewing room, television and animation studios, a robotics lab, a 25-acre wildlife sanctuary, a zoo, a model United Nations with simultaneous translation capability, and field trips to Mexico and Senegal. The student-teacher ratio was 12 or 13 to 1, the lowest of any major school district in the country.

The results were dismal. Test scores did not rise; the black-white gap did not diminish; and there was less, not greater, integration.

[/QUOTE]
A student asked me once after having to take yet another standardized test in school - If I don't do well on the test, how do they know if it was me who didn't learn or the teacher who didn't teach?

Sometimes low expectations and lack of encouragement produce low achievement, not necessarily the inability of the student to learn. I've seen classrooms where a long time teacher passed out papers for the kids to work on and sat at her desk reading the entire class period. I've seen teachers call on white kids in the class and exclude black kids. I've heard them berate black kids and praise white kids. I believe in the school to prison pipeline.

On experiment hardly proves the case for an entire nation of schools. One can point to private schools started by blacks for blacks and because the kids are correctly taught their history, encouraged and loved, not tolerated, they do extremely well.

 

[MizMolly]

Are you in the KKK? Why are you apologizing? Has your black husband ever apologized for all the crime and welfare sucking blacks do?

The KKK is a tiny minority of whites, and is hated by most whites. Black parasites are the majority of blacks.

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

Money is not the problem for black students. Lack of parental involvement is.


THis has been know for generations, but it is taboo to discuss it.

Known to whom? In inner city schools I've been in and worked in there was always an active PTA. But when there's no money for gym class, no money for art class, no money for class trips, whose fault is that? The funders.

Parents I knew spent inordinate amounts of time doing bake sales so the teachers could get more supplies. So easy to blame victims and not a racist system.

Is it really a racial issue when schools in poor neighborhoods don't receive more funding? What about all the poor white kids who live in poor neighborhoods?

 

[Pop23]

God, you are helpless

Do this take a tribe of 200 who fought a battle, took slaves and sold them. They now have dirty blood lines.

Figure each has three children by the time they're 25. And so on and so on.

In 375 years the math works out to nearly a billion people with dirty bloodlines.

Now that's simplistic. There are obvious population statistics that would come in to play radically reducing that number, but we are also covering less than 10% of the time needed but only 1 tribe out of many.

It would be nearly impossible to argue any African had clean bloodlines when it comes to the slave trade.

There ya go, now go outside and get some sun ......


Son.

What tribe are you talking about there? 30% is what I got. Well below your half mark. Sorry honey.

And what was your point on this? Some racist "look in Africa they ran slaves, stop looking at the USA even though the topic is the USA" BS? Yeah thought so.

You do understand that it was African Blacks that supplied the slaves, right?

Oh, I forgot, you're an idiot.

Great article in HUFF Post - Did we sell each other into slavery:Misconception

God, you are helpless

Do this take a tribe of 200 who fought a battle, took slaves and sold them. They now have dirty blood lines.

Figure each has three children by the time they're 25. And so on and so on.

In 375 years the math works out to nearly a billion people with dirty bloodlines.

Now that's simplistic. There are obvious population statistics that would come in to play radically reducing that number, but we are also covering less than 10% of the time needed but only 1 tribe out of many.

It would be nearly impossible to argue any African had clean bloodlines when it comes to the slave trade.

There ya go, now go outside and get some sun ......


Son.

What tribe are you talking about there? 30% is what I got. Well below your half mark. Sorry honey.

And what was your point on this? Some racist "look in Africa they ran slaves, stop looking at the USA even though the topic is the USA" BS? Yeah thought so.

You do understand that it was African Blacks that supplied the slaves, right?

Oh, I forgot, you're an idiot.

Here's an article by Dwayne Wong that I think is excellent.

There are many misconceptions about African history and nowhere is this more true than the topic of the slave trade. Very often I see comments by people who argue that Africans sold each other into slavery. There is some element of truth to this, but to speak of the slave trade solely as Africans selling each other t is a gross oversimplification of what was a complex historical event. This also seems to be an attempt to shift the burden of the slave trade on the victims of that very trade. In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney mentions how the white author of a book on the slave trade admitted that he was encouraged by other scholars to blame the slave trade solely on the Africans. This narrative helps to lessen European guilt by making Africans seem just as or even more guilty of being involved in the slave trade. This piece is not an attempt to ignore the African role in the slave trade or to absolve those that were involved, but to to provide a more complete picture of the African involvement in slave trade.

In the first place, the Portuguese initiated what eventually became the Trans-Atlantic slave trade mainly through slave raids along the coasts of Africa. The first of these raids came in 1444 and was led by Lançarote de Freitas. The problem with raiding for slaves was that it was extremely dangerous. For instance, the slave trader Nuno Tristão was killed during an ambush. Slave raiding proved to be an extremely dangerous way to obtain slaves, but buying slaves was much safer and took less effort on the part of the Europeans. Therefore, the first phase of the slave trade began not with a trade, but with a series of raids. This point is especially important because although the slave trade was on some levels based on a partnership between European buyers and African traders, the slave trade did not begin as such.

Moreover, the partnership between the traders and buyers was an uneasy one. The European slave traders often betrayed those who supplied them with slaves. A famous case of this was the African slave trader Daaga who was tricked and captured by slave traders. He was taken to Trinidad where he would eventually lead a mutiny. Another example is given by Anne Bailey in her book African Voices in the Atlantic Slave Trade. She mentions the story of Chief Ndorkutsu who had been providing captives to the European traders. Eventually some of the Ndorkutsu’s own relatives were tricked into boarding a slave ship and then taken as slaves to Cuba. In some cases, such as that of Madam Tinubu in Nigeria and Afonso of the Kongo Kingdom, those Africans that initially gave African captives to the Europeans came to resist the slave trade. Tinubu had a change of heart when she realized how inhumanely the slaves were treated. Afonso was almost assassinated by the Portuguese after he demanded an end to the slave trade in his kingdom.

Typically wars in West Africa were relatively short affairs that left a small number of causalities. The introduction of European weapons made these wars more drawn out and destructive affairs. Moreover, the only way Africans could acquire these firearms was through the trade of slaves. A king of Dahomey once requested that Europeans establish a firearms factory in his nation, but this request went ignored. Firearms became necessary for African nations to defend themselves both from African rivals as well as from European intrusion, but the only way to acquire these weapons was through the slave trade. This situation only benefited the competing European powers that were able to play Africans against each other.

Some Africans did play a role in the slave trade and the trade could not have been as large as it was without cooperation from Africans. With that being said, I think many people who have not properly studied the slave trade have a tendency to overstate how involved Africans were in a misguided attempt to shift the blame of the slave trade on Africans.

Ok, so after that, it was solidified that the trading of slaves involved Blacks selling Blacks.

"....... and the trade could not have been as large without the cooperation of Africans."

Where exactly did I mislead in any fact I presented?

 

[BulletProof]

Is it really a racial issue when schools in poor neighborhoods don't receive more funding? What about all the poor white kids who live in poor neighborhoods?

Black schools in America are among the most highly funded schools in the country, often receiving three times the funding per student as white rural schools. Black kids in Washington DC get nearly $30,000 per student per year. That's a lot of money for people who'll never really be productive, but will live in welfare, fill race quotas for companies, and steal anything they can get their hands on.

Racist f**king ignoramuses thinking inner-city schools get less money...

 

[BulletProof]

Money is not the problem for black students. Lack of parental involvement is.


THis has been know for generations, but it is taboo to discuss it.

What do you mean lack of parental involvement? Black kids are more likely than white kids to have a full-time mom at home.

You know what we've really known for generations, but is too taboo to discuss...

 

[bgrouse]

AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE

I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.

I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.

I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.

In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.

An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.

It's so bad that they're drowning to get out of their negro-run countries to live in a "racist" white nation.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

AN APOLOGY TO AFRICAN AMERICANS – LONG OVERDUE

I couldn’t focus at work today. My mind kept taking me back to Charlottesville.

I kept seeing the hate in the eyes of the KKK, White Supremacists and Neo-Nazi protesters.

I kept hearing the voices of those who vowed to “take their country back” and rid it of all diversity and unity.

In my heart, I can find no other response but to apologize – for their hatred, for their violence, for their total ignorance of who you really are.

I am a white woman who has been married to a black man for 37 years.

I KNOW you are wonderful. I KNOW you are spiritual. I KNOW you are warm, loving and forgiving. I KNOW you deserve better. I KNOW you deserve an apology.

An apology from our nation, from our leaders and from every white person who has never spoken up against racism and the way you have been treated in this United States of America.

As one individual, I do apologize. Right here. Right now.

It may not help a lot. It may not change the course of history. It may not even make a crack in the wall that divides us. But still – I APOLOGIZE.

Delores Paulk

Go away

 

[LOIE]

Easy to see you have entrenched stereotypes about blacks. I totally disagree that the majority of blacks are parasites. I am certainly not in the KKK, and my husband understands the underlying causes of crime and the need for welfare better than most, having lived his entire life in the inner city and seen the changes that have taken place over the years. Changes caused by disinvestment, removal of jobs, educational and recreational facilities and housing discrimination. Things done TO black folks, not BY them.

My apology comes from a place in my heart that cries over the fact that even in 2017 there is so much hatred in America. I read that one young black man said, "Why did they bring us here and then hate us?"

Good question, I think.

I don't hate anyone due to their skin color. I think a lot of problems stem from too many blacks bringing up the history of slavery, Jim Crow, etc. Discussing it is one thing, but to become angry and attack whites on these forums because of it is uncalled for. Yes, racism is still alive, probably always will be. It is a shame. Whites are not the only ones who are racist, contrary to what many blacks think. Time has long passed since anyone should be blaming white people for the horrible injustice that were directed at black people. You can't change the idiots today who still feel blacks are inferior due to their skin color. You can't change the idiots who feel whites are all bad, racist, privileged, etc.

Perhaps some injustices are in the past. I have a friend who is a data scientist, who just shared results of his extensive research on funding for public education in PA. Philadelphia schools receive $2,000 less per student than the Funding Formula states they are entitled to. Schools in predominantly white suburbs and cities get $2-3,000 more than the Funding Formula says they are supposed to get. Laws written in the books to prevent current day discrimination, are often not adhered to. There is no oversight or accountability in many instances like this one.

Because there are no "whites only" signs any more, does not mean that unseen, and often unchallenged, institutional racism is over.

Money is not the problem for black students. Lack of parental involvement is.


THis has been know for generations, but it is taboo to discuss it.

Known to whom? In inner city schools I've been in and worked in there was always an active PTA. But when there's no money for gym class, no money for art class, no money for class trips, whose fault is that? The funders.

Parents I knew spent inordinate amounts of time doing bake sales so the teachers could get more supplies. So easy to blame victims and not a racist system.

Is it really a racial issue when schools in poor neighborhoods don't receive more funding? What about all the poor white kids who live in poor neighborhoods?

The issue is that the state legislators voted on a fair funding formula and they themselves are not adhering to it.

 

[LOIE]

Is it really a racial issue when schools in poor neighborhoods don't receive more funding? What about all the poor white kids who live in poor neighborhoods?

Black schools in America are among the most highly funded schools in the country, often receiving three times the funding per student as white rural schools. Black kids in Washington DC get nearly $30,000 per student per year. That's a lot of money for people who'll never really be productive, but will live in welfare, fill race quotas for companies, and steal anything they can get their hands on.

Racist f**king ignoramuses thinking inner-city schools get less money...

That thought process is the problem. It is assumed that these kids can not learn and the system pretty much guarantees that they will not be given the chance others are given.

This man you call ignoramus is a data scientist. Unlike some other folks, scientists don't get to make stuff up.

And unlike some other folks, some of us know how unfair it is to stereotype an entire group of people.