Black History Fatigue

[Cassandro]

I would like the following facts to be included in any discussion of Black History:

1. Black Africa was a horrible place to live in the 1600-1800s: Constant wars and millions killed or enslaved.

2. Transportation to the Americas was also terrible: Horrible conditions on European slave ships and high mortality rates.

3. Only 10% of these slaves went to what was to become the United States and worked in agriculture. Most of the others were worked to death in mines and other hazardous conditions.

4, American slaves were considered valuable property, and treated as such. Strict laws required their return, at considerable expense to their owners.

5. Slavery was abolished less than 100 years after the United States was established. Discriminatory laws were abolished 100 years after that.

6. 60 years have passed since those laws were abolished. That represents three generations of Black Americans who have lived under the full protection of the US Constitution.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

 

[Augustine_]

I would like the following facts to be included in any discussion of Black History:

1. Black Africa was a horrible place to live in the 1600-1800s: Constant wars and millions killed or enslaved.

2. Transportation to the Americas was also terrible. Horrible conditions on European slave ships and high mortality rates.

3. Only 10% of these slaves went to what was to become the United States and worked in agriculture. Most of the others were worked to death in mines and other hazardous conditions.

4, American slaves were considered valuable property, and treated as such. Strict laws required their return, at considerable expense to their owners.

5. Slavery was abolished less than 100 years after the United States was established. Discriminatory laws were abolished less than 100 years after that.

6. 60 years have passed since those laws were abolished. That represents three generations of Black Americans who have lived under the full protection of the US Constitution.

Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Tell us you hate black people without telling us you hate black people

 

[braalian]

1. Black Africa was a horrible place to live in the 1600-1800s: Constant wars and millions killed or enslaved.

Life in Europe and Asia wasn’t exactly a bowl of cherries in the 17th to 19th centuries, either

2. Transportation to the Americas was also terrible. Horrible conditions on European slave ships and high mortality rates.

Yep.

3. Only 10% of these slaves went to what was to become the United States and worked in agriculture. Most of the others were worked to death in mines and other hazardous conditions.

Ok, well, we live in the USA so, logically, our history books focus on the slave trade as it pertains to the history of our country. In Brazil and the Caribbean I’m sure there is more focus on their slave populations as opposed to cotton plantations in Mississippi

5. Slavery was abolished less than 100 years after the United States was established. Discriminatory laws were abolished less than 100 years after that.

None of this is something to be particularly proud of. Pretty sure it actually contradicts whatever point your fumbling around trying to make here.

6. 60 years have passed since those laws were abolished. That represents three generations of Black Americans who have lived under the full protection of the US Constitution.

Another way that could be phrased is that that there are many, many black people alive today who were alive when black peoples had, by law, fewer civil rights than whites in some states. Again, not sure this supports whatever racist point you’re trying to make…..

 

[Woodznutz]

Too many blacks, and white liberals, are looking back. The future is up ahead. Jes' sayin'.

 

[braalian]

Too many blacks, and white liberals, are looking back. The future is up ahead. Jes' sayin'.

Yeah, I guess we should stop teaching history. Kids don’t need that, right?

 

[Woodznutz]

Yeah, I guess we should stop teaching history. Kids don’t need that, right?

Teach it yes, live in it, no. It's just another excuse for failure. Blacks are behind enough without further dwelling on the past.

Black history should also involve the ethnology of blacks, apart from interactions with other races.