Our forgotten slavery horror

[Sallow]

It's 2016.

Maybe we could start acting like it's 2016. American Blacks are just as capable as anyone else, let's treat them that way for a change.
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If they were just as capable as anyone else they would be doing what "anyone else" would be doing.
They are not because they can't.If the country started treating negroes just like any other race the UN would be calling for world wide sanctions. Face facts. The negro race is essentially the world's 'Special Needs' race and it must be treated 'differently' than any other race.

No. American Blacks are as capable as anyone else, although they are hamstrung from an early age in our country due to the conditioning to which they are subjected from birth by those who claim to "care".

Treat them that way and they will respond accordingly, just like anyone else.
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When you have a race that has generally IQs in the low eighties living on the same planet as other races who generally speaking have IQs above a hundred plus living in one of the most competitive social constructs the world has ever seen some things become blatantly obvious.
To utter this "racial hate" is in fact racial reality.
A hundred years from now does anyone in their right mind believe the negro race would have 'risen up' intellectually and begin to actually compete with the other races?
Ya fucking right.
Will other races still be pretending the negro race is "just as capable as other races"? No one believes that.

Eyeah.

And there it is.

No coaxing needed.

 

[dannyboys]

It's 2016.

Maybe we could start acting like it's 2016. American Blacks are just as capable as anyone else, let's treat them that way for a change.
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If they were just as capable as anyone else they would be doing what "anyone else" would be doing.
They are not because they can't.
If the country started treating negroes just like any other race the UN would be calling for world wide sanctions.
Face facts. The negro race is essentially the world's 'Special Needs' race and it must be treated 'differently' than any other race.

Facts.

Well, please fill me in on which country/state/nation in Africa hasn't been under European domination and colonialism at one point or another.

I can do that pal.
The negro race was ticking along for thousands of years before the 'White man'
showed up. When the 'White man showed up the negro race was basically living in stone age conditions. The negro race never invented anything. No written language. No fucking WHEEL! No fucking nothing.
I grant you the Portuguese were more than happy to by negro slaves from OTHER NEGROES!
The world was a different place then.
BTW you can still buy a negro slave in a few African countries today from OTHER negroes. I think this month there's a two for one sale.
"The white man did not introduce slavery to Africa . . . . And by the fifteenth century, men with dark skin had become quite comfortable with the concept of man as property . . . . Long before the arrival of Europeans on West Africa’s coast, the two continents shared a common acceptance of slavery as an unavoidable and necessary—perhaps even desirable—fact of existence. The commerce between the two continents, as tragic as it would become, developed upon familiar territory. Slavery was not a twisted European manipulation, although Europe capitalized on a mutual understanding and greedily expanded the slave trade into what would become a horrific enterprise . . . . It was a thunder that had no sound. Tribe stalked tribe, and eventually more than 20 million Africans would be kidnapped in their own homeland. 10 - See more at: It's Time to Face the Whole Truth About the Atlantic Slave Trade"
Perhaps you ought to educate yourself more on the subject.

 

[martybegan]

You guys may be on to something.

If folks, who weren't alive, aren't responsible for bad stuff, historically, why should they be bothered by it?

And in the same vein, if folks BENEFITTED by things done in the past, that they had nothing to do with, then really? There should be no benefit.

It's high time to do away with inheritance.

Man, you guys are good!

Nice attempt to correlate people passing down assets to their own kin to the concept that some people are owed something due to past sins.

Wait what?

You want profit passed down but want nothing to do with liability?

Gotta love that.

what you are whining about is fake liability.

But nice try on being a sponge, again. your worthless hack.

Well no.

Slavery and Colonialism had some very real world consequences that still permeates our society today.

by that yardstick I should be suing the British government for restoring Castle Began back to it's glory from it's current status as 3 rocks in a field.

 

[LogikAndReazon]

No one wallows in victimhood like this mindless douche.......

 

[Uncensored2008]

Our forgotten slavery horror: The shameful, untold history of America and the Cuban slave trade
As Cuba opens, it's time to recognize our proxy role in Cuba's slave trade, and the Monroe Doctrine's real purpose

Of the 12.5 million enslaved Africans who were brought to the Americas from 1501 to 1867, approximately 4 percent arrived in North America. Another 7 percent were taken to Cuba to work in what is now recognized as an “agro-industrial graveyard” of sugar and coffee production. Historians use this term for good reason: the life expectancy of enslaved Africans from the time of their arrival in Cuba was often calculated in single digits. These catastrophic mortality rates meant that Cuban slavery depended on the slave trade. Although the U.S. and England banned the slave trade in 1808, fully 85 percent (759,669) of the slaves to be transported to Cuba were brought after the U.S. ban. By this time, Americans had decided that Cuban slavery made good economic sense and were actively intensifying their participation in the regime.

After the American Revolution, the young United States was deeply in debt and on the verge of a rapid expansion of the cotton frontier. But the U.S. merchants who ran the nation’s banks and insurance companies could only provide agricultural loans with a reliable source of specie (gold and silver), and sugar and coffee to back their notes and offset trade deficits with the financial centers of Europe. If coffee, sugar and specie unlocked the doors of European and Asian markets for U.S. investors, slave ships were their key. By the early 1800s, Cuban slavery was at the center of this exchange, and American statesmen, including every U.S. president from Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, worked doggedly to protect it.


Our forgotten slavery horror: The shameful, untold history of America and the Cuban slave trade - Salon.com

While I realize you are all "hate America" all the time, you DO grasp that Cuba was a Spanish colony, and not held by America, right Shallow?

 

[Uncensored2008]

It was over a century and half ago....good grief, let it go

The Spaniards were bastards - but the sleazy fucks over at Salon.communist trying to lay that on America is lying that goes just a bit beyond the pale...

Leftists are sociopaths - not a hint of integrity in any of them.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

It was over a century and half ago....good grief, let it go

The Spaniards were bastards - but the sleazy fucks over at Salon.communist trying to lay that on America is lying that goes just a bit beyond the pale...

Leftists are sociopaths - not a hint of integrity in any of them.

Salon is about as left loon as one can get

 

[Stephanie]

the biggest race hustler on this board is so stale and boring. yawn. has to live in the PAST in order to dump on everyone else for their problems. what a sad bunch of human beings

 

[Uncensored2008]

Hell for that matter sue African blacks, they traded as many slaves as anyone

Actually, they traded virtually ALL of the black slaves. The Zulu kingdom hunted down and sold millions of enemy tribes-people. Europeans were not going into the interior and capturing slaves, they were buying them at ports and outposts from Africans who were selling their defeated foes.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Not a stretch at all.

Many of today's wealthiest folks had ancestors who had a very "casual" relationship with the law.

But still?

They got the loot.

Yes, but enough about Hillary Clinton.

Let's get back to the lie that Cuban slaves are the fault of Americans....

Salon.Communist - we fucking hate America!

 

[Obiwan]

Our forgotten slavery horror: The shameful, untold history of America and the Cuban slave trade
As Cuba opens, it's time to recognize our proxy role in Cuba's slave trade, and the Monroe Doctrine's real purpose

Of the 12.5 million enslaved Africans who were brought to the Americas from 1501 to 1867, approximately 4 percent arrived in North America. Another 7 percent were taken to Cuba to work in what is now recognized as an “agro-industrial graveyard” of sugar and coffee production. Historians use this term for good reason: the life expectancy of enslaved Africans from the time of their arrival in Cuba was often calculated in single digits. These catastrophic mortality rates meant that Cuban slavery depended on the slave trade. Although the U.S. and England banned the slave trade in 1808, fully 85 percent (759,669) of the slaves to be transported to Cuba were brought after the U.S. ban. By this time, Americans had decided that Cuban slavery made good economic sense and were actively intensifying their participation in the regime.

After the American Revolution, the young United States was deeply in debt and on the verge of a rapid expansion of the cotton frontier. But the U.S. merchants who ran the nation’s banks and insurance companies could only provide agricultural loans with a reliable source of specie (gold and silver), and sugar and coffee to back their notes and offset trade deficits with the financial centers of Europe. If coffee, sugar and specie unlocked the doors of European and Asian markets for U.S. investors, slave ships were their key. By the early 1800s, Cuban slavery was at the center of this exchange, and American statesmen, including every U.S. president from Thomas Jefferson to John Quincy Adams, worked doggedly to protect it.


Our forgotten slavery horror: The shameful, untold history of America and the Cuban slave trade - Salon.com

While I realize you are all "hate America" all the time, you DO grasp that Cuba was a Spanish colony, and not held by America, right Shallow?

B-B-But Cuba is Obozo's FRIEND!!!!

 

[hjmick]

I guess you just don't have enough class to credit other people's writing using quotation marks.
No surprise there.
On any other forum you would have been permanently banned for your behaviour. But you know this of course.

If Sallow had put all of that within quote tags, it would ha e shrunk to not much more than the title paragraph.
When that happens lazy people that can't get passed the structure in order to be able to debate the actual content.

This is one reason I hate Columbus day. He was the first to enslave that entire region. Then it got turned into the waystation the article talks about.

I'll admit that I was ready to come in and say "quit picking the scab".
But I like the Cuban angle.

Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) - The Oatmeal