- Mar 11, 2015
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What you said is racist, because you said >> "Slavery was made legal in the UNITED STATES by whites." SInce you didn't stipulate WHICH whites, and that it was a very small number (as I explained in Post # 81), that leaves your sentence as saying that ALL whites made slavery legal. Demonizing a whole race like that, for the actions of a small group, is about as racist as you can get.There is nothing racist in what I said.
In 1863, the President of the United States signed the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves but really freeing them only on stats held by the confederacy. On January 31, 1865, the 13th Amendment was proposed which ended slavery officially in the United States, yet it took until March 16, 1995 for the last state to ratify this amendment. On June 13, 1866, the 14th Amendment was proposed whereby American citizenship was supposed to be granted to every citizen regardless of race or former condition of servitude. Yet it took until March 18, 1976, for the last state to ratify this amendment. On February 26, 1869, the first right to vote was granted to black men only but the last state to ratify this took until 1997. I present these 3 amendments because of what they were supposed to end. That would be the end of white racism by practice , law and policy. But that did not happen. Instead whites created a new way to practice racism and it started with the decisions made in cases during the late 1800ās.
A 1883 Supreme Court opinion states that āwhen a man has emerged from slavery ā¦ there must be some stage in the progress of his elevation when he takes the rank of a mere citizen and ceases to be the special favorite of the laws.ā That was two decades after emancipation. I think the supreme court was a little ahead of itself. Even still that shows us a purposeful blindness to reality by whites which carries over into today. To ignore the special favorite of the law status whites had enjoyed to that point is really an example of mental madness.
When it is said we talk about a history of racist laws and policy many do not understand the full extent of what is meant. According to the 13th Amendment, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, nor any place subject to their jurisdiction."I think people really need to understand the impact of the underlined words. Blacks were arrested, tried, found guilty and sent to prison for crimes such as vagrancy, cussing in front of whites, jaywalking and other minor or non offenses for whites. Because of this, they could be returned to slavery and were. There has been no amendment to change this part of the 13th Amendment meaning that in reality slavery could still exist in America today. After slavery ended:
Employment was required of all freedmen; violators faced vagrancy charges
ā¢Freedmen could not assemble without the presence of a white person
ā¢Freedmen were assumed to be agricultural workers and their duties and hours were tightly regulated
ā¢Freedmen were not to be taught to read or write
ā¢Public facilities were segregated
ā¢Violators of these laws were subject to being whipped or branded.
And sent back into slavery. Just think about it, a black person could be convicted of not being employed and sent back into slavery along with many other things. Far too many people want to argue about things said without an understanding of the depth and length of things that have and continue to occur.
The decisions made by the supreme court in these cases began what we call today states rights. The decision was that the federal government could not interfere in how the states did things. If an act of racism happened in a state that was a state concern, not a federal one. So while slavery was illegal by written law, while rights were not to be denied by race, whites found a way around those amendments to continue practicing racism. In 1896 the whites of this nation insured that racial segregation would be the law. This was done by Plessy V. Ferguson. So while slavery was no longer legal by constitutional amendment meaning blacks or anyone of color were not supposed be denied rights, because of Plessy v Ferguson they could be separated and reduced to second class citizenship. So laws were written, but whites found another way to practice the same racism.
So we fast forward to the1960s. We got the Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights act. Affirmative Action was an executive order. But the thing about Affirmative Action was it only applied to government jobs and government construction contracts. Despite these things being passed in the mid 1960ās it took until the late 1980ās for most of the nation to comply. These laws were not immediately followed. Yet today there are whites who still find ways to circumvent the law.
Racism today is practiced in a new way and it's not overt in practice but covert in policy. This racism is called entitlement reform. Immigration. Welfare reform. Voter fraud. And many other things that are actually policies designed to take away things from non whites. This is how racism is played today. Iām colorblind and if you talk about racism, you are the racist. This is part of the history of race in America. Itās not the nice part so no one wants to hear it. For any progress made, the racists adapt and create a new way to limit that progress. Or end it. Ask those who are taking Affirmative Action to court. The Fisher case was a case heard an unprecedented 2 times by the supreme court which is something a non white case never would get. It was rejected the first time but white rights organizers again funded the attempt and it got heard for a second time. So a person can talk about how laws are written and pretend that words on a piece of paper are being followed, but thatās not the case and it never has been.
We always have to be told about what racism is by whites. And of course there are whites who tell us that racism doesn't exist because they don't see the KKK outfits, burning crosses or the whites only signs. Or how Oprah exists so that means all blacks are economically on equal footing as whites. Therefore racism is over according to them. But it's not. And what we have seen as non whites is how racism changes in practice each and every time laws are passed to try stopping it.
You are ignorant to these matters son, and whites have not been harmed by AA. Whites have benefitted the most and incomes of white households have increased because of the policy. You run your mouth, but you know nothing.
As for Affirmaive Action, its discrimination against whites, is, the largest racist discrimination in America, against, by far, the largest number of people (whites), and continues (in 42 states) after 50+ years. Your support of AA is just more evidence of your blatant RACISM and your criminality, since AA is illegal (violation of the 1964 Civil Rights Act)
This post is about as stupid as it gets.