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Slavery In today's Society

posted October 3, 2009 - 3:23pm
Slavery In today's Society

I will talk about slavery today. Now, I am not racist. If you think you will be offended, leave now. Thank you, I can now go forth.

Okay, so we all know that "African Americans" (form now on i will say blacks) were enslaved because of their skin color hundreds of years ago. This is the basis of my post today, hundreds of years ago. I will get back to that, moving along. So they were enslaved to do jobs for the richer white population, like be maids, butlers, farm workers etc. They were bought and sold by traders and lots of money was made during the slave trade.

But the point of my post today is quite simple - remember how I said, hundreds of years ago? Sure you do. Well, it was hundreds of years ago, why should we bitch about it now? WE ALL know & accept the fact that slavery was wrong, and that's why the majority of countries have outlawed it. But come on people, the last legal slave in America was when? Around the civil war I believe? The civil war ended in 1860's or so, and that's about 150 years ago. No one alive today could have ever had a slave (legally, anyway).

So okay, our (by our, I mean whites) ancestors enslaved people 150 years ago. Well, we can't do anything about that today can we? No. Now here comes the biggest point of my post. Grow up! You heard me. Slavery was 150 years ago, forget about it.

Let me give a comparison. An ancestor of yours killed someone 150 years ago, and that ancestor is long dead. The police come and harass/bother/even perhaps charge you with this crime. Now, anyone with an IQ of 71 can see the similarity. Point being, you can't charge other members of the family because of something that someone did 150 years ago, for all intents and purposes, you might not even know them. NO ONE is responsible for another's action.

Something else I'd like to say before finishing off. Black history month? Black parade? Black this black that. Bullshit. Does the black population deserve a history month? Sure, but how about white history month?  Or Hispanic, or Asian? I explained why slavery shouldn't be a factor, so I don't need to explain again. As well, any kind of "donations" or "charities" are in the same league. Scams, that's it. Trying to abuse the fact that your ancestors were enslave so you turn a quick buck? Give me a break.

Thank you for reading & feel free to post and comment, but anything like "OMG!@!@ YOU RACIST FUCK!" Will be mocked by terms of an edit. I am not a racist, I just have what they call "common sense".



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The intention of my post was to target people that complain about slavery, rather than oppression (Which I'm not dening).  I'm pretty sure you understand the difference.  This post actually started because I heard someone complaing about how thier ancestors were enslaved 150 years ago.

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You might not be racist

But your post is incredibly ignorant. Slavery may have unofficially ended 50 years ago, but black people remained in a form of legalized slavery up until the mid 1900s. Sharecropping was no better than slavery for most black people, and the Jim Crow laws/lynchings continued until the 1960s.

I encourage you to read this article on the continuation of black oppression after the Civil War: http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/6/5/151951/2590

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Thanks for your comments.  My problem is with the duration of the event [Black history month], not the event itself - however you made a decent point about the other holidays.

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This post really did not suprise me to awfully bad, I too have common sense.  I definately agree that slavery happened so many years ago that no one today, not matter what color they are is able to change what happened 150 years ago.  We need to focus on being kind to one another in the here and now.  I don't care what race, culture, sex, age, you are I will befriend you if you are nice to me. 

I personally think that it is nice that we celebrate Black History Month.  It is a very nice event for the black population to celebrate their history.  There is nothing wrong with celebrating one's history.  Black History Month is to the African-American race like Cinco De Mayo is to the Hispanics, or Christmas is to the Christians, St.Patrick's Day to the Irish.  You get the point.  Sure, these events are not celebrated a whole month, however some holidays/events last longer than others.  The type and length of a holiday/history event was planned so many years ago that we also have no control today over that.

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