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re: Slavery reparations sought in first Black Lives Matter agenda
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:52 am to Pax Regis
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:52 am to Pax Regis
No one said Evey white person had salves. The most powerful ones did. The people who had corporations that boosted this country's economy in trade that uses slave labor. That built the major cities of america. No most white people did not have slaves but the economy that boosted this country to what it is today was due to slavery that many people still reap the benefits today.
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Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:52 am to 504ByrdGang
Your ignorance is showing all up in this thread my man. Good for you!
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:55 am to meauxjeaux2
Guessing no one seen me saying reparations are not possible. I'm more frustrated that this thread continued demeaned black people because a comment of few.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:55 am to 504ByrdGang
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. No most white people did not have slaves but the economy that boosted this country to what it is today was due to slavery that many people still reap the benefits today.
Including but not limited to people who get a cell phone from the government because that is considered a basic need in this country. Being poor in America, while often romanticized domestically, is a shite ton better than being poor in the majority of the world.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:55 am to 504ByrdGang
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504ByrdGang
Also, Irish slaves in the New World is far from the only instance of white's being enslaved....
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Much attention and condemnation has been directed towards the tragedy of the African slave trade, which took place between the 16 th and the 19 th centuries. However, another equally despicable trade in humans was taking place around the same time in the Mediterranean. It is estimated that up to 1.25 million Europeans were enslaved by the so-called Barbary corsairs, and their lives were just as pitiful as their African counterparts. They have come to be known as the white slaves of Barbary.
Slavery is one of the oldest trades known to man. We can first find records of the slave trade dating back to The Code of Hammurabi in Babylon in the 18th century BCE. People from virtually every major culture, civilization, and religious background have made slaves of their own and enslaved other peoples. However, comparatively little attention has been given to the prolific slave trade that was carried out by pirates, or corsairs, along the Barbary coast (as it was called by Europeans at the time), in what is now Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, beginning around 1600 AD.
Anyone travelling in the Mediterranean at the time faced the real prospect of being captured by the Corsairs and taken to Barbary Coast cities and being sold as slaves.
However, not content with attacking ships and sailors, the corsairs also sometimes raided coastal settlements in Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Ireland, and even as far away as the Netherlands and Iceland. They landed on unguarded beaches, and crept up on villages in the dark to capture their victims. Almost all the inhabitants of the village of Baltimore, in Ireland, were taken in this way in 1631. As a result of this threat, numerous coastal towns in the Mediterranean were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants until the 19 th century.
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Bottom line, the world of the past was a brutal place where the strong used the weak for their own purposes. The English enslaved the Irish and Africans, North Africans enslaved white Europeans, Central Africans enslaves other central Africans. Slavery was widespread around the world at that time.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:55 am to trom83
It ain't gonna happen.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:56 am to 504ByrdGang
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That built the major cities of america.
I don't think there were enough slaves that were skilled craftsmen to make this claim. I've never even heard this before so kudos on new found territory. Slaves were almost entirely unskilled agricultural labor.
It's pathetic how in 2016 that so many people want to blame white people for every ill in the world and also shift all historical accomplishments to minorities.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:56 am to 504ByrdGang
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I'm sure they enjoyed being put in chains and forced to work while their women were being rapped and beaten if they disobeyed. Other people did it so of course its cool for america. In other countries its ok to stone women if they get raped so middle eastern women must love that too.
What are you even talking about? Rappers today put chains on and force their women to work while they beat them.
And you are truly ignorant if you think that slavery in America was just the constant beating of slaves. Chattel slavery in America was a damn picnic compared to slavery in the Caribbean and South America.
You do realize that, if you are objective about it, slavery in the Americas was probably the best thing for the spreading of African genes, right?
They weren't developing their own boats, or writing systems, or much of anything.
After being brought here they exponentially increased their genetic footprint and advancements.
We have a black president. We have more black millionaires than any other country.
Do you really think the African people would be better off had they remained as slaves to other Africans in Africa?
Slavery wasn't a pretty institution but it was that way from the dawn of time and if you are honest, American slavery was fairly tame by comparison.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:57 am to trom83
I think it's just a tactic to motivate even more people to get behind them. They know that money motivates even more people than the fearmongering and anger they spread.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:57 am to 504ByrdGang
quote:wrong again. Look one page back. Slackster did.
Guessing no one seen me saying reparations are not possible.
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I'm more frustrated that this thread continued demeaned black people because a comment of few.
I am trying to understand this.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:58 am to 504ByrdGang
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I'm more frustrated that this thread continued demeaned black people because a comment of few.
Maybe if you could form a proper sentence more people would take you seriously.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 8:59 am to 504ByrdGang
That has to be dumbest collection of statements I have seen in while.
So you are telling me that the ONLY people benefiting from our economy are whites.
holy fricking shite
So you are telling me that the ONLY people benefiting from our economy are whites.
holy fricking shitePosted on 8/2/16 at 9:00 am to fr33manator
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Do you really think the African people would be better off had they remained as slaves to other Africans in Africa?
I've been to Africa. Half of the continent is so poor they don't have basic things we take for granted like garbage collection and indoor plumbing. The other half is chasing each other around with machetes and cutting off body parts.
If anything the blacks in America should be thanking the people who put their ancestors on a boat and shipped them here.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:00 am to TbirdSpur2010
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What I want to know is how mixed heritage affects these reparations. We going one drop rule here?
That's a great question. What happens if someone finds out they've got both slave and slaveholders for ancestors? Will they take some money from their right pocket and put it in their left?
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:03 am to terd ferguson
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I've been to Africa. Half of the continent is so poor they don't have basic things we take for granted like garbage collection and indoor plumbing. The other half is chasing each other around with machetes and cutting off body parts.
If anything the blacks in America should be thanking the people who put their ancestors on a boat and shipped them here.
Do you know why Africa is in that current state?
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:04 am to trom83
LOL...good luck with that
They should take their scholarships and affirmative action and be happy with that.
They should take their scholarships and affirmative action and be happy with that.
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:04 am to 504ByrdGang
Clearly! White people, duh. 
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:04 am to 504ByrdGang
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Do you know why Africa is in that current state?
OMG LEMME GUESS!!!
WHITE PEOPLE????
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:05 am to 504ByrdGang
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Do you know why Africa is in that current state?
Because it's full of Africans?
Posted on 8/2/16 at 9:05 am to trom83
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