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re: Think you're having a bad day at work?
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:04 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:04 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
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Stone Mountain the holy grail for the SJWs?
Followed by Jackson Square as a close second place. Jackson Square is in just about every single advertisement for the city of New Orleans.
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Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:09 am to CunningLinguist
I guess I do.... don't really keep up with the news. What I mean is that I have not seen any riots or protests of the sort. Nothing that has made national headlines or made my commute a bitch.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:11 am to MaHittaMaHitta
There have also been protests in Dallas. I guess credit to Mitch Landrieu...he is the trendsetter for nation on this thing. All these statues are going to come down one way or another. Too bad this is what New Orleans leads the way for instead of useful things like jobs or education
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 9:12 am
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:12 am to CunningLinguist
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Do you live in a hole? The Dallas mayor just formed a committee to basically take down those statues.
I also heard a group of mostly black dudes came out and said removing them is bad.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:15 am to shel311
quote:A very small percentage of feed blacks actually owned slaves. Those that did own slaves worked the fields with the slaves. A few, and I do mean few, owned slaves for pure profit.
Yes, now do you realize that freed blacks also owned black slaves to do actual slave work in much the same way white slave owners did?
I'm not saying I agree with the OP, i'm on Slackster's side stating that this point is not really relevant unless there is a statue out there of a black slave owner that they aren't trying to have come down. But what you said is something different and seemingly deflecting from the fact that there were black people who purchased and owned slaves, and not for just the noble reasons you mentioned.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:17 am to NorthGwinnettTiger
I wonder if this guy hates white people or black people more right now.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:22 am to PrivatePublic
I keep waiting for black twitter to do their thing with this pic.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:36 am to MontyFranklyn
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A very small percentage of feed blacks actually owned slaves.
In the 1830's roughly 14% of free blacks owned slaves nationwide. In Southern areas the number was much higher with La, Ms, and SC ranging from 32-41%.
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Those that did own slaves worked the fields with the slaves.
A large portion of the black slave owners would only have one or two slaves. Often times a wife, child, or sibling that they used the institution of slavery as a cover to allow them to purchase their freedom. That said, the slave owners who owned multiple slaves and sought monetary and societal equality in the eyes of the white man were as demeaning as the white slave owners.
While slavery in the US was absolutely institutional racism there were quite a few free blacks who were involved. Most black slave owners used it as a guise to save family, yes, but not all. Yes it is possible for a black man to demean another black man because of his race due to social standing and be racist.
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:37 am to MontyFranklyn
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You do realize that "freed blacks" owned their own family members and purchased other blacks to keep families together and protect them, right?
That is only partly correct. Yes, some did do that.
However, there were instances, in which free blacks had a real economic interest in the institution of slavery and held slaves in order to improve their economic status.
Simply look at Nat Butler from Baltimore (I believe?).
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an essay in the North American Review by Calvin Wilson in 1905, presents some hair-raising challenges to the idea that black people who owned their own family members always treated them well: A free black in Trimble County, Kentucky, " … sold his own son and daughter South, one for $1,000, the other for $1,200." … A Maryland father sold his slave children in order to purchase his wife. A Columbus, Georgia, black woman — Dilsey Pope — owned her husband. "He offended her in some way and she sold him … " Fanny Canady of Louisville, Kentucky, owned her husband Jim — a drunken cobbler — whom she threatened to "sell down the river." At New Bern, North Carolina, a free black wife and son purchased their slave husband-father. When the newly bought father criticized his son, the son sold him to a slave trader. The son boasted afterward that "the old man had gone to the corn fields about New Orleans where they might learn him some manners."
This post was edited on 8/16/17 at 9:42 am
Posted on 8/16/17 at 9:47 am to slackster
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ETA - They're targeting memorials to slave owners.
Burn down the Monticello. Remove every George Washington monument. Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Andrew Jackson, John Tyler, Polk, Ulysses S. Grant better come down too....basically erase American history up to what...Reconstruction?
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