re: It's going down in Baltimore

whoever wrote that blames ancient history, slavery, and white people for black people calling other blacks thugs. I'm glad it at least made sense in their own head when they typed that out. It's like the writer got drunk, watched Braveheart for the first time, and took off to the internet.

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I am DONE with Black People calling other members of their community THUGS! We, as a people, were raped of our titles as Kings and Queens, Leaders and Elders, raped of our language and land, pulled into a culture that diminished us, gave us a language filled with terms that labelled as unequals and shackled us to bondage! We were taught, "Be Nice! Listen to Master! You May Get to live in The Big House" We were forced to watch our fathers and sons hang from trees and our mothers and daughters bare the children produced in rape (masked as a love for the exotic). We were treated as lab animals for medical experiments... And we were given "freedom" in a foreign land with little to no means and little to no education (as though it was anyone's to give in the first place) and that as all in the 19th century... And then the 20th century happened... And they see us, stuffed in our ghettos desperate for food and means to feed our family, give us drugs to sale as some semblance of an income, lynch us, beat us... All in the name of Justice to secure white America's freedom (as though they had none) and now in the 21st century... They are still killing us, us who are the descendants of Kings and Queens, Leaders and Elders.... Us, who built these cities, Us, who are still expendable despite their many contributions and their many niceties. But just as Kings and Queens of yore, the battle cry has been yelled and the drums of war are beating... Once again we rise as Warriors saying no more.... And you say THUGS... The brainwash is despicable! And our ancestors are saying Hell Yeh! We built these cities...yes, And it will be US who tear them down! Legislate and make the necessary changes! ?#?BlackAndBrownLivesMatter? ?#?NoJusticeNoPeace? ?#?LegislationOftenAriseFromAshes? ?#?YesPoliticalAndPersonal?

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Kings and queens?

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KAMPALA, Uganda — Apologies for the African slave trade should come from the chiefs who sold their people and not from U.S. President Bill Clinton during his tour of the continent, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said yesterday.

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Saying ``black traitors'' were more to blame than European slavers, Museveni rejected the view of some African-Americans that Clinton should publicly atone for a traffic which forcibly took millions of Africans to America in the 17th and 18th centuries.

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`I don't have time for that diversion or rubbish,'' he said in an interview

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``African chiefs were the ones waging war on each other and capturing their own people and selling them. If anyone should apologize, it should be the African chiefs. We still have those traitors here even today,'' Museveni said.

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