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re: Florida mayoral candidate tells opponent's supporters to "go back to Africa"
Posted on 7/20/17 at 10:17 am to Big Nick Digga
Posted on 7/20/17 at 10:17 am to Big Nick Digga
quote:so you came looking for a fight? tpyical racists. wants to spew their word and wants answers but wont ever answer questions directed at them.
, you were putting up a good fight
and btw there are plenty of pill popper and meth heads in jail. the difference is the black community gets popped with green while breaking other laws and those are the charges the plead down to in court.
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Posted on 7/20/17 at 10:24 am to CarRamrod
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so you came looking for a fight?
No just a saying for debate.
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tpyical racists.
There you go with the name calling again. I don't think blacks are superior to any other race, hence I am not a racist.
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wants to spew their word and wants answers but wont ever answer questions directed at them.
What question you want me to answer.
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and btw there are plenty of pill popper and meth heads in jail.
Not to statistically represent the numbers of the population that abuses these drugs. In fact drugs that are abused on a smaller scale compared opiods represent the majority of the drug offenders in prison.
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the difference is the black community gets popped with green while breaking other laws
Is that how it happens?
I am sure they are not targeted because they are black.
Oh and whites only do meth they don't break any other laws. Other than the drug abuse they are upright citizens.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 10:26 am to CarRamrod
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and most people in american proven by the fact that Trump was elected.
Not most Americans. 31% of American voters. 32% of Americans didn't bother to get off their asses.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 10:52 am to Big Nick Digga
quote:lolwut?
I am sure they are not targeted because they are black.
Oh and whites only do meth they don't break any other laws. Other than the drug abuse they are upright citizens.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:29 am to chinhoyang
Congemi also said that he was originally a Democrat but switched parties after Obama came out in support of gay marriage.
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 11:30 am
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:38 am to Big Nick Digga
quote:In fairness he was responding to talk about a group that is pro-reparations, not just "blacks talking about their experiences in this country" as you insinuated.
Why yall get so defensive when blacks talk about their experience in this country?
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:39 am to Rouge
Medieval Ghana, Mali and Songhay weren't bad.
Granted that their prosperity largely stemmed from selling their own people into slavery.
Granted that their prosperity largely stemmed from selling their own people into slavery.
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 11:41 am
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:42 am to Jackalope
quote:This, all day. Great point, happens all too often.
It's not. Does it have a racial element? You betchya. Does saying anything that happens to have an element of racial connotation = racism. ABSOLUTELY NOT.
Anyone claiming differently is either lacking the critical thinking skills necessary to form an opinion on the matter, or is intellectually dishonest.
quote:And...not a great point.
Not a single Black-American alive has been a slave. Let that sink in. Dolt.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:42 am to Big Nick Digga
quote:yall have a tendency to bent or break the truth when talking about your experiences in this country.
Why yall get so defensive when blacks talk about their experience in this country?
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:43 am to shel311
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This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 11:45 am
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:44 am to Jackalope
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Slavery has impacted every black person in America.
No it hasn't. Neither you or your parents were slaves.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:48 am to Rouge
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Face it. Africa, with the exception of the ancient Egypt and the Moors of northern Africa, has been a dumpster fire for all of recorded history
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history
You should read more of it.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:52 am to chinhoyang
Clearly racist. I live in Alabama and the open and celebrated racism I see on this site is surprising to me. Even more surprising is that people who are openly racist get upset when labeled as such.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:53 am to sjmabry
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0% today were victims but 100% of white people today are responsible? No guilt here. None. GTFO
I actually agree with your eye roll.
The poster was correct in that the descendants are no longer slaves. However, using 'the most whites didnt own slaves' statement is really ignoring the point.
We know most whites didnt own slaves, but slavery was an economic engine that the US was using at the time. Just because your profession circa Antebellum did not directly require slaves, it didnt mean that you still did not gain benefits from slavery.
Like how we have the oil industry in many states. Most people will never own a refinery or have oil on their land. However, the public in those nearby cities benefit from the tax revenue of that industry (as many of you on this website have attested to in LA and TX).
And no, modern day whites are not to blame for slavery. Unfortunately its a vicious cycle.
The US government is actually directly responsible. But unfortunately they will use our modern day tax dollars to fix previous incidents in which we had no control.
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 11:54 am
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:54 am to Big Nick Digga
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But everyone but blacks benefited from their labor.
really?
lets see...a large percentage of the violent crimes committed in this country are by blacks so how is that beneficial to everyone?
the ones who benefited from slavery are the descendants of slaves...unless you truly believe living in africa is better than living in america
Posted on 7/20/17 at 11:58 am to chinhoyang
What's the rational for giving the money to people who weren't slaves? The German Holocaust reparations went to actual victims of the Holoucaust. Sherman's 40 acres and a mule idea was for former slaves too, not their descendants.
And not all white Americans are descendants of slaveholders, but pretty much all black Americans are. So if we limit it to descendants of slaveholders paying descendants of slaves, wouldn't that results in blacks paying themselves?
Also how much black ancestry do you need to have to get the reparations? What if you're like Susie Phipps, the 1/32 (1/64?) black women who kept suing Louisiana to be considered legally white? Would she get reparations? What about the descendants of Sally Hemmings? (Who would be about 1/128 or 1/256 black now.)
What about in 800 years when almost everybody in America will be descended from a slave?
And not all white Americans are descendants of slaveholders, but pretty much all black Americans are. So if we limit it to descendants of slaveholders paying descendants of slaves, wouldn't that results in blacks paying themselves?
Also how much black ancestry do you need to have to get the reparations? What if you're like Susie Phipps, the 1/32 (1/64?) black women who kept suing Louisiana to be considered legally white? Would she get reparations? What about the descendants of Sally Hemmings? (Who would be about 1/128 or 1/256 black now.)
What about in 800 years when almost everybody in America will be descended from a slave?
Posted on 7/20/17 at 12:01 pm to chinhoyang
let em have the Mexicans for a while. make the announcement with a 30 day advanced notice. lots of problems solved with that one.
Posted on 7/20/17 at 12:11 pm to volod
Economists pretty much universally agree that the benefits of slavery are vastly overrated.
Slavery slowed the South from industrializing. It also concentrated wealth in the hands of people who could own slaves, and harmed small farmers economically. Owning slaves is more expensive than most people realize. The cost of owning slaves wasn't necessarily that much lower than the value of labor they provided. Unwilling workers (understandably and justifiably) often don't work very hard, at least when the overseer isn't watching.
And any economic benefits slavery might have provided were more than wiped out by the damage of the Civil War.
Slavery slowed the South from industrializing. It also concentrated wealth in the hands of people who could own slaves, and harmed small farmers economically. Owning slaves is more expensive than most people realize. The cost of owning slaves wasn't necessarily that much lower than the value of labor they provided. Unwilling workers (understandably and justifiably) often don't work very hard, at least when the overseer isn't watching.
And any economic benefits slavery might have provided were more than wiped out by the damage of the Civil War.
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 7/20/17 at 12:18 pm to chinhoyang
Here is an argument from theeconomist about why slavery wasn't economically beneficial. It doesn't even discuss the damage of the Civil War.
LINK
LINK
Posted on 7/20/17 at 1:03 pm to chinhoyang
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“Your reparations came in the form of a man named Barack Obama.” “My advice to you, if you don’t like it here in America, planes leave every hour from Tampa airport,” Congemi continued. “Go back to Africa. Go back to Africa. Go back!”
He's just saying what many are thinking and don't have the balls to say it.
This post was edited on 7/20/17 at 1:04 pm
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