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More than that...and since we are discussing a whole continent in comparison to a country, that makes a significant number of Africans better off.
Some wealthy people from Africa or majority/significantly African places come to the U.S. but many don’t come over because overall the U.S. is not the better choice.
The practice of chattel slavery in the Americas, and US in particular, isn't really comparable to the generational slavery in other parts of the world. Those slaves, for the most part, were allowed to marry, have families, and even have their own land & possessions in some cases. American slavery centered around seperating families, preventing them from marrying, disallowing their native culture and religions from being practiced, taking away their names, etc.
Not true. Most slave owners did not separate families. Slave owners understood it devastated them & wanted their slaves to be happy, productive workers, as much as slaves could be. There are many common misconceptions about slavery, including the idea that slavery was a Southern thing, when in fact most slave owners were in the North, or that slaves were routinely beaten or physically mistreated, or that the females were raped, or the families separated, etc. Slaves were generally thought of & treated by the slave owners, the way we think of & treat domestic employees today. Of course there were sadistic slave owners that mistreated their slaves (and likely everyone else), like every other aspect of society, but separating families, beating the slaves, raping the women, etc. were the exceptions, not the rule. This is not to suggest slavery wasn't bad or that these horrible things never happened, simply that is was not "centered around separating families".
More than that...and since we are discussing a whole continent in comparison to a country, that makes a significant number of Africans better off.
Some wealthy people from Africa or majority/significantly African places come to the U.S. but many don’t come over because overall the U.S. is not the better choice.
You don't understand percentages do you? the only reason they wouldn't come to America is because it's hard to do legally or for family reasons. Poor Africans wouldn't be better that's for sure.
the only reason they wouldn't come to America is because it's hard to do legally or for family reasons.
That is not true at all depending on the African country they might be better off staying. Simply generalizing all Africans as a monolithic group is disingenuous and leads me to think you really don't know very much about the continent at all.
That is not true at all depending on the African country they might be better off staying. Simply generalizing all Africans as a monolithic group is disingenuous and leads me to think you really don't know very much about the continent at all.
What African country would they be better off? No african country has the social programs, schools, handouts, affirmative action(except South Africa) and opportunities America has, so the vast majority of Africans would be better off in America. The whole concept of white privelege is a generalization.
And how can you do anything other than generalize when discussing groups of people? That's the whole point of generalizing. should I go through every person in Africa one by one and discuss them individually for you?
I admit it. Yes, people in developed nations, of average fare better than people in developing nations.
Does this mean you're willing to accept your white privilege?
I am white and this lunacy of white priviledge was invented by idiot SJWs. No such thing. Just a term that the perpetually outraged used to gain more free stuff.
I am white and this lunacy of white priviledge was invented by idiot SJWs. No such thing. Just a term that the perpetually outraged used to gain more free stuff.
All white privilege means is you don't have to fear for your life if you have a run in with the police. Its a poorly chosen phrase meant to elicit an emotional reaction like what you just said.
All white privilege means is you don't have to fear for your life if you have a run in with the police. Its a poorly chosen phrase meant to elicit an emotional reaction like what you just said.
Don’t commit a crime or something equally stupid and you will have no problems.
Don’t commit a crime or something equally stupid and you will have no problems.
That simply isn't true sadly many people have been executed by the police. The police honestly need to be reigned in a bit.
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