150 Years Later, Why Is America Still Haunted By the Legacy of Slavery? (general, 70's)
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America will soon implode. The currency is worthless without china buying the junk bonds and t-bills and without oil (from the Middle East and Africa) being used to prop up the dollar.
All they are doing is filling people's heads with anger and other emotions that are completely useless.
Teach them a vocation or send them to college. Tell them color doesn't matter and they are on their own to make something of their life. Quit stunting people with our guilt.
Color has always mattered, because the faulty premise of white supremacy allowed this nation to thrive and grow at the expense of its free black slave labor. And it will continue to matter, until this country is burned to the ground. The U.S. is heading for a major civil war --once the currency implodes.
History will repeat itself. Rome wasn't destroyed by invaders, it was destroyed from within.
Asians do not have the history that Africans have in this country.
My point was that just being a minority and not being fully integrated wasn't black's biggest problem necessarily. Chinese-Americans are a minority,have their Chinatowns and yet still produce their share of good students. One of the biggest problems with the Black community is that we aren't maximizing our ability to fully benefit from our economic power. Asians do a better job at this.
One of the biggest myths is that Black-Americans are poor as a group.
My point was that just being a minority and not being fully integrated wasn't black's biggest problem necessarily. Chinese-Americans are a minority,have their Chinatowns and yet still produce their share of good students. One of the biggest problems with the Black community is that we aren't maximizing our ability to fully benefit from our economic power. Asians do a better job at this.
One of the biggest myths is that Black-Americans are poor as a group.
This is because Blacks refuse to set up our own system. Why is it so important to work within their structures and live among them?
People laughed at Malcolm X, but he had it right, while Martin Luther King had it wrong. Integration was a major mistake. Instead of "integrating," blacks should have developed and created our own businesses, to serve our own communities and build our own structures.
....., and I've discovered in my research that whites are simply very violent and able to use the media (which is largely owned by them) to propagate the idea that they are superior.
I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, which is delivered to my doorstep every day of the year. I do not find any examples or evidence in it of the propagation of the idea that whites are superior to any other group. Specifically which media (i.e., exactly which newspaper(s), magazine(s), and TV network(s)) have you found to propagate that idea? Are you saying that the Los Angeles Times is some exceptional little bubble?
In truth, I hate living in America. I long for the day when I can pack my bags and leave for good. I'm not sure where I will go, but I hope to get the heck out of this place, in another decade.
I'm steadily saving for my independence and freedom from this nation.
One of Jackie Robinson's sons and his wife moved permanently to Africa (Tanzania, if memory serves) a number of years ago. Why wait another decade? If I hated living where I lived, I would think of getting out ASAP.
I subscribe to the Los Angeles Times, which is delivered to my doorstep every day of the year. I do not find any examples or evidence in it of the propagation of the idea that whites are superior to any other group. Specifically which media (i.e., exactly which newspaper(s), magazine(s), and TV network(s)) have you found to propagate that idea? Are you saying that the Los Angeles Times is some exceptional little bubble?
All of the media is used to propagate the notion of white supremacy to the masses. Your paper features a variety of stories about whites, correct? You read about whites buying homes, getting married, creating businesses, attending school, helping the less fortunate by volunteering etc, but how many stories have you read which feature other (non white people) in a positive light? Typically, when blacks are featured in the news, it's usually about crime, or welfare. Rarely are middle and upper income black endeavors ever discussed, so most simply believe that all blacks are struggling and/or are criminals. This perpetuates the notion of white supremacy.
One of Jackie Robinson's sons and his wife moved permanently to Africa (Tanzania, if memory serves) a number of years ago. Why wait another decade? If I hated living where I lived, I would think of getting out ASAP.
I could move to Africa, but the truth is, I have to pay off my student loans and that's what I'm currently doing. When I relocate, I want to be debt free and able to start my business from scratch in Ghana. I don't want to be tied down with paying American student loans back.
I am saving a substantial amount of money and marking off my calendar each and every day. Ten years seems like quite a while away, but it will be here soon...very soon.
All of the media is used to propagate the notion of white supremacy to the masses. Your paper features a variety of stories about whites, correct? You read about whites buying homes, getting married, creating businesses, attending school, helping the less fortunate by volunteering etc, but how many stories have you read which feature other (non white people) in a positive light? Typically, when blacks are featured in the news, it's usually about crime, or welfare. Rarely are middle and upper income black endeavors ever discussed, so most simply believe that all blacks are struggling and/or are criminals. This perpetuates the notion of white supremacy.
Yes, the Los Angeles Times carries stories showing non-white people in a favorable light.
Why don't we just let the history of it fade into obscurity? Slavery is not coming back. Why teach generation after generation about how bad the country was 150+ years ago? Why not just have a short period in US history about how certain groups were discriminated against and how far we have come since then and then move on. Why do we have to obsess over something none of us had anything to do with and none of us can do anything about?
All they are doing is filling people's heads with anger and other emotions that are completely useless.
Teach them a vocation or send them to college. Tell them color doesn't matter and they are on their own to make something of their life. Quit stunting people with our guilt.
OMG! YES!!!
Yes, slavery was a bad thing for many people. Yep, it was. There is still slavery, it's just on a smaller level, now. Now, we are ALL slaves (to a certain extent) of the government. We belong to them. If you try to kill yourself, you can be hauled into court and tried for attempted murder. WTF?
Some people keep the up the constant, pitiful, whining, about what happened to their g-grandparents or grandparents, because some people need excuses and attention.
Hey! We're ALL slaves, okay!? Reality!!! If you are a typical working American, you are a slave to the U.S. Government!
My ancestors came to America to escape from that BS. There's really no escaping though, is there? If you're working and having to pay taxes (a portion of your income, off the TOP), if you own a home and have to pay state and property taxes......HELLO!!?? We Are All Slaves. We're all in the same boat. Even while people were owning slaves, they were slaves themselves! The government owns us all, period.
Oh hey, though? Let's keep doing the ole whine and blame game, holding grudges against folks who had no control over what their ancestors did or did not do. Tell me what good that serves? I'll tell you what it does. It manipulates people's perspective. If people are solely focused on THAT type of slavery, the kind that occurred 150 years ago, we won't realize that WE are the slaves. Oh...they're going about it differently than the plantation and factory owners did (sort of), but it's still slavery, all the same.
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Reality!!! If you are a typical working American, you are a slave to the U.S. Government! 
