[quote]rainjack wrote:
rancho wrote:
Your reasoning is so selective, would not the question of bieng better off include mental illness from abuse of slavery,Analogy: often children who are abuse also abuse… It can take several generations for a family to get rid of that craps repetitive nature.
You’ve totally missed what I was saying. The original question on this thread was are blacks better off here because of slavery, or in Africa having never been captured and sold by their fellow countrymen? I am paraphrasing, but that is the question as I understood it.
The questiopn was never asddressed. It was met with charges of racism and other disparaging remarks. Regardless of the intent of the original poster, I thought it was at the very least a question worthy of discussion.
ProfX compared the treatment of slaves to that of the Holocaust, and I disagreed. Slaves weren’t brought over here to be killed. They were brought over because they were cheap LABOR.
Then he comes back and says that I need to wake up because I didn’t connect the dots from racial extermination and emotional abuse.
You guys are under the horrible misunderstanding that I agree that blacks are better off now. Show me where I said that. Show me where I have ever supported slavery. You can’t. But that’s not what this debate was about.
As for the tangent that began because I said that slaves were tractors - it serves no purpose.
I think it is very sad that all of you are heaping all the blame for the plight of the black man on SOuthern white folk when blacks themselves had as much to do with the slave trade as white southerners. [/quote]
Well are not the Good Southern White Folk at least solely responsible for what they did afther Slavery, what about the practice under which whites, motivated by extreme racism, would attack black Americans in myriad brutal ways to control them. Between 1882 and 1901, more than 100 people were lynched each year in the United States, and the great majority of them were southern African Americans–numbering nearly 2,000 men and boys killed in those two decades. The wave of mob murder continued unabated in the first two decades of the 20th century, numbering nearly 4,000 people by 1932, before tapering off in the 1930s and 1940s. Two or three people were lynched every week in the nation for over 30 years. Whites used mob violence and lynching to control all kinds of black behavior, from voting to manners and attitudes. Most lynchings happened in rural area and small towns whereas mob violence took place in cities. People were brutally murdered by being hung, burned, beaten, mutilated, dragged behind wagons, and other acts of savage torture. In most cases, the local police allowed the lynchings to occur, and witnesses often included the entire white community. In many cases, the victim’s body was cut up for souvenirs. Lynchings were usually justified as community responses to black assaults on white women. In fact, the vast majority of such attacks involved no alleged rape at all, and, typically, the black victims were men and some women who were politically active or economically successful. Many were innocent bystanders who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Blacks responded by launching a national movement to pressure Congress to pass Federal anti-lynching legislation, but these legislative attempts suffered defeat year after year due to the power of southern white senators.
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