O.k.,I understand the whole slavery issue and the predjudice the blacks were forced to endure from the whites.But do these people not realize that if it were'nt for the WHITE people it's possible that slavery could still exist today?Are they all so self centered that they cannot give credit to any WHITE person who helped develope the underground railroad?Do blacks honor President Lincoln for setting them free?Are there any black museums in America that list the hundreds of thousands of names of those WHITE men who lost their lives so the blacks could live free?All anyone would have to do is watch the movie "The Gangs of New York"to realize that white folks were'nt exactly living the great life back then.The white people were fighting their own war for their very survival.And it's understandable to me that white families ripped apart for a cause unimportant to them would create so many hard feelings.But after a couple of generations it should have been put to rest on BOTH sides!
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Excellent points!  We're always being told that our ancestors enslaved them, but we're never told that our ancestors also fought and died to free them.  It's been 140 years since there was slavery.  There are so many programs to help black people, at the expense of white people.  Its about time black people quit looking for excuses and try to make it like I know they can.  And don't start calling me prejudice cause I aint!
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I think it's a big issue still because if you compare back then and now it's very similar ... it's so hard for non-whites to gain any kind of power, they really have to fight for it...when a white man beat babe ruth's record everybody cheered.  when a black man did they accused him of being on steroids..and thats just one.\n\nand i'm sick of hearing people say ' what's your problem ?you were never a slave, and i never owned a slave so get over it'  like it's so easy to forget history of their ancestors who were treated like animals for so long....how can you just forget that it happened ?  maybe it would be easier if everybody was treated equal but we still can't even seem to do that.
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I know what you mean, the reason Blacks never got anything because they never has rights to. When slavery ended in 1865 they were still hated even in king's day which was 40 years ago. In 1955 Emmett Till was lynch to death for Wilsiling at a white woman, how could they demand reparation at that time. Remember that in 1965 blacks were just allowed to vote in Mississippi. Couldn't even vote how could they get Billions in reparations. All those people you mention got things because they had the right to at that time. The Blacks that were slaves are dead true, but the wealth they made for this country is still their, which America is still not entiled to.\n\nYes blacks will get reparations more than you could imagine for Americas crime don't you read the prophecys and scriptures?\n\nMLK Jr\n"Don't let anybody make you think God chose America as his divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world. God has a way of standing before the nations with justice and it seems I can hear God saying to America, "You are too arrogant, and if you don't change your ways, I will rise up and break the backbone of your power, and I will place it in the hands of a nation that doesn't even know my name. Be still and know that I'm God."\n\nAmerica pride will not allow them to admitt any wrong doing, "because those kinda things happen" they blame it on the "Africans" "Blacks" or anyone esle for the crime of their fathers and their country. Just read the questions like this on here most Whites will blame it on everyone but their own people, who committed a 440 year old crime.\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
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oh man this question is just asking for racist responses...\nI mean, just look at genius's response above.\n\nI'm sick of people saying "oh blacks don't work hard", they're "stupid and lazy" while Jews are hard working, and are the epitome of the American Dream.\n\npeople always bring up the fact that people are not directly affected by slavery, but then again, you fail to realize that slavery ended about 140 years ago, so obviously there are no black slaves alive today.  However, white people still had their way, enacting laws keeping blacks from voting (with literacy tests and the Grandfather Law. disgusting.).  They kept blacks from eating next to them in public until 30-40 years ago.  Even though they lost their power over blacks on the plantation, they still kept it in every other aspect of American society.\nIt's just another step for the white man to sweep all embarrassing acts of racism of the past under the rug:\n-Slavery & racism towards blacks.\n-Stealing the Indians' food when the whites couldn't figure out how to make their own ("Thanks'taking'")\n-Stealing the Indians' land to build railroads and civilization and killing innocent women & children in doing so.\n-Immigration laws refusing many groups of peoples into the country, most recently the Asians.\n-The rounding up of American citizens and seizing of all of their property... sending them to prison camps and then not returning their property once they're released.  That was the racism of WWII against Americans of Japanese decent.\nthe list goes on and on, these were the ones off the top of my head.
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It is part of the rebalance of pride.  Black slaves were beaten like dogs and worked like well slaves under the rule of whiteman. They lost their sense of self worth during this time and is slowly rebuilding it now.\n\nIt is a shame we can't be equal (and No We Are Not All Equal) and color blind. But it's the way it is today.  The majority of childhood hero's are white, all the presidents are white, and most entertainers today are white (though this is changing the most with music and hiphop).\n\nBlacks are just a guilty for the lack of integration as the whiteman. But the over compensation of pride black youth has today will continue to hinder most interraccial relationships for years to come.
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You are one of the few who are outspoken about this history which is awful for sure. But I think a lot of black and white women aren't knowledgeable or aware of it, so then what would cause the perceived hatred between them? Personally I haven't seen it, but I live in a small northern town. My guess would be that now that black people are finally getting educations and rising above the circumstances set against them from their history here in US that there seems to be a desire in black men to hunt out white women which can understandably aggravate black women who want to preserve something about their culture apart from the ecclectic mix of cultures that we enjoy here in the US.
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Why do so many people want to take away black history month. This goes all the way back to the slave master days when they made it the sole job to erase all of our history, our culture, names, language and most of all our identity and nationality. So that we as a people will forget who we are and were we come from, then replace it with new history there history. \n\nIn 1832 a U.S. Senator named Henry Berry said to the Virginia house of Delegates: "We have as far as possible closed every avenue by which the truth may enter the slave's mind. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the truth, our work would be complete. They would then be on the level with the beast of the field". \n\nWillie Lynch said:\nOur experts warned us about the possibility of this phenomenon occurring, for they say that the mind has a strong drive to correct and recorrect itself over a period of time if it can touch some substantial original historical base and they advise us that the best way to deal with this phenomenon is to shave off the brutes mental history and create a multiplicity of phenomena of illusions, so that each illusion will twirl in its own orbit, something similar to floating balls in a vacuum.\n\nZechariah 11: 4 - 5,\n\nTHUS SAID The Lord; FEED THE FLOCK OF THE SLAUGHTER;\n\n(5) WHOSE POSSESSORS KILL THEM, AND HOLD THEMSELVES NOT GUILTY: AND THEY THAT SELL THEM SAY, BLESSED BE The Lord; FOR I AM RICH: AND THEIR OWN SHEPHERDS PITY THEM NOT.\n\nIn a book by Professor Andrew Hacker entitled Two Nations, Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal, on page 4, he says:\n\n"Most whites will protest that they bear neither responsibility nor blame for the conditions Blacks face. Neither they nor their for bearers ever owned slaves nor can they see themselves as having held anyone back or down." Today the younger generations of Whites resent being held morally or financially responsible for the racial sins of their ancestors, even though as whites, they still enjoy the inherited advantages and privileges of slavery."
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To be honest I think most Blacks are looking for pay back, I heard some say innocent whites need to be kill just as innocent black were. Yes blacks need equality but lets be honest giving blacks equality doesn't offset over 300 years of oppression and struggle. On paper all people need equal rights seems fine, but look deeper into this issue, you will find that the black race deserves much more than equal rights. \n\nWhen Blacks were first "bought" (not sold) into slavery they were oppress from the time they were "purchase," not sold to whites. You can't sell nothing if no one is WILLING to buy it. Blacks were oppress from the time they got own until the time Dr. King died in 1968, by whites not Africans. Is giving the black race equal rights make right all the oppression they face?\n\nHow can 400 years of oppression which include segregation be made OK by giving them equality? Will equality fix or bring justice to the Millions America kill unjustified. Will equality fix or bring justice to tens of thousand that were lynch during the early 1900's. What about their lost knowledge of a language, religion, culture and customs? Will Brown was shoot over 1000 times beaten , then burned alive. These things did not happen in ancient times but in my and my parents generation. We were oppress so we couldn't vote this was only the 60's. So the ones who were slaves could not get anything for their misfortune because they had no rights to back then. Equal rights could not repay all that was done against the Black race. So in reality the two groups will never be equal one side had 300+ years of struggle and robbery while the other had/has 300+ years of privilege and benefits and the expense of one group, not just from free labor but from being on the side of the oppressors. That in it's self gave you privilege.\n\nTruth is the people who would have inherited the money their father SHOULD have got are still here. Just as the people and nation who inherited that borrow wealth, is still here, and the wealth is still here. So if Blacks got paid for that wealth they would have left their descendants with something rather than a spirit of poverty. As a result 70% of elderly blacks have no  financial assets. Which is a direct result form segregation design to keep the wealth in the white community and keep blacks from the houses, shools, and inherited wealth they help build for the white community. It's never to late to do what rights, however reparation will divide the country.\n\nBlacks don't need reparations but equality, and as I said equality is not giving blacks equal rights. Truthfully all the things the white race did or has done against the black race most surely can not be repaid with equality, neither can it be repaid with all the wealth this nation has.
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America was only one of a great many countries that had African slaves, and had only a small percentage of all the Africans taken for slavery. Central and South America had more, so did the Muslims. In fact, slavery still exists in Africa.\n\nTruth be told, it was first England, then America that espoused the abolitionist movement. Because every other culture and society on Earth had slavery prior to that time. We fought a civil war over slavery. \n\nSo blaming all your problems on America shows substantial ignorance of history.\n\nAnd human rights is a white anglo concept, anyway. Have a nice day!
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I'm white and I agree. It's just like the black college funds, colleges, television etc... Lord forbid there be a white college fund or white college or a white tv station. I agree with your boyfriend that because of the history looooooooooong ago it puts a damper on things now. But we shouldn't have to suffer for the actions of others. I am proud to be white and I am proud to be an American and I am pround to be from Oklahoma. Shouldn't I be allowed to flaunt it?  And it's also ok for other races to make fun of us in their comic gigs or whatever and say the work "Cracker" referring to us but we aren't allowed to say the word "Nigger" referring to them. I don't think either word should be used. I don't think any word like that  should be used to describe anyone. But I can't say I am upset about the slaves being brought over here. I am glad their offsprings are here. They are my friends. If it weren't for the slaves being brought over we may not have some of the great people we do have. I am disappointed in what happened to alot of them though. I feel for them. Though thank God that thinking is different now.\n\nOMGOsh!!!!!!!!!! \nI wrote out that so horrible "N" word to make a point and it got substituted with symbles but the word CRACKER is still there. See my point people. If we are supposed to be equal lets be equal.
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Actually most slaves were sold to the hispanic population of the Americas, but its simple. If a black man was to admit that blacks had as much in the creation of black slavery in the Americas, then it would take away a great deal of the social power he has. Personally I never owned a slave, oppressed or hindered a black person in any way. so if a black person wants to point the finger at me for anything, they can go fuck them selves, because they won't get any sympathy from me for what happened long before either of us was born. In truth poor African Americans have more opportunity for advancement in this country then poor whites. there is a higher percentage per capita of whites below the poverty level then blacks, and the same for those who are middle class.
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Black people feel that because their ancestors were the victims of slavery & oppression, they have the right to complain about what white people do. I feel sorry for the whites today that have to constantly watch what they say around us. It causes white people to act more hostile towards blacks. I think black people need to have a sense of humor & stop gettting offended when whites open their mouth to say something...life is just too short to harbor any resentments.
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Someone have to teach them. Since you really want to know I will tell you from the Blacks perspective. Believe me when I tell you rather you believe it or not, but if we don't tell them about their past will whites? Do you honest believe whites will teach them about the real history. Will whites say that Blacks were slaves and oppress for over 400 years,No. White America will say "African sold other Africans into slavery" White America will blame every single thing America has done against them on everyone in the World, except America(Their people). But have too much pride to say yeah it was our ancestors that kill over 40 million of your people and Lynch tens of thousands. They won't admit they had them mark like cattle, burned alive, shoot at them, sent dogs to bit them, rape them. No, what do they say "if only the Africans did not sell them" as if the Africans knew what was going on over here. They won't say that Blacks had their nationality took and religion, culture, customs and their way of life. They won't admit everything this nation has come from the foundation of slavery. \n\nThat's why we teach our kids this is because whites try to forget it to make 400 year old crime go unpunished. Especially when this nation still like to benefit from the millions that died in vain. I would say most blacks will not even care about it, if America man up to what it did and stop blaming 400 years of oppression on the "African" and todays Blacks. Whites say some blacks are poor because they blame things on whites and are to lazy to work, untrue. As I said Just 40 years ago blacks were marching to end segregation. So in other words most blacks have to start over they did not have nothing because they been rob so long. They do not have college funds for their kids, can't buy their kids cars because they inheritaged 400 years of nothing which in most cases devolops a spirit of poverty. Which is why other group come here and be successful over black because lots of black have a poor man spirit which is hard to break, even hard when they get older. Whites will not say that the poor blacks are not poor because they are lazy but because all their centuries of free labour went into our(Whites) hands. If your white then how many people you know had your parents help you in life, how many went to nice schools, someone to pay for your college, etc. Then compare it to blacks back in the 50's, and see that they had nothing and were trying to vote. Notice the difference, whites never had it as bad, just being white you have spiecal treatment and I'm talking about the 50's.\n\nIt not a reason to keep blacks back, thats what they won't us to think to make all that died for the benefit of America to go in vain. So they can continue to enjoy a 400 advantage.
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ROB, no one never pays for the crime America has commits against the black race, never. It the simple fact that to this day This nation has gone unpunished. I'm not talking slavery or things that are over which that can't be change. I'm talking about a country that keeps committing crimes against others and have too must pride to admit any wrong doing. That's my view as the last guy said it my be over BUT doesn't fix such crimes committed.\n\nI don't know what special treatment we had for 30 years, But a Law that supposedly give us equal rights. I'm sorry to say but were not the ones who had 400 years of the benefits from slavey nor did we heritage those benefits or have to benefit of just being white. Just go back 40 years ago to King's death for preaching truth they killed him. \n\nSo I feel ROB that my ancestor died in vain for the benefit of their slave masters descendants. Like any man, if someone in my family kill your relatives because of hate, would you have a right to be upset? Then I were to tell you get over the death of your relative that I know one of my people killed. Would you not be even more upset that the one who committed a crime against you told you to forget it? Then would you fell betrayed that he got away with it? Now imagine tens of million of your own people died or anyones people died for the benefit of the decsendants that killed them, would you not feel betrayed?
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It will never be clean, because blacks won't let it. My grandfather came from Hungary, and my father was the first one born here. So I have absolutely no ties to what happened, yet I have to get glared at by blacks (as if I owe them a food stamp because I am white). The real kicker of it all is that if they would tap into their intelligence just a bit, they would realize the real focus needs to be on AFRICA. AFRICA sold these people to the Americans, AFRICA made a handsome profit from the slave trade. AFRICA pulled these people out of their homes to collect a commission. Slavery did not last long in America until the majority of the whites said, this is wrong!, and chose to fight... to the death.... to free them. Where was AFRICA when it was time to fight for their people?! AFRICA sold them, got rich from their misery, abandoned them, and did not fight for them. Thousands of white men fought and died for their freedom, I think the part of "penance" has been paid. America has bent over backwards catering to the blacks, bending the laws to accomodate them, making things like black radio stations (although white radio stations would be a hate crime), the black expo (although the white expo would be a hate crime), and banning the use of the N word (although if they could not call us honky or craker that would be depriving them of freedom of speech and expression). The white people have done more than enough to say sorry for what happened, but sorry is not what they want. They want to sap off of the misery that people suffered 200 years ago. It is too inspiring to be a victim. Being a normal person isnt fun, you have to work and you get no special breaks. I am glad that my roots are in Hungary, because I seriously doubt the Hungarians would tolerate this kind of ignorance that we are tolerating. Its time to ask AFRICA for some answers.
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After 400 years of slavery should blacks be ahead of whites economically no in fact hell no why?? Because climbing the economic latter is like a race those who starts first have the ultimate advantage so its like this whites started runninng the economic race 400 whole years before blacks even thought of any type of wealth infact whites used blacks to get where they are today 400 yrs of payfree labor (free money in white peoples pockets) gav them anothere boost many whites have what youde call old money, money passed down from generations, which was generated by slavery, then theres fertile land, nourished by blacks. No real apologies made, no reparations, racism still exists although the majority of racist have no reaal reason to be angry (whites ancestors didnt suffer in America). Good thing is no no Great thing is no naa Astonishing thing is, is that Blacks havnt lost faith theyre still running the race and are catching up, through the many years of suffering if blacks didnt learn to do anything else they learned to surive and fight, so while blacks are running the race today theyre still fighting and surviving. Blacks are way far ahead of whites as far as the total outlook on life simply because theyve struggled for so long and lived without that theyve learned to appreciate the more simpler aspects of life therefore broadening the view. When you start off poor there is soo much more to look foward to but when you begin rich you loose the ability to indulge on the simpler  plesures. The African American race has sooo much to proud of and I think that they should embrace theyre past to prevail in the future, Black generations have come farther than many other races and they werent carried with money like many others. I say give blacks another 10 yrs and they would have caught up creating a tie unvailing equality for all Blacks in America shrinking racism to a diminutive peice of crap.
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To Ben/Sex : You need to get off of ur high horse! The kkk and the NAACP are in totally different capacities.The NAACP is not a hate group like the kkk. The NAACP never hurt or killed anyone. The kkk have burned down homes,burned crosses on people's properties and hung alot of Black abiding citizens. Blacks deserved same thing as whites. We are over dued! You are Ignorant!\n\nTo the questioner: People like Ben do not understand the true depths of slavery and these people like this think about themselves and not others! Whites do just tolerate and some go as far as not wanting us to come to their homes and churches in the year 2006.Slavery made be over literally for as chain and whips but whites are spiritually and mentally in bondage against blacks,asians,jews and hispanics! The kkk is still protesting to this day against equality. They used religion as a weapon to say that God sees other races as a abomination. They are sick people.What goes around comes around!