Did you know that civil rights were demanded by Blacks for ALL people? Would any Latino do the same for Black people?
206495
yep your question sure shows that you probably are thirteen! I am not understanding the real question.. are you trying to find out how many people share your narrow minded point of view??? that would be my guess!
319991
My grandfather told me about a cousin who did this back in the forties. The cousin went up North to live and didn't contact anyone.  My grandpa went to visit him one time; the cousin made him come at night and he had to enter the house through the back.  After that no one ever saw the cousin again.  My mother told me about some Blacks who "passed" for a time in order to get a better education, but then returned to their families once they were done.  I can see why some Blacks would pass in earlier times, but not now.  I don't agree with what they did, but to some extent I understand why.  Personally even if I could "pass" I wouldn't; I love my family, my people and my culture too much.  People who "pass" had to stay away from all Black people.  Can't take a chance on someone's "Blackdar" finding you out!
297211
I love everybody and all races.  That's what makes America so diverse. Mexicans deserve to be here like every other race.  They are coming from places where they don't have anything.  It is at least our duty to help them out or to make them legal citizens.  They are comming for jobs and freedom like everyone else who migrated here from another country.  We are America for the people by the people and we will stand strong on our beliefs.
152285
You would think a lot of Americans think that way with the responses on these pages. The African American and Latino population alone could sway the vote in America. The question is which way are they going to turn after all of the abuse.
240090
They could if they wish. \n\nAlthough some whites want to be black to take away the little we have - most suspect how tough it really is.   \n\nYou have no idea what you're in for; you're seeing it from a distance - it's not easy.  You think you are the only racist we have to deal with.  We deal with more complex and damaging acts of racism EVERYDAY all day.  \n\nBut I wish you do try it, You may not be as bitter and jealous as you are now and I guarantee you will learn something.\n\nBy the way was your name discriminator or easytyme813?\n\nYou should learn to live with us because 'we aint going nowhere' without you.  If my race becomes extinct so will yours.  We are original man - you were spawned from us! And you will return to us - look around it's happening.
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For those who said no, do you know that for sure?  I found this quote in an article:\n\nHow many Americans are aware that in New Orleans over 3,000 freed slaves owned slaves? The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves. \n\nI think the topic needs more research.\n\nHere's another article:\n\nhttp://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a899fdb32fd.htm\n\nIn a society molded by highly skewed and agenda-selective presentations of history, the tightest censorship involves the fact that large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.\nThe census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).\n\nIn the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2).\n\nAccording to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.\n\nTo return to the census figures quoted above, this 28 percent is certainly impressive when compared to less than 1.4 percent of all American whites and less than 4.8 percent of southern whites. The statistics show that, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters.\n\nThe majority of slaveholders, white and black, owned only one to five slaves. More often than not, and contrary to a century and a half of bullwhips-on-tortured-backs propaganda, black and white masters worked and ate alongside their charges; be it in house, field or workshop. The few individuals who owned 50 or more slaves were confined to the top one percent, and have been defined as slave magnates.\n\nIn 1860 there were at least six Negroes in Louisiana who owned 65 or more slaves The largest number, 152 slaves, were owned by the widow C. Richards and her son P.C. Richards, who owned a large sugar cane plantation. Another Negro slave magnate in Louisiana, with over 100 slaves, was Antoine Dubuclet, a sugar planter whose estate was valued at (in 1860 dollars) $264,000 (3). That year, the mean wealth of southern white men was $3,978 (4).\n\nIn Charleston, South Carolina in 1860 125 free Negroes owned slaves; six of them owning 10 or more. Of the $1.5 million in taxable property owned by free Negroes in Charleston, more than $300,000 represented slave holdings (5). In North Carolina 69 free Negroes were slave owners (6).\n\nIn 1860 William Ellison was South Carolina's largest Negro slaveowner. In Black Masters. A Free Family of Color in the Old South, authors Michael P. Johnson
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That's exactly what I've been saying.  People love to complain about everythin but really don't want to do anything to change things.  They want everyone else to do it for them.\n\nWhy do you think the Latinos are getting their way?  THEY ARE ORGANIZED and get off their butts.
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Liberals have done that to whites also, but not at the rate they have to blacks.  They preach that blacks are worthless and cannot do anything unless the Democrats/government is there to hold their hands.  I think the Dems are still holding a grudge against the end of their reign as slave holders.  They even lost their hold as sharecropper overlords, KKK members and Jim Crowe law writers.  Welfare was their last trick to destroy the black race.
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We already have Latinos in my neighborhood, we also have black people now  (at one time it was all white).  They all have jobs, speak English and are decent people who do not cause any problems. They comprehend that garbage is supposed to be put in garbage bags, not thrown into the street.  They keep their home nice and well-maintained.  Their kids are polite and stay off other people's property, and ask permission if they want to go on ours for some reason.  I do not really care whether the person is white, black or Latino, as long as they do not cause problems in the neighborhood, I have no problem with them being there.  But if they do cause trouble, I do not want them there, no matter what race they are.
659912
I really think the indains should have more of an issue with white people than the blacks should. But it really wasn't that long ago that we whites where hanging blacks... and really that takes awhile to just get over it.   I just wonder how white people would feel if thier grandparents and great grandparents where taken out and hung because they wanted to vote or ride in the front of the bus.   We as whites and blacks need to remember the history behide this issue so that it will never repeat itself again.    As far as racism goes there will always be racism due to the fact that there will be always someone with feelings of being better than someone else.  It needs to be forgiven but never forgotten...and I myself am very sorry for what my past white americans done to the black americans.  I just wished that white americans would take care of their own like the black americans take care of theirs but then again we have never been taken out of our beds to hang because of our color.. while our children watched.   It really wasn't that long ago.
253758
Girl i'm black and my man is latino. I say to hell with everyone else, you do what makes you happy! If you two love each other thats all that matters.
347395
Hey dude calm down this is 2006. All the slaves are dead. And who the hell are you to throw off your beliefs on someone else? Get a life.  I am black as hell and I don't ever think about what they did 100 years ago. Not even during Black History month.
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I am sick and f*cking tired of black people playing the race card every time they don't like something or another that happens in their life. Get the hell over it already! I mean hell, when you think about it black people almost have MORE rights than white people do. How do you think it was that OJ got away with murder? And for another thing, I hate to break it to all the people who associate the confederacy with slavery, but guess what? There were people who had slaves up north, too! Not to mention that racism didn't stop at the southern half of the Mason Dixon line, as racism was once just as plentiful up north. But anyways to answer your question, like the other person said, the rebel flag is a piece of southern history, so as far as the states that were a part of the CSA I say let them have it. If black people can get reparations for the treatment of ancestors they probably wouldn't even care about if  it wasn't for the money, and that they never even had to experience personally,  then southern people should be able to still fly the rebel flag as a part of their history. So long story short (I know, too late) I would have to say that it is heritage, in just the same way that we have In God We Trust on our money even though so few people in this country believe in, let alone put their trust in God.
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WOW!!! Finally... Something You And I Agree On Pancha\n\nThe Black Community In Our Nation Is Largely Composed Of  The Descendents  Of  People That Were VICIOUSLY STOLEN From Their HOMES And FAMILIES \nAnd Brought To This Country AGAINST Their Will, \nAnd TREATED Like ANIMALS And PROPERTY, \nAnd SUFFERED BEYOND COMPARE To ANY OTHER PEOPLE In Our Nations History \n\nILLEGAL ALIENS in America are here only because \nthey are GUILTY of CRIMINAL VIOLATION of our FEDERAL LAWS, \nJumping our borders and living in a shadowy underground economy. \n\nThey are Morally Culpable for Shoving Aside those who Adhere to the Law \nand Enter These United States in an Orderly and Legal Fashion\n\nThere Is NO COMPARISON Here   \n\nTHERE IS NO INJUSTICE HERE -Except To The AMERICAN TAXPAYERS-  \n\nWHERE IS THE INJUSTICE To The ILLEGAL Immigrants???\n\nILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS  SNEAK  Into Our Nation Without Authorization, \nAnd STEAL The RIGHTS Of American Citizens \nThe RIGHTS That MANY Have DIED FIGHTING To Get For This Country\n\nAll The While Enjoying The Liberties That American Citizens \nHave Worked HARD For Over 200 Years Through Our History To Get\n\nThey Are Trying To Steal AMERICAN HISTORY \n\nAnd Now They Are Attempting To STEAL THE RIGHTS  That Dr. King FOUGHT SO HARD For \nAnd GAVE HIS LIFE To Get For His Community\n\nAnd Then They Have The AUDACITY To COMPARE This To The CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT??? \n\nNOONE  EVER  Held YOU In Chains- \nNOONE  EVER  Bought Or Sold YOU-\nNOONE  EVER  FORCED YOU To SLAVE In The Cottonfields AGAINST Your Will- \nNOONE  EVER  Chased YOU Around In White Pajamas In The Middle Of The Night- \nOr HUNG YOU From A TREE And WHIPPED You Till You Were CRIPPLED Or Dead- \nNOONE  EVER  Blew Up YOUR House Of Worship, Killing YOUR Children- \nYOU NEVER Had To Sit At The Back Of The BUS - \nYOU NEVER WERE DENIED SERVICE At A LUNCH COUNTER- \nOr DENIED The Use Of A RESTROOM- \nOr A WATER FOUNTAIN- \nOr A SCHOOL- \nOr A HOSPITAL- \n\nNOT ONE OF YOU EVER ONCE Had To Experience The INDIGNITY That The Black Community Faced In This Nation \n\nYOU STOLE Your Way Into This Nation \nTo Get UNLIMITED, FREE  HEALTH, EDUCATION, And WELFARE Benefits \nOut Of The POCKETS Of Hardworking American CITIZENS  \n(Black,  White,  Hispanic,  Italian,  German, Polish,  Asian,  MiddleEastern, CITIZENS - Need I Say MORE???) \n\nThe Black Community NEVER HAD The BENEFITS That ILLEGAL Immigrants Are Taking (STEALING) For Granted \nAnd THEY WERE CITIZENS, Crushed By OPPRESSION\n\nTill Dr. King Began To Open Our Eyes\n\nThe ILLEGAL Immigrants Were NOT Peacefully Protesting, \nAs Dr.King Would Have Surely Condoned - \nThey WERE Of A MOB Mentality \nAnd They WERE DEFACING OUR AMERICAN FLAG \nAnd THREATENING AMERICAN CITIZENS \n\nI NEVER Heard Of ONE Instance Where Dr. King \nOr ANY Of His People \nDEFACED Or DESTROYED An American Flag - \nOr THREATENED ANYONE \n\nHIS People Protested PEACEFULLY \nBecause Dr. King INSISTED On It\n\nAnd They Were Subject To Even MORE Indignity. \n\nHe Was PROUD To Be An American \nAnd  HE  SET Some  Of The STANDARDS \n\nThat We TRY To Live By As American Citizens Today \n\nThere Is NOT ONE AMONGST You ILLEGAL Aliens \nThat Can Even Begin To TRY To Compare Yourself \nTo The Caliber Of The Man That Dr. King Represented As An AMERICAN CITIZEN  \n\nI Believe That Dr. King Would Be OUTRAGED At The THOUGHT \nOf Comparing THIS Issue With HIS EFFORTS To This Nation During HIS Civil Rights Movement \nAnd Im Concerned That The ENTIRE BLACK COMMUNITY In This Country Isnt Feeling OUTRAGED As Well \n\nI Know I Am, And Im A White Man\n\nYOU WANT RIGHTS???- YOU WANT CIVIL RIGHTS???- Petition YOUR Government-  \nGo Back To YOUR COUNTRY \nAnd Start Your OWN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT\nDont Try To STEAL It  From The MEMORY Of A GREAT MAN Like Dr. King \nDont Try To STEAL AMERICAN HISTORY \n\nHAVENT You STOLEN ENOUGH From America???\n\nGo Find Your Own Crusader,  One That Has His Own Dream,  For His Own  People\nSTOP TRYING To INSULT  Dr. Kings Drea
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I cannot be responsible for my ancestors' decisions. I can, however, be responsible for myself and make sure that I don't make the same mistakes. Of course, blacks have rights, but they don't have any more right to monetary compensation than the Jewish or Irish who suffered racism in a different context. Slavery is wrong. Period. Sadly, slavery is as old as history itself, but that should only mean that we should always fight against it.
57554
Well, they did give them equal rights and the right to vote. There are also cases of affirmative action (choosing a person for a job or college because they are of a different race; it's also called reverse racism).
618332
ppl around this area think black people are all rappers that wear their pants down and their boxers hanging out, and that they dont have a job. i happen to be friends with them and they are nothing like that. i also hear things about hispanics in our area. people think all hispanics are lowdown, dirty, poor people that live 20-30 people in a house. well, i hate this, because it is not true. they arent all illegal, and most of them work harder than american people!!