Why od many blacks still bring up the slavery deal???
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They keep bringing it up because they don't know how to evolve.
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It's important because it pays respect to the millions that died fighting for our rights. When our ancestors came over here they was robbed of everything, there language,nationality,religion,culture,idenity, and there way of life to be replaced with that of slaves. Millions were kill just trying to keep this, while millions more died just in slave ships. Just think what it was like being chained up force to walk hundreds of miles to the coast, stripped naked, put on a ship pack with a bunch of sick people, dark, and flowing with all kinds of dieases for three months.  After that they were separated from there families, then sold as slaves. Next they were work from sun up to well after sun down for the slightest mistake 40 lashes. With all of this they where still singing and was joyest people so what better way to pay respect than to remember and celebrate all that they did. Most whites don't understand taking away black history will make their stuggles go in vain.
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Still waiting,  It's very hidden now but continues.  It probably will continue until we are all the same color, or there are truly no more people who prejudge others.\n\nSorry, but oppress on does exist in a very real way.  It's one of those things you don't always see when you are the majority.  Some Africans were sold by other Africans, but many were also stolen.  During the time of slavery we were then strategically mentally, educationally, and spiritually oppressed.  Meanwhile we also built the US through word, invention, and literally through labor. There are few who could survive such a thing, and the fact that we have is a testament to our strength.  \n\nStill today through covert ways Black Americans have oppressive experiences.  I was taught that I would have to be 2X as intelligent, 2X as fast, work 2X as hard, and be 2X as officiant as the next white man next to me to be noticed.  Often in my lifetime (I'm 25) this has held true.
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Because slavery isn't terrible they just get all itchy about the fact that there not worth as much as we are.LOL.
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yes i there still is. but it is in little dribs and drabs here and there. People are so afraid to be out and out racist that they say and do things quitely. For instance they may not give a black person as much work because they think they are lazy and not dependable. They may not serve them at a resturant because they think they won't get a tip. (See the question about black people at resturant). What makes me mad his how white people get mad when we say that actions against us are racist. but what they don't seem to understand is that if you are so upset that we play the "racecard" then stop dealing it! know the reason why we feel the way we do  and have some empathy. Look I am not blaming todays white youth for the problems of slavery. but if you know the history you would try to change it!
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How hasn't it... I am a 7th generation daughter of a slave and Looking back over the last 141 yrs, our people have went from being slaves of white owners to being slaves of themselves...like gangs and racial seperation among ourselves. We need to wake up and get our crap together.
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Why do black racist people advocate killing whites? Kind of a ridiculous question? So is yours. There are a few racists on both sides that advocate these thoughts, but not many. They are the fringe of the fringe. \n\nNot to mention that there are NO black people brought here as slaves that are alive today. If anyone wants to leave now, they can. If they want to stay here, they can. Freedom is a beautiful thing.
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Hey, yeah.  Makes you wonder.  So does Kuwait in the way they use their au pair and maid contracts.  So do many other countries.  Some would even argue that "wage slavery" is prevalent worldwide, but defacto slavery - where one has no rights except those provided by the owner or "boss" - is a real shocker to some people, supposedly even the US government!\nhttp://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Jun/23-943502.html\n\nThere is also unsanctioned, but accepted slavery, for example, in Turkey (PBS special on Russian sex slaves) and other countries worldwide.\n\nSlavery also still exists in the US.  Are you surprised?  Ever smoke pot or drive fast or drink under age?  Guess what?  People do incredibly vile illegal things too!  What sets this apart from mainstream culture, however, is the expense of importing, hiding, and eliminating the slaves.  Let's think about who in America can afford such things... hmmm...  Who could it be?  Well, maybe this is what we get for our trickle down theories?  Maybe what's trickling down isn't something we'd like to get on our clothes.\n\nSo now we come to the Bush Administration... wealthy, connected, more than enough money to lie and get away with it... Who are your friends in the billionaire club?  Ok, sure, there are some wonderful people there, but not everyone is so fantastic, are they?  No.  There are some real scum that many of us would take pleasure in lynching, no matter how nice of a person we like to think of ourselves.\n\nWe lie to ourselves that we are an open and free society while the rich are given tax breaks and the poor are told to do more with less.\n\nI'm not sure who the Jesus is that the Republicans supposedly worship.  Apparently it isn't the guy I read about in the Bible because I just can't imagine him wanting to create this sort of world.  So far as I can tell, the Bush Jesus tells us that all is forgiven as long as you vote against abortion and gay marriage.  I never thought Jesus was so myopic, but apparently I was wrong.\n\nThen again, look at the trades christians would have to make for joining the Democrats...   There should be a seperate Christian party that allows christians to side-step the demonic choice of "a lesser of two evils."\n\nOff of the soapbox:  What do you expect us to do?  Shall we invade India?  How about Pakistan?  Why stop there?  We could invade Russia for allowing their children to be abducted into slavery!  Yea, America!  We can save the world through domination!  Sound familiar?\n\nIf we quit trading, we place power into the hands of others.\n\nThe real question is, what is the solution?  How do we make it stop?\n\nWell, if you have humane answers to those questions and successfully implement them, you'll be world-famous and rich from people constantly wanting to have you speak at their houses of govenment, universities, stadiums - everywhere.\n\nI don't have the answer yet, but let's keep asking!\n\n(Ahem!  Nuclear bombs are irrelvant!  We own how many?  Doesn't that legitimize nuclear bombs as a form of national defense?  The current "war of rhetoric" with Iran is doctrinal and cultural.  We wouldn't complain if Sweden started making nukes.  In saying Iran has no right to nukes, we have practically already declared war because we say they have no right to a common form of national self-defense!)
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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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absolutely slavery exists even here in america.  it's not outright like it used to be when black people were corralled like cattle but don't you hear all the stories of the rings being busted here in the us.  mostly in the us it is sex slaves but around the world people are worked like slaves all their lives it's not something americans like to hear so lots of times we don't hear about it but with a little bit of digging you can find it.
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It not necessary, All it would do is make everyone mad except blacks, for blacks it would mean a lot of restless nights over the anger of some people. Is reparation owed? Yes but who gets it? Could it be the desendants of slaves or something else, one thing for sure is that this country always held on to it.\n\nThe thing about reparation is that it means to repair or to restore something. If we were to look at what America owes then we would find out that no amont of money could be restored. This nation simply do not have it. If the Black race were to get reparations from the goverment that took it, then they would still come up short.
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I hope you realize that all blacks aren't African-american.  Maybe you should rethink the question and ask how many blacks are in the U.S. today.  Hmm.
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I have no idea why they're so uptight. They feel that if they suffered in the past they have the right to be the country's little princesses. I've been to Europe and I swear black people aren't so uptight there. So the source for all this must be the frustration of african americans of having been enslaved by the white man in the past. Ok, we're all sorry. It's not going to happen ever again so you can all start behaving like everybody else now. Stop being so touchy.
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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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Very, but it can't happen because we whites abolished slavery.  No black alive in America today ever was a slave, and no white alive in America today ever owned one.  I don't see how the blacks alive today have any standing at all regarding slavery 140 years ago.\n\nAnd take a look at Africa, and consider our immigration picture.  Do you think blacks in America today would rather their family had stayed in Africa, where slavery continued much longer than here?  Granted what happened to their ancestors was terrible, for those alive today, are they worse off than if their families had remained?
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No, I own my own business and am obviously older than you.\n\nFirst, study your history.\nBlack slaves were more physically capable than whites or Indians and quickly replaced both in agriculture which demanded hard, manual labor under bad conditions. No other group as a race was as strong and productive. Without them, the South would not have benefitted from a strong cotton and sugar industry. The North that bought these products and processed them would not have been as productive either. It was only when the south threatened to go directly to Europe where prices were cheaper than the more expensive North that the slavery issue became a galvenizing force for the North to attack the more rural and agricultural south. There were still slaves in the North during this conflict so it was not just riteous indignation that spawned the liberation of the blacks.\n\nAfter the war, many blacks continued to work on the farms where they had worked their whole lives. Life was much more difficult then and it has only been in the last 100 years or so that most of our population lives in cities.\n\nAfter the war, it took all of us time to heal. Blacks, Southerners, Northerners, etc. Blacks still helped rebuild the South after the war.\n\nNow, we have a huge population that lives in cities. As a whole, I cannot definitively say that blacks are equal to the other races in productivity. Many of their decendents were brought here for their physical attributes and they have been surpressed after the war as well.\n\nI think that we are now at a cross roads. Blacks, as a race, probably have more rights than whites but have not been allowed to complete a transition that can take decades.\n\nI think most people would appreciate it if you would learn more about history and not feel so cormfortable sitting at your computer and spreading racism. You are being more lazy and hateful than those you attack.\n\nUndoubtedly, your stupid comments have hurt and alienated a good many people of all nationalities. So start using Yahoo for something productive because right now, I think America's economy would be much better off without people like you, no matter what race you are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If there is it's the ones that SOME black's  put up themselves. I don't think many white people really care about color anymore. It's all in their heads (black people).\nSome of them still want to feel like white people owe them something for what happend to their great great great great grand pappy. As if they were the only race that was drug into slavory.  I'm not black or white and I see that.