If blacks hate everything about slavery why do they still believe in jesus?
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Especially the Catholic / Christian sects.\n\nEmperor Constantine "made" up the religion after he killed the nature lovers in a power stuggle to be rich.  Go figure - hey pope - you rule from murder.
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Probably the same reason why they think blacks comes from apes. they are ignorant . I jsut ignore them.
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It isnt really un christian technicly. As much as we'd like to think it is considering how vile a practice slavery is. But just as Christians finally saw the end of slavery (in America anyway) They also saw the beginning of it (Again, in America)They took it from the ancient Romans and made it so much worse. In ancient times, slaves were the people of the conquered nations of Rome, and the Romans generally treated them very well. Even making them Roman citizens after a period of time, so it was a bit like the endentured servitude of the early Americas. Christians perverted the alrady amoral practice into enslaving entire tribes for life because they felt they were "Heathens" and doomed to hell anyway. Although we are now much more enlightened, and most of us know that no one person is better than another, in those days they saw the slaves as inferior, which was as much a midieval prejudice as a Christian one.
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When you say why, I say why not?  If I truely believe in slavery, then I'd do it in a heart beat.  I'm sure there are things that you believe as true that others don't.  It was a culture thing.  You what I mean...Right?
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As for me,I am white and married my black man.  I did not associate with my family for three years, yet they called me and they just don't talk about him.  When they start talking trash I let them know, "conversation over"!  I guess, they do love me or they would have nothing to do with me.  I know they are prejudiced, but I KNOW HATE does NOT exist in heaven!  I have to control myself, also because HATE creates HATE!  I love my husband more than anyone or anything I know.  I was never really ME until I met a man who loves me and will do anything for me.  He is first a MAN, and then a BLACK man.  God loves us all.  Where does it ever say in the ten commandments, "thou shall not marry one of another race!"? Where in the new testament does is say such a thing? It DOES not!!
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Well throught the years the self-righteous have always tried to beat up on people that don't have their beliefs... And say well god said to do it... If there is a god I picture him being one of love not one who says "you are different" or "I hate the fags" you know in the bible it says you should keep slaves... I bet a certain group in very happy that their were good people who said no it's not ok to have slaves. Religion is evil... in the wrong peoples hand like Hitler, Bush Jr.
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I don't feel most white people hate blacks.  If they did, blacks would not be in the positions many successful blacks find themselves in today.  Does racism exist - absolutely,  but that is a knife which cuts both ways.\n\nThe difficulty many blacks have achieving in this country I feel can be attributed to the following reasons:\n\n1) The small percentage of blacks, particularly young black males,  which are responsible for a disproportionate percentage of crime in the country (particularly violent crime).  I have heard but can not recall the sourse that attributes 75% of murder in the country to black youths.  If that is correct, that would mean that roughly 3% of the population is comitting 75% of the murders.  Reduce the murder rate attributed to young blacks in half and it is still an outrageous statistic.\n\n2) An extremely high percentage ( 60+ % ) rate of unwed females giving birth into a system which will perpetuate their children into almost certain poverty and dependence on an ever increasingly resentful society.\n\n3) A significant portion of the black culture which appears to be incapable of fully integrating into a system which has proven time and time again that its rewards are directly proportional to the effort put into achieving within the system.\n\n4) An apparent broad based inability to accept that not all actions taken against blacks are because of skin color.  Sandra McKinney is yet another recent prime example.  Had a white person, congressional member or not, struck a whitehouse cop in today's climate, that person would be under the jail, not appearing on 200 media outlets for a week playing the race card.  \n\nI have to admit, it was refreshing that not a single member of the Congressional Black Caucus participated in her defense in any manner.\n\n5) Hold on to your hats for this one - I feel the single biggest reason blacks aren't as succuessful as everyone would want them to be is an inabilty to move forward despite the tragedy of slavery.  There absolutely has to come a time when that era in their history is remembered but not used as a crutch or devisive tool.  \n\nThere IS NOT another single society on the planet that has not taken slaves or conversely has not been taken as slaves as a result, primarily, of war.  It does not make either one right or wrong.  It makes them a fact of history experienced by every single race, society, culture, and country that ever existed prior to 1900.\n\nMy ancestory is Irish.  I will not get into the well documneted torturous behavior the people living on what is now Ireland have endured since seemingly the beginning of mankind.  \n\nDo I fault, the Scandinavians, the Romans, the British.  Each of these groups have taken slaves, ruthlessly murdered men, women and children and looted everything of value they could manage to carry and some they couldn't like the land itself.  These are all well documented facts.  But most importantly to me is that they are facts which did not happen to me, my parents, or grandparents just as no black person living today can claim.  \n\nI accept this is how people of different origins treated each other during that period in history.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Just actions in the context of world history.\n\nThere must be some point in time when blacks living in the US accept their history in a similar fashion or they will never fully allow themselves to intergrate into the society. \n\nPick your magic number.  Whether its 150 years, 500 years, or 5,000 years, only you can decide.  \n\nJust as a point of reference, between 1841 and 1845 alone, the most widely accepted numbers of Irish deaths at the hands of the british are between 700,000 to 800,000 or put another way as much as 30% of the total population in many regions of the country.  2 million others were forced to flee Ireland or die as well.  These deaths are part of a long history of turmoil in Ireland which ended less than a decade ago and had been going
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I don't believe so. But this one goes out to "MPA the racist bastard" up above me. Read his answer, then read mine.\n\nHe says he's a member of the KKK, and will kill any black man he sees.\n\nMPA the racist bastard:\nYou know what else isn't in the bible moron?\nHatred against another person, or race.\nThis includes that the KKK isnt in the bible.\n\n\nSo if you claim to know the bible, you should know that hatred is not there, and you shouldnt take part in it.\n\nOtherwise, I guess you truly are a hipocrat.
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Guilt.  They were the biggest slaveholders and the rationalizations that allowed them to deny their basic humanity came from what they read in the Bible.  Everything regarding the rules of slave ownership was laid right out for them in the Bible.  Unlike other Christians, they cherry picked from the Old Testament to justify their evil.  Generations later they can't let go of the beliefs that are so destructive.  In order to hide from the realization that their ancestors were awful people they need to cling to their rationalizations.\n\nEdit - Hey, why the thumbs down, it's a historical fact that slaveholders perverted the Bible to justify their "right" to keep slaves.  Read Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy for examples.
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IF THEY WOULD JUST WAKE UP AND REALIZE GOD SAID "THOU SHALL NOT JUDGE" and "ALL SINS ARE EQUAL IN THE EYES OF THE LORD", and that includes hating someone because they are different then you. Jesus died for our sins, and we are all sinners, no one is better or worse. Jesus loves us all gay, straight, black, white. When people wake up and realize you need to love the sinner and ignore the sin that's when things will change.
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i think you dont know what your talking about, and your critizing a race, because of a few people you have ran into who did it to you. your doing exactly what you seem to be trying to say your against, all im going to say to you is, you obviously dont get it and never will. and do some research maybe you'll learn something and see the diffrences in what your talking about! do you know anything about slavery? i dont think you are getting the big picture! i can suggest some books for you if you need it! and i think you do, you ever seen roots? try watching that! oh one more thing slavery is diffrent everywhere, just because they all have history of slavery doesnt mean it was the same, or they went through the same things! you need to learn something, before you try and preach to the world! have a great day, BYE!
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First of all there were black people in the bible *shock*. One of the disciples is even refered to as Niger, which in Greek, yes Greek, this is not a misspelling of "the N-word", it means- "The Black Man". So, blacks even followed at the footsteps of Jesus when he was living. In the New Testament era, slavery was not an all bad thing. Slaves were required by law to be released at age 33, they were paid for their work and recieved the lump-sum at their release, and after they were release they became Roman citizens. It actually was a pretty good deal, assuming your "owner" treated you well, and most did from all of the accounts we have. Most slaves once released used the skills they learned and the money they made to go open their own business. Oh, and most Roman slaves were white. Also, there is a Ethiopian eunich mentioned in the New Testament, most likely he was black, and he became a Christian as well. So, Christianity and black Christians far outdates the White to black slavery you are refering to.
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First, to answer your question...some people hate other people because they're taught to.  They're taught to hate by their parents, and their parents are taught to hate by their parents and so forth.... These beliefs have been handed down through generations.  \n\nThese beliefs were created in order to make people feel "better" about the institution of slavery.  If you can "demonize" someone, it's easier on your conscience to justify enslaving them and breaking up their families and killing them, etc...\n\nUnderstand, these beliefs were promulgated and reinforced from about 1619 (when slaves arrived here) until TODAY.  People of African descent were only LEGALLY allowed to participate in society fully after 1964 (voting rights act -AND, Congres STILL has to renew it every few years.  People of European descent or women don't have to endure this scrutiny).  \n\nIf you want to focus on a "color", look at Green.  Those with money have pitted those without money against people of color.  People of color have been the socio-political-economic scape goats of people with money.  Whenever people of limited education and limited means start to ask those in power why their lot in life sucks, those in power simply point to people of color and say, "well, it's because of illegal immigrants, or outsourcing, or foreign imports".  It's easier to make someone ELSE responsible for your misery than to take ownership of it yourself.\n\nSecond, there is only ONE RACE:  HUMAN.  According to the Human Genome Project, EVERY HUMAN on the planet is 99.9% IDENTICAL!  Yep!  The only thing that separates us...is US.  We draw political, social, economic, racial, gender, etc...lines.  "The only sin is separation."  Thinking, BELIEVING that we're really that different from each other.\nAnd to think, we make that stuff up!  We create that separation.  And for the sake of what?  \n\nAs Ben Franklin said, "we must all stand together, or surely we will hang separately."\n\nI wish you Peace.
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Okay, To let it be known, all things that happened in th past is brought up for a reason, to let us know what the deal was. If u havent noticed, history repeats itself in some way. Black slavery was the harshest outta all slaverys as most people have said. Yet, also, alot of other nationalities have been enslaved as well. Its just that ours were the worst. Yer bro-n-law is wrong by the way. U mite wanna educate him, and show him what the deal is, that it wasnt just blacks, it was everyone. Also, it really doent need to be brought up, unless its n a history class. \n\nHave yall seen the Dave Chappelle show, when he did the thing on Slavery Compensation. (i thought that was pretty funny) yet, if thats the case, shouldnt everyone else that was enslaved as well get paid too?? It wouldnt be fair. Ill honestly say that none of us (blacks) deserve to get paid. Paying us in money, for sumthin that has traumatized possibly the whole world is actually priceless. There isnt enuff money in the world to say, "oh its aight"\n\nFinal answers:\nWhy people complain?? Because it still hurts and its the most recent (sort of) Yer bro-n-law is wrong. Most races have went thru some type of slavey in some point of time.\n\nhope i helped
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This practice started in the Ku klux Klan of the 1920s, NOT the post-Civil War Klan.  Originally, the Klan hated Jews as much as Blacks in the 1920s and the Klan saw themselves as defenders of Christianity.  Therefore to show Jews that they were going to "pay" for the murder of Christ, they would burn a cross on their lawn.  Therefore a burning cross made reference to teaching Jews a lesson.  Today the Klan will still burn crosses even to intimidate blacks, even though it doesn't make any sense to use a cross to intimidate blacks.  No one will ever accuse the Klan of being deep thinkers.
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You know I looked up your questions and I see you are very prejudice.  Well, you talk about blacks this and illegal immigrants.  Well everyone is created equal.  What makes you think you are better than anyone else?  You should take all this racism and divert it to putting time into learning about God.  Because if you know something about blacks, you know that we love God.  We don't have any devil worshipers that are black, maybe one in a million.  You can say you're saved all you want, but if you have all this hate for people who aren't white, you are not saved.  You brung up all these negative things about Martin Luther King, who cares?  President Bush did drugs.  We don't care if he changed his name or if he copied some books.  He stood up for us blacks and if it wasn't for him, we would still be slaves.  Let's say this man rescued you from a burning building, would you care if he changed his name or did prison time?  You don't worry about something like that when someone is trying to help people.  God is the only person who can judge someone.  I love being black.  I grew up in a small town that is 95 percent whites.  I have never ran across anyone who treated me or my family any different.  I love everyone.  No one is better than me and I am not better than anyone else.  There will always be prejudice people out there and noone can change that.  I will pray for you.  Our cultures are different, our names are different, our clothes are different, our music is different, and our language is different.  Face it every race is different.  We are on this earth together and we're not going anywhere.  Everywhere you look you will see Indians, blacks, Asians and other races.  America has all different races and cultures.  Embrace them, don't hate them.  What good is hating other races going to do?  What good is talking about them going to do?  Why do whites try to keep blacks down?  Black people had to work hard for what we have.  We don't have rich ancestors and we don't own many buildings and businesses.  Remember, the same time your ancestors were building there homes and businesses, my ancestors were working in them.  Cleaning them, taking care of their children, cooking, and doing every other thing that was at their disposal.  So for that, I love Martin Luther King or Michael(whatever his name was, I don't really care).  Because of him, I am not forced to clean up after you or anyone else from the white race.  And please don't call me uneducated, because I am working on my second degree and I finished at the top of my class.  I don't know, maybe you are not prejudice but it sure seems like it.\nOf course you are going to say you aren't.  Let a black man run for president then all the racist folk would come out and boycott and you would probably be the first in line.  Let your child bring home a black date and see how you respond.  I will pray for you.
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Because they don't want to hear about it. They know nothing about life. Their whole history they had it in the privilege seat. The biggest problem their race face is having a bad tan. They blame others because they know nothing about racism and hate, they can't comprehend.  Here is what they say "Africans sold other Africans" "maybe you should look at the ones who sold them". Africans can be partly blame alone with the Jews for the "slave trade" but not for American slavery. Or they would say " that was long ago" "I never owned a slave" "you were never a slave". \n\nBecause they are white they believe they have Superior illegal status. Example it OK that the white race can oppress, kill, lynch, rob and rape the black race. But if the Blacks race do it to them it's unfair, unjustified, and just wrong. They say "those things are over with" "bad things happen to everyone and one point or another"\n\nOK well since white people believe this way, Let's someone rape their women, shoot them for fun, lynch them, burn their house down, and serve others, and oppress them. Then they say ok were done oppressing you, and you should thank us because we stop oppressing you. They will not believe the same way if it was them. Since whites like to stand up for their people the way they treated the black race, will they stand up for the black race if they treated the white race the same as they treated blacks? No, and as I said they think they have superior legal status, it ok for them to committ crimes in history but not ok for crimes committed against them at any time.\n\nHell they get mad when thier tax money support others, or at BET. If this generation of whites went through what blacks did the would die out faster than any race in history. \n\nSounds to me they still want Superior legal status!