Racism....SLAVERY THEORY?
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Of course it did; it is evident
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I disagree.  Slavery was over 100 years ago, and US wasn't the only country to do it.  Granted civil rights didn't occur until the '60s, but now in US there is "affirmative action" which is basically reverse discrimination.  Any minority in the US has more opportunities at their fingertips than any white person will ever have.  The minorities merely have to reach out for it, but spend way too much time blaming "whitey" because it's easier.  Anything worth having takes time and hard work.  If a minority applied for the same job as i did, that person would get it over me, even if I had more experience, so I don't feel that the legacy is on Western man(which is another way to say white people)....I should not be held responsible for something ancestors did(especially since I'm Irish/NativeAmerican/German and mine didn't own slaves)  I feel that if you were born in this country you are American...end of story, Celebrate our sameness and quit shouting about our differences.
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That's a tough one, since most people would never admit their racist feelings because they are 1) ashamed of feeling racist and 2) it is bad for their 'image.' \n\nYou have the David Dukes and the Farakhans, who have figured out how to make their racist feelings work for their benefit, or their 'desired image.' \n\nBut really the WORST and most damaging racism can be found in the greed based, capitalist world system, better known as BIG BUSINESS. As long as there is inequality in the world, with the 'haves' having the biggest slice of the pie, there WILL be racism. \n\nWe (whites and blacks and reds and browns and..) were tricked into believing that slavery was abolished, when actually the 'package' was just rearranged so that the people would be more productive for the 'bottom line' of Big Business, which was already in charge of things at the end of the Civil War! They created a 'minimum wage' and then charged rent to their workers, giving the workers an illusory sense of freedom. Freedom my @!#!! \n\nBut now we don't have to be black in order to be slaves of Big Business (white man)! We only have to be POOR. There is no freedom for those who are in chains and slavery to POVERTY. Big Business, which is one and the same with the current American Government, is the made over White Slave Owner, and all he'll EVER care about is HIS bottom line.
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Umm, how about a Black History book?  Try "From Slavery to Freedom" by John Hope Franklin.  Another great historian who covered the topic is John Henrik Clarke.\n\nVery quickly, there was not very much disparity in the way non-free persons were treated.  I don't know why you think there was.  The european slave trade was the most brutal form of slavery the world has ever seen.  And it didn't matter whether it was the Spanish, British, French, etc.  The U.S. Constitution which is a FEDERAL document stated that slaves were 3/5ths human.  Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court (fed law) stated that the Black man/woman had NO rights that whites were bound to respect.\n\nAgain do your own reading and get your own understanding.
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I think racism shows a lack of intelligence...and, since we will always have a range of intelligence in humans...I think we will always have racism. It's a shame.....
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At the time it may have been efficient for white people, but I certainly don't think it was efficient for the black community. Slavery is NEVER any good for the people who are being in slaved.
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I haven't seen the writings your referring to, but it's possible they're prejiduced, but not racist. Prejiduce is logical, racism is terrible.
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Below is an article from Race Traitor (http://racetraitor.org). I thought that being a sociology major that it might interest you.\n\n\nNow that White Studies has become an academic industry, with its own dissertation mill, conference, publications, and no doubt soon its junior faculty, it is time for the abolitionists to declare where they stand in relation to it. Abolitionism is first of all a political project: the abolitionists study whiteness in order to abolish it. \n \nWhiteness is not a culture... Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. \n\nVarious commentators have stated that their aim is to identify and preserve a positive white identity. Abolitionists deny the existence of a positive white identity. We at Race Traitor, the journal with which I am associated, have asked some of those who think whiteness contains positive elements to indicate what they are. We are still waiting for an answer. Until we get one, we will take our stand with David Roediger, who has insisted that whiteness is not merely oppressive and false, it is nothing but oppressive and false. As James Baldwin said, "So long as you think you are white, there is no hope for you."\n\nWhiteness is not a culture. There is Irish culture and Italian culture and American culture - the latter, as Albert Murray pointed out, a mixture of the Yankee, the Indian, and the Negro (with a pinch of ethnic salt); there is youth culture and drug culture and queer culture; but there is no such thing as white culture. Whiteness has nothing to do with culture and everything to do with social position. It is nothing but a reflection of privilege, and exists for no reason other than to defend it. Without the privileges attached to it, the white race would not exist, and the white skin would have no more social significance than big feet.\n\nBefore the advocates of positive whiteness remind us of the oppression of the white poor, let me say that we have never denied it. The United States, like every capitalist society, is composed of masters and slaves. The problem is that many of the slaves think they are part of the master class because they partake of the privileges of the white skin. We cannot say it too often: whiteness does not exempt people from exploitation, it reconciles them to it. It is for those who have nothing else. \n \nEither America is a very democratic country, where cab drivers beat up city councilmen with impunity, or the privileges of whiteness reach far down into the ranks of the laboring class. \n\nHowever exploited the poor whites of this country, they are not direct victims of racial oppression, and "white trash" is not a term of racial degradation analogous to the various epithets commonly applied to black people; in fact, the poor whites are the objects of race privilege, which ties them to their masters more firmly than did the arrows of Vulcan bind Prometheus to the rock. Not long ago there was an incident in Boston in which a well-dressed black man hailed a taxi and directed the driver to take him to Roxbury, a black district. The white cab driver refused, and when the man insisted she take him or call someone who would, as the law provided, she called her boyfriend, also a cabdriver, on the car radio, who showed up, dragged the black man out of the cab and called him a "nigger." The black man turned out to be a city councilman. The case was unusual only in that it made the papers. Either America is a very democratic country, where cab drivers beat up city councilmen with impunity, or the privileges of whiteness reach far down into the ranks of the laboring class.\n\nWe are anti-white, but we are not in general against the people who are called white. Those for whom the distinction is too subtle are advised to read the speeches of Malcolm X. No one ever spoke more harshly and crit
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The idea that slavery was bad was invented by americans.  Up until that point, the opinion of the entire world was that slavery was OK because blacks were not human.  At the time, the idea that blacks were human and should not be slaves was extremely radical.  Most people saw it as a lowering of the dignity of the human race.  You weren't recognizing that slaves were on the same level, nor even elevating them to that level.  You were degrading humanity to the level of the slave.  That idea was violently resisted and took generations to become fully accepted.\n\nBut the idea started here.
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U.S. "legalized" slavery may have ended in 1861, but please do not let us fool ourselves -- slavery, in many forms, still exists today . . . and I'm not talking "slave to my job" kind either.    :-(
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No, others are racist but for different reasons.  White history month?  What are we learning for the entire year?  Oh yeah, white history.  Funds like the United Negro one are for the descendants of slaves (face it, that's how most if not all  Africans got here) who were released with nothing.  They had to survive in a world where there were relatively few employers (they wouldn't hire blacks).
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I hate to say it but, I agree. I think that we all need to acknowledge that 1) the past happened; 2) it was worst than horrible thing that you could imagine; 3) it made white people think that blacks were not human; 4) it created laws to exclude blacks; and 5) it affects the way blacks see themselves today and how whites view blacks.\n\nI wish that we could all take a person and examine that individual for who he/she is and not for what race they happened to be born in. \n\nBy the way, don't use the argument that whited help end slavery. While they may have been so, in the grand scheme of things, it's like putting a Kleenex over a gunshot wound. ALL blacks don't hate ALL white and ALL whites don't hate ALL blacks, but it sure does seem that way sometimes. I think that too much bitterness exist in blacks and white people just don't understand how far and how deep the hurt goes. I was raised by parents who could drink from the white water fountain or couldn't sit down to eat lunch with their white friends and couldn't go to the white beach. Those experiences and worse have shaped the generations. \n\nAs a psychologist, a believe in moving forward. I believe that in order to be ones best self, one must not get caught up in the past hurts and live life as a victim. One has to free themselves from the past. You should not feel responsible for slavery but should only be responsible for your own actions. Nor should I treat you any differently because of the actions of some people who happen to be white. I don't know what it would take for society as a whole to move towards this concept.
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I hate it when a black person assumes that because I am white I support slavery or ever had an ancestor who had slaves. They seem to forget it was blacks who sold them into slavery and white's who fought to free them. Not all whites supported slavery!  I think it was horrible but I am also sick of them thinking they are entitled because of it.  What about the jews? They were wronged too, what do they get?  The Indians we stole this land from were wronged, what do they get?  I think it is unfair that they can have all black beauty pageants, all black colleges, all black scholarships, we cannot have an all white anything or we would be in big trouble for discrimination, not that I would want to anyway, but how fair is that????!!!!!  I think everyone should have the same rights and I am sick of hearing how they think they have less rights when they actually have MORE.  They will get a job even if less qualified and I have seen first hand how they can sit around and do nothing and cannot be fired, by law, because company would be in trouble if they fired them.  I like black people, but it angers me to no living end that they get away with stuff like that!  I have black friends and have heard them make remarks about getting retribution one day.  That is a real pisser offer for me!!!!  I have done nothing wrong to them!
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Slaves are one of the reasons I'm thinking.
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Racism isn't just about one race,it's an all encompassing definition, reverse racism is bullshit, racism is color blind, every race is guilty of racism.This doesn;t mean everyone is a racist, it simply means every race has racists within it, each race is equally guilty of racism. There's going to be those whiners who will say "Look how bad we treated the slavves" well guess what, unless we're 200 years old "we" didn't have a damn thing to do with how slaves were treated. The past is there for one thing and 1 thing only, to learn from, learn what to do, and what not to do. It's not there to drudge up every time you need to make yourself feel better about your total lack of understanding of another race.
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It is reverse racism, and I do not agree with it. Some white people feel guilty over their ancestors' role in the history and let black people get away with it, and some black people fully exploit the situation. I think no one should use any derogatory terms towards another person. We should all try to let go of the past and move on towards a better tomorrow.
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OSome do but I did not have that problem. Yes many suffer from the effects of slavery. I came across this trying to figure out some of the conditions that blacks are in today. When I traced it's origins it does go back to slavery and segregation. Here's what Dr. king had to say\n\n"Whenever this issue [compensatory treatment] is raised, some of our friends(Whites) recoil in horror. The Negro should be granted equality, they agree, but should ask for nothing more. On the surface, this appears reasonable, but is not realistic. For it is obvious that if a man enters the starting line of a race three hundred years after another man, the second would have to perform some incredible feat in order to catch up." \n"A society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for him, to equip him to compete on a just and equal basis." \n"... for 15 centuries the Negro was enslaved and robbed of any wages — potential accrued wealth which would have been the legacy of his descendants."