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Sure, and even more bizarre are the black slave owners who attempted to join the Confederacy.

This happened near New Orleans, I believe. These idiots wanted to form their on fighting unit and actually began training. And Jeff Davis actually considered it for a while then thought the wiser.

Ric

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I’M TIRED OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH TOO! IT SEEMS ALL THE

ESTABLISHMENT CAN REMEMBER IS SLAVERY/CIVIL-RIGHTS-60′S

WHEN THERE ARE TONS OF POSITIVE OTHER EVENTS IN HIS-

TORY.

It has been pretty well established that over 65,000 free blacks joined the Confederate Army and Navy with 13,000 soldiers and 1,650 sailors actually being in combat against the North. Black historians Evrin Jordan and Edward Smith have published books on this. Even the National Park Service now acknowledges this suppressed history. Interestingly, it was accepted fact until about 1910—there were monuments to Black Confederate veterans built,there were Black Confederate Veterans groups,and Black Confederate veterans received pensions. Then starting about 1910 things began to change such as the word “soldier” being crossed out on their records and “teamster” written in. In spite of this there are several groups of Black Confederate Civil War re-enactors active in southern states.

I SHALL ALWAYS NEED BLACK HISTORY, WE SHALL REMEMBER THE PAST, SO IT WILL NOT REPEAT ITSELF!!!!

I would suggest all blacks to get a life. I’m so sick and tired of their whining. I’m white…my family came here from Holland. My Grandmother was raised in a dug out. An uncle and many relatives of mine, were raised in dug outs and coyote dens, near Coy, Oklahoma.
My family never owned slaves. Most of my family hadn’t even arrived, during slavery. And those who did, were too poor themselves to own slaves.
I’m so sick and tired, because of the color of my skin, being blamed for their lack of education, their 75% illigitimacy rate, their crime stats, and their poverty.
The white race has cow-towed to the blacks long enough. It’s time they take responsibility for themselves, stop blaming whites, for problems of their own choosing. No one helped my people. No government hand-outs for my folks, as there is today for the blacks, and all other races in America.
Today, there are more opportunities out in the world, for blacks, than there are for whites. The blacks are on the “preferential list.”
But, as long as the whites, keep on with their ridiculous feelings of guilt and sympathizing for something they had nothing to do with, the blacks will continue to take and take and take.
And lest we forget…had it not been for the blacks in Africa, rounding up, and selling blacks to the whites…the whites would never have owned slaves, to begin with.
And let’s also be reminded…had the blacks in Africa, and the whites in America not conspired to bring blacks to America, the blacks here today, would have never even been born, as the death rate for their ancestors, in Africa, was at a very young age.
And also….need I remind all those, who can’t think for themselves…America, 150 years ago, ended slavery, with the ultimate sacrifice of 600,000 white men during the Civil War….while slavery today in Africa is still running rampant. It was the white man, who freed the slaves!!! Get it?!?!?
So, I suggest all those blacks who are unhappy here in America…pack up and head for your beloved Africa…perhaps you’d be happier there.

Usually when I get comments like this I tend to ignore them simply because the commenter will not stick around to hear a response.

If you are willing to stick around, I’ll respond.

Hello Mare

You talk like a full fledge RACIST…The words you speak We’ve heard before..As a 2nd or 3rd generation Foreigner you ought to be ashamed of yourself..It is presumed that Foreigners, that come to the host Country have as sense of respect and admiration for its citizens,but it appears that you have brought your Racial hatred from Europe with yourself……Every word you speak is perhaps the most ignorant thing any racist one can say…

Not all people of color are winers and lazy, Just like all
Whites are not Racist …You seem to have this thing for stereotyping …If you don’t know it by now, it was the Black man and his Native American cousins that built this Country along with the White European, While your ancestors were away in Europe somewhere…

It can be supposed that the so called lazy slaves worked day and night without pay or respect to carry the burden of Labor, Why do you suppose they were brought here….

Not all The civil war soldiers were White..Native Americans and , over 200,000 thousand soldiers of color also served bravely and most , without pay or gratitude..in a War Started by White people for Economic gain

When it comes to responsibility it seems to me that the lack of responsibility belongs to those Europeans who came here and willfully decimated a Race of people and stole their land only for their money and Gold…I cannot speak for the black man but I know that the Prisons hold a disproportinate number of the Blacks in Prisons as a result of Racial hatred and
Profiling…

Lets get off this holy-er than though kick…It seems that those who have done the most harm to this North American continent and its’ Native people are the same bigots that seem to think that they are something special…You need to pick up some American History books and read the truth ..

…I’m sick and tired of hearing these Racist Remarks form Foreigners that don’t belong here nor fit in…Maby you ought to go back to Europe from where you came and this Country will have one less bigot to listen too…….Dickyg

Dickyg, you are like all the rest of the whiners and fabricators of fact. But the one statement of yours I will bother to comment on is you silly statement thet there is a disspropotinate number of blacks in prison due to profileing and racism. No they out number whites in prison becuse they commit more crimes. Period notheing to do with anything else if you don’t believe me come out of la la land and take a walk through any city in America and see what col;or the person that robs you is.

I should like to remark that the 75% black illegitimacy statistic is HIGHLY misleading: that skyrocketing ratio was caused by a massive decline in the birth rate of black married couples. The birth rate for black single mothers is now the lowest it’s been since the 50′s.

As the economic fortunes of the black community have risen since the Civil Rights era, black married couples have had fewer kids. Single parents are more likely to be poor.

Kind of strange our Dutch friend hasn’t said anything about THAT.

Both white and black and, well, basically all nationalities/races have been oppressed at one time or another, and heck, blacks still hold blacks in slavery in Africa today, and Arabs still hold whites (among others) in captivity in areas of the Middle East. Women from a large number of countries have been kidnapped and used for human trafficking purposes since early times and still are traded like cattle in some places even today…

Facts are, yes, some black people ARE whiners, and some are not. Some white people are whiners, some are not. I am sick and tired of hearing, tho, the blacks who are disinterested in the future of society and must continue to live in the past but then try to blame everyone else for their own lack of fortune. Same could be said to those good ol’ boys who blame the blacks for all of their problems. You know, get a life.

Whites don’t owe blacks anything. The same is true for whites / blacks don’t owe them jack. We’re all people, we’re all humans, we’ll all bleed if we prick our finger. Just certain people maintain that ignorance is bliss. Nuff said.

The only reason the birth rate for black women went down is because in some states they reformed welfare & they can’t get more money because they had another kid. See it like it is, & why don’t more black women get married, is it because there isn’t enough black men worth marring, or is the white women blamed for that. I heard white women take all the good black men, why do black men allow that.

Duane, I’m going to be nice to you on this one … it was an interesting read. I relish the opportunity to soak up new facts.

From a Biblical stand point of view…Slavery and the plight of the black man was prophesied in the bible, however for those who do understand the word of the Most High , one would understand. The info is explained thoroughly in this website.
for those who are interested in knowing the truth.

There will never a politician or any other man to correct the problem that we presently have with the black people today. The only solution is the creator (The most HIGH).

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2762010013788438774

Abraham Lincoln was of black blood…..he knew it and others knew it too.

KIM

i wish they taught that fact in our school system. i have written and called many people and cannot get a reply as to why it was not taught. however, my sons history teacher said “it is a sore topic for blacks” he should have also added it is sore for the whites that gave up everything to abolish slavery

Im so sick and tired of white folks making comments, and they don’t know what the hell they are talking about. They call blacks whiners, and some dumbasses even claim blacks have advantages?! That must be the most ignorant thing I’ve heard. First of all, forget slavery, the civil rights era was only 40 years ago. Blacks people, only 40 years ago, were being chased by dogs, sprayed with fire hoses, kept out of economic affluence, and given un-even oppurtunities; only 40 years ago. Now, the same people who lived during this era are still alive, and just as racist now as they were back then. Just because blacks obtained the right to vote and segregation ended everything is supposed to be all okie-dokie now? Only an idiot would think that. You can’t just poof and rise out of poverty. The ghetto is a continuous cycle. One is surrounded by lack of motivation, and lack of influence, therefore it affects them, causing them to have the same flawed mindset. And the so called advantages blacks have? Affirmative action? Companies/colleges only have to fulfill a certain quota of black people. After that quota is filled, you think they’re still gonna higher/enroll blacks? No. Besides that, what advantage is there to being profiled by cops on a daily basis? What about being followed around in a store? What about being seen as inferior and unintelligent simply because of your race? Is that an advantage?
And all these dumbass immigrants saying “Well my family moved here, and we didn’t have much, and now we are doing just fine, so stop complaining”. Let you all go through what blacks in America had to go through, and then get back at me with that bullshit. As far as I’m concerned, slavery ended in 1960, b/c blacks were still tortured and hung and killed without justice up until then. And don’t gimme that, “Well go back to Africa” bullshit because whites destroyed that too, and there is no question about that one.

P.S. I’m upper middle class black, I’m not poor, so I’m not giving some excuse as to why I failed in life. I’m just stating some facts that white people hate to hear.

First of all, before I say anything, please know that I am on nobody’s side. Just because I am white does not mean I am racist. I hear both sides of the story and I also hear both sides of the complaints (for blacks and whites). Also take note: I live in a predominantly black neighbourhood and most of my friends and husband are black. That being said:

To Donna: ‘white women take all the good black men’. Such BS. I’m fed up of hearing that excuse. Attraction to another person SHOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH COLOUR. If you’re bitter towards someone, leave it with that one person; don’t start pointing the finger for your own problems.

John: not only black people are followed around in stores. Every store owner is paranoid that a new client will steal their merchandise. It has NOTHING to do with the colour of your skin (I get followed around everywhere I go). I will not argue with you on the fact that civil rights only became applicable in the 60′s. Slavery was abolished but inequality definitely was not.

I’m also fed up of hearing racism or prejudice ON EITHER SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM. I hate hearing white people say ‘yeah, well blacks are lazy and unemployed and have a high crime rate so a lot of them are in jail’. People of colour (native, blacks, indian, etc) seem to be over- represented in jails because they take up a smaller number in the overall population.

I also hate hearing black people say ‘yeah well, you’re white, you don’t know what a hard life is.’ Come on, guys. Everybody has their own hardships to live through, regardless of ethnic background or colour. Please. Enough is enough.

Why don’t we all start living our lives and stop pointing the finger of accusation? Why is it so hard for someone to accept responsibility for their actions? YOU had a hard life because you were born into it, or you decided to take/ continue down that path. It’s up to YOU to change it. Not somebody else.

I just read the above statements to some I was horrified but not surprised.

I am in a very unique situation both socially and economically. My favorite subject in school was history so I became a part-time antique dealer. I have lived on both sides of the economic situation and global location. I said all that to say this. We as a blacks need to awaken our young people to the ideas of the 1960′s when there were goals no matter how poor or down trotten you felt. As white people should also be awaken to the idea that people are people no matter the ethnic background. We are all children of God from the first couple Adam and Eve (so what does that make us)? Brother and Sister of course. For those who are black and are still engaging in this behavior stop blaming “the white man” get out and do something about yourself and that doesn’t mean to each other. For the white stop with the whispered “black friends” like it is something tabo. Either you have A FRIEND or you don’t what has skin color got to do with it. We all need to act as the family members that we ARE.

Enough said

Annunaqui is all I can say here, well, let me quit lying, I have a lot to say, better yet a lot of resolution to bring forth. I found this string of postings for a book that I am writing and as I stopped through to read some of the ignorance and intelligence on this page, my heart is overjoyed.

The truth will conquer all lies and all lies are in the truth. The bible is a lie, the Black man is a lie, the White man is a lie, the other cultures in between are lies too. This society is a lie, money is a lie, life is a lie, and the truth is a lie. The only thing that we are guaranteed in this life is death, now that is the truth of our whole being. So on your way out make sure you set a positive momentum and leave a legacy for those after you. We only live for those coming after us.

Mentalities perceive what they will, and the people that host the mentality are so torn within and without self that all of this is vain idle talk. There are no resolutions on this page because the fingers pointing all over this loser back and forth thread, are caught up in emotions, not foundation. No one here has put a resolution, just problems bickering and nagging and whaaa whaaa whaaaa/you you you you/them them them them/I I I I I. The funny thing is that every last one of us in this life are slaves of something we have no control over. Life & Death.

Our minds here on this Earth are under attack, not our geographical location. Everyone is a slave, the only reason that it is not on front and center CNN is because they are enslaving you all the more. We are so petty fighting the race wars that mean nothingness. There is something out here greater than the devil and evil, there is something out there in our outer atmosphere that is greater than your petty little arguments about slavery and freedom. No one on this Earth is free. The solution to all of this madness and mayhem is to be Self-Educated and Edutained opposed to entertained which is what you all are doing to stay afloat.
No one has to like anyone, but all must respect all.

Cultures clash because they choose to and until the divide becomes invisible and people cross the lines we will always be separated, and so be it as long as you respect the truth, there is no truth, it is what you make it. We have power immeasurable beyond this little bitty world we live in, if we stay stuck on fighting age old battles against age old traps, that is where we will remain stuck inside. Self-Educate yourself. Educate others. Love is nothing without everything else. EVIL spells LIVE and LIVE spells out EVIL. We all have been dupped here. We have no control whether we live or we die, in between we get caught up in ignorance & pride, wisdom & humility. Anyone that does not respect this order of things is dead already and those that are already dead are in the truth of this life.

Everyone here knows they do not care about these petty battles, nor have the power to change a thing besides themselves. It all begins with self, it all ends this way just the same. We merely want to co-exist within the glory that they are treated with respect, and able to live life until death do us part. If you could not control a man and a woman from being sexually attracted to one another long enough to produce you, you swimming past 400 million other potential entities, making it in for a 40 day 40 night trial and coming out only to die, what makes you to think you can control the mentality of another. You futile beings are all at the whim of other beings that are at the whim of other beings. Until you all come to grips with the Source of all, then you will remain in the sickening rut you are stuck in. You are the owner of a whole universe and you talk about continental strife and geography? For what? You are not going to do anything about it! Anyone who wants another to travel to another country, purchase the passport and the ticket, and kindly send them somewhere with your authoritative self.

None of you can kill a flea on here with your mind alone so what are you communicating in these monotones of futility for? Speak out what you want, but do something about everything. Anyone on here that spoke out anything in a negative effect will receive that a million times over. Your life and death are nothing you can control so do both with humility and grace. There is your New Years RESOLUTION!

it’s God’s creations to have different colors here on earth, we should appreciate it. Combining two different colors can create unique images. Each color represents a story. We should trasure it and learn from it. Share our color and we’ll make this world a peaceful place to live in!!!

tezs

I think the root problem is simply the raw materials you’re born with. There are many other issues too, but this one is largely ignored (and perhaps rightfully so).

Ask yourself this. How many poor people (of any color) who are born into poverty rise out of it? I can’t find the statistics but I suspect it’s not a very impressive number and little different regardless of race.

The main difference is that a larger percentage of black people are born in poverty to begin with. But what is the difference between the poor in a location where most poor are black and a location where most poor are white? Very little.

Now look at the percentage of black people in American professional sports. That is one area where black people excel far more than other races. Surely there must be a genetic factor at play there. Might there also be a genetic factor keeping the average black person from being competitive in today’s society? Does anyone really believe that any old person can study real hard and be the next Einstein? Surely Einstein had a genetic predisposition towards extreme intelligence.

My only point here is that you dismiss genetic factors at your own peril. Of course, what can be done about unequal genetic heritages? Nothing. That’s the hilarious thing. For all the effort people put into changing the plight of the poor, I don’t think anything can be done about it (short of creating so much wealth via technology that we can simply distribute it to everyone, but we’re a long way from that).

I love you all no matter what!!!!!!!! Say hello to your neighbors, converse in supermarkets and malls life can be a beautiful journey, but evil cant be resisted once injected. History is exactly what it is His-Story. I cant talk to God. I cant verify how slavery really started. So it is all truth in lies and you will only learn the truth in a lie, and not what is suspected to be the truth and what is suspected to be a lie. No one knows how the long halls were lit in pyramids and ancient egyptian buildings. So education education education please!!!!!

John, I am white and I do not hate hearing what you said. I think you are right on the money. The treatment of black poeple by white people after slavery ended is deplorable and not much better than being enslaved. Anyone who doubts this should do a little more research! Mare, for the most part the north did not fight to end slavery, they fought to keep the union together. Keep in mind that in those days freedom for the blacks was not the same as equality for the blacks. Many people in the north were racist and treated blacks poorly. This is a Lincoln quote from prior to the Civil War:
I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and the black races. There is a physical difference between the two, which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position. — Abraham Lincoln and he was one of those in favor of emancipation! Think about that!

I had spent a great deal of time on history over the years. And one day I got this thing and put in Slavery. Well I was raised poor in Detroit and heard how I had it better because I was white. I did not know that having no food was better for whites. Or having your gas and lights turned off was better for whites. Or your father taking off was better for whites. That is because it is not. My education was the same as every other color in my schools. In the 6th grade I went to a local food place and begged for a job to feed my brothers and sister. I worked every day after school to bring home food. At 15 I added watching 5 more kids 9 hours a day for 25 a week for the summer. I never saw high school. The state of MI and the county I lived in saw if to stop my education when I was 15. Not because I had done anything but because they thought I would run. I had come out of the 7th grade all A’s to stop my education.
I worked is what I did. Some food and drink places spent the 70′s and 80′s making 2 and less a hour while raising 3 kids. I had good old fashion C-sections. I worked till I went in hospital. Had the kid and was out the second morning and back to my job that night. I got no health benefits and no paid time off and most the time I worked 2 jobs and all the overtime I could get at reg pay and was glad to get it. In my 50′s I can still work circles around younger than myself. And I got no use for unions as for years it seems they only are there for those who can’t or won’t do their jobs. Because it is clear to those who can and do do their jobs they don’t need a union Affirmative action. Another joke that has out lived it’s usefulness to become part of the problem.
The plain fact is under this action no one tries and we get few of the best at anything.
What could you hope to have from a system that will fail above average in testing and take far lower grades and reward them?
You think it did these car companies any good to have to hire people that they had to take one person jobs and turn them in to 2 or more people jobs?
Maybe you should take a look at the people who had to be taken over high scores in testing to Skilled trades. There is nothing more wrong than a person holding a job that can’t do it or won’t do it. And when you back them into a corner you are either hit with being sexist or racist. So nothing is done about it but hire more to cover those who can’t or won’t and drive the cost up on everyone to cover it.
People who do their job hate those who get paid the same and do not. And all those who will not and do not make it harder for those coming in behind.
The fact is some know all they have to do is show up and they have to be hired first no matter what they test. This gives them no reason to try and those who are failed who tested higher are pissed. And we don’t get the best hell our laws don’t even allow for the best anymore and we are far from fair and equal.And it is not just black and white but male and female and now they have every incoming race.
I know a place here that for the most part would only hire from those coming into the US because the government paid part of their wages.
East Indians were trained by the people who had jobs and then they were laid off. This because they worked for far less.
Guess what? it is the people born in the USA now taking a beating and their is no one stopping it.
I came to this page after reading many on the history of slaverly. what I learned is there is more than enough shame to go around. The proof that there are still slaves is that the whole truth is not taught in schools even now. Because then one would have to admit that it has never been a white only crime. and one less thing to fight about.
I believe like with everything in life you could find people in other areas who would say what happened in the south after the war had not been the case elsewhere.
I was once asked about backing the death penllty. I said no. That was till my daughter was killed.
You go on hurting others and you will cause them to wish to pass it on. You back someone doing wrong than you are agreeing with what they are doing
You hold up lies and liars as facts for any reason you become part of the problem they are.
I have yet to hear someone got a place knowing they had not earned it and past it on to one who had.
We must demand the best a person can do before we will get it. Those who can should be . And those who can’t should be doing something else where we can do our best.
Then you can stop paying a union to cover those who won’t or can’t and make them go out and get real work.

Advantages for whites? Not for me. My father had a decent paying job at a factory but he had illness after illness and always missed worked. When we got ahead he would get sick again and we were back to barely keeping the lights form being turned off. When I graduated high school my parents had no money for college. He made a decent wage but the hal dozen hospitalizations he had from the time I was 10 til 18 left us broke but paying the bills. I went to a “historically black” university. I had half my education paid for by playing baseball and the other half paid for by working two jobs and other part time things like umpiring baseball every summer. It’s hard work being a student athlete. It’s a full time job in itself. By the way I was welcomed by my peers at the college I went to…student athletes as well as engineering students, I also had several girlfriends, all who respected me for my abilities and what I had inside and not the color of my skin. I also received four years of snide remarks, dirty looks, and being ignored by other fellow students.

8 years ago my wife left me with our children. She quit her job a week before a separation hearing and the result was her havign custody, 25% of my salary in support, no marital debt, 50% of the gross of my retirement, and me paying for her car. I was ignorant and let her keep the debit card to our account prior to that to pay the household bills. 6 weeks after the hearing she packs up or sells everything, leaves the house empty, and bills haven’t been paid for a month and a half and emptied the account. My mortgage is now two months late and all utilities are days from shut off, no food in the house, and I don’t have a dime. It takes me three months to get caught up to the bills beiNg on time (25% TO SUPPORT, 10% INSURANCE,) After cashing out the 401k, payng taxes and penalty, and paying the ex 50%, there was nothing left for me. I then get laid off from work. There is no reduction in child support. I now get a job making half what I was and no reduction in support. After insurance/medical/support/wife’s car, I am left with about $600/month to live on. I let my car insurance lapse and have an accident…..still no hope for this middle class white guy because I make $40,000/yr. Never mind taxes, support etc take $33,000 of it. By the way my ex started working again a week after leaving. Between all of my support and payments and her salary she had $60,000 disposable income (after taxes) and I had $7,000. I lived in poverty for three years. No help for me because I was White and middle class.
I then spent two years in Saudi Arabia making an incredible salary and payig no taxes. I paid off all of my debts. I just changed jobs but I have been four months without a paycheck. I am now broke and have been receiving food stamps for three weeks now. I am not to proud or feel guilty..I paid taxes for years…..where were these 7 years ago when I ate ramen noodles for days on end and taped broken glasses together because I was broke while my ex bought new cars???

I am curious.Why are all these so called’WHITE’ people on this blog???????????????
Especially, since they appear to hate black people!!!

People of color there is no hope, it took hundreds of years to get here and it will take thousands to get out. Educate your loved ones and move on.

There are no simple answers to the problems addressed here. But I do feel that the start to fixing things begin and ends with you. We are our own worst enemies… we can choose to be prisoners to our own thoughts and perceptions or we can live every day being the best we can be. If your not part of the solution your part of the problem. That’s just the way it is no matter what color you are. Look inside yourselves where we are all the same color.

This is a sad state of affairs. Let me be the first to say both whites and blacks you were lied to. Blacks were told that their history was nothing more than slavery and poor white were told that they were better than the slaves because the “wealthy planters” saw it fit not to enslave them past you indentured “term.” In a request for sanity I ask that all people begin to learn their true history. For over 150 years we have been living in a lie, which we are afraid to step out of and find common ground.
White folks wake up, many of you were poor. To the rich all poor is cheap labor. It is estimated that less than 20% of the white population of the south owned slaves. The other 80%, like the slave, were denied the right to vote, you had no education, and you were unpaid tenant farmers on large plantations. Many of you were being fed and clothed by the owners too. In fact your only benefit to the Planter society was that you were the “guard dogs” protecting them from slave upraising. Since Slavery came to the US 200 years after the rest of the world, the wealthy learned not to leave poor whites and blacks bonding for too long (Please see Bacon’s rebel). They needed your help and enlisted you to protect their interest under the guise of “whiteness and Freedom,” while they wrote journals about you ignorance and less than human state. The term “cracker” didn’t come from blacks, but your wealthy white brothers. It amazes me to this day that you will still defend the wealthy and raise a Confederate flag with pride though it stood for your oppression and subjugation as much as for black. Believe me if the wealthy Planters could pick you up and send you back to Ireland, Germany or England they would. How do you think many of you got to America in the first place—the wealthy in those countries didn’t want you around.
Black Folks your ancestors were not all uneducated slaves cowering at the feet of “Massa.” Many slaves managed to teach themselves to read and write and had marketable skills. Yes there is no denying the mistreatment in slavery but most of it was done by the misguided poor white overs seers out of jealousy—oops yes I said it. Slaves were trained in skilled trades. The biggest scare for the poor white was can we compete with them when they are freed. Where many whites had no skill beyond faming, herding, and slave punishing the slaves were being trained as blacksmiths, masons, cooks, milliners, and carpenters to save Planters money. These skills gave them a leg up on the southern poor. Know that the slave and owners knew the value of the slave on the plantation. Many a poor white patroller or overseer was physically punished or imprisoned by Planters for over abusing slaves because such abuse could ruin productivity on a plantation. Slaves often “slowed down” in protest to abuses causing white owners to lose money.
I could go on, but it’s time for you all to learn the truth yourselves. Pick up a book. Racism and all the evils that come from it were born from the original sin of classism. I ask that all black and white whiners stop pouting about who is the biggest victims (just as many whites are on “government handouts” and free lunch as there are minorities) and work together towards the cause of maintaining a healthy middle class and an economy that is sustainable to all. The only thing either group owes each other is an apology for believing the lie for so long. If you are angry after reading this good, that is what it is meant by “truth hurts.” Let it sting so it can heal and stop picking at it…

Am very sick n tierd of hearing black poepla was slaves like everyone knows that but when i really think about it our children should know what black poeple had been through being whiped n being hanged alot happen n it makes me cry all the time everytime when i hear black slavery but also glad that black slavary stoped cause i will go crazy if black slavery still was goin on till this day!

Wow. You have no hope.

History shows you to be right in nearly everything you say. What I never see discussed is the fact that black Africans were first enslaved by other black Africans, who kidnapped them, bound them, and marched them to the coast to sell the victims to the white traders for shipment to the Southern plantations. People can’t pick and choose which villains to include in history. This reminds me of the other great lie of the 20th century, namely that the Fascists were ‘right-wing’ while Communists were ‘left-wing’ and somehow more virtuous. The truth of this matter is that both Mussolini and Hitler were socialists, as anyone can discover by simply reading what they wrote as their goals, and examining the economic policies they pursued. The only difference between Stalin and Hitler was that Stalin exterminated millions based on their class or their political opinions, whereas Hitler exterminated (fewer) millions based on their race or their political opinions. There were no real differences between the two monsters. They were both psychopathic socialist mass murderers. Mussolini, on the other hand, didn’t go in for extermination of any kind.

i agree, my best friend is black and it really pissed me off when people in our class started picking on her and trying to treat her like dirt our teacher din’t do anything to stop them, and it carried on, she was gettin bullied and none of the teachers would listen to me eventualy it stopped, but she’s scared.

I am an African American woman who is majoring in history and you have summed it up beautifully. Thank you.

only one thing not the same inside! One may be good the other evil. Colour has no menging!

he world don’t have 50 yours. So i guess that’s not ganna happen!

To prove how wrong black people are in their prejudice!!! And they are Highly prejudice, more then any other race! You ever been around an all black inviroment? You’ll know what I’m, talking about!

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I can’t teach everything; my hope is that my comments will encourage people to learn more history. African did sell African. But understand Europeans sold Europeans in slavery, Asian sold Asian, Indian sold Indian and so on and so on. Think how did the Irish get to the West Indies and the Americas? England defeated them in war and gave their lands to the Scotts (also called Scott-Irish, Scotts in Ireland). Just because a people share a continent and have the same skin color doesn’t mean they love each other. During the height of the slave trade there were several tribal wars in Africa. The losers of those wars make up the over 80% of slaves. Enslaving your enemies is common among every race of people, not just African. That is why modern Africans don’t really relate to slavery much. We, to them, lost our battles. Another way that Africans were sold is if they were debtors, criminals or witches- who did this also English. Let’s face it the rich don’t like the poor and weird cluttering their view. Lastly, Africans were stolen and so were poor whites. Many were said to have been “whisked” away and sent to the West Indies to be slaves. The African didn’t see themselves as doing anything wrong because everyone else was doing it. The thing I want people to understand is that all this is race based hate is foolish. The first Africans in this country were not slaves, and about 3000 of them were no different than the rest of the indentures until about 1640. They gained there freedom, owned land and married white people (No race mixing is not new). There was a time when our fore-fathers didn’t see color. Blacks, poor Whites, and Indians bonded together as slave and their enemy was the rich, so the rich divided the races to keep from losing their good thing. They wanted to keep the whites—who had dealt with them in Europe away from the blacks and Indians because they organized revolutions. They wanted to keep the Indian away from the African and poor white because they showed them how to navigate the land and escape, and they wanted to keep the African from the Indian and the white because the made white babies and white babies can bland into society, black babies stand out and can never blend in. In the end, it’s all a game that has us still at each other’s throats while the rich get richer, and the poor bail them out. In the end, if you are angry after reading this good that is what it is meant by “truth hurts.” Let it sting so it can heal and stop picking at it…

It is believing in and practicing the slave master’s religion that continues to suppress the potential for an evolutionary process for black people. Ask Barack Obama!

I don’t know if he would be a good person to ask since he does not claim any specific religion.

I am European (Hungarian to be precise). History, all history people have been taught has been nothing more than lies or manipulation of the truth. The powers behind the curtain use these lies to manipulate the ignorant masses and control everything from stock markets to how we, the “irrelevant folks”, eat, think and go about our business. I think it sad when I see folks who don’t know their own people’s history, and this seems to be especially true in America… not just among blacks but whites as well. It amazes me to see how much America has been “dumbed down” over the years. I would say that slavery has never truly gone away, it only re-invented itself.

Contrary to what people think, most slaves did NOT get treated badly. I’m not just talking about the more recent black slaves in the New World, but slaves through out history in general. Slaves were expensive to keep. The owner had to feed them, clothe them, house them, get them doctors & medicine when they got sick, etc… so as you see… it cost the masters quite a bit of money to maintain slaves. Whipping and beating them would have been as stupid as someone now-a-days getting out and beating his/her car with a baseball bat, because it wouldn’t start. Slave ownership didn’t go away because man has suddenly reached some higher level of consciousness. Slave ownership went away only once the technology got good enough to replace the many slaves with one simple machine, which was cheaper to keep and operate. But… what to do with all of these free slaves? (Again… I’m not only referring to the blacks who were slaves in the New World). Well, the bankers came up with the perfect solution. Create an entire nation of what I call “happy slaves”. It was quite genius… really! It didn’t matter what the color of these new slaves’ skin was, the bankers were going to get filthy rich!

It used to be that the “American Dream” was the pursuit of happiness. That happiness meant what ever it meant to each individual. That, how ever, wasn’t good enough for the bankers. People’s “happiness” wasn’t going to line their pockets, so they had to come up with something better. But what? It had to be something that would put people back under their control. Then it hit them… HOUSING! From that point on “home ownership” was touted to be the American Dream. Of course, most people didn’t have the money to outright buy a house, so they had to go and beg the bankers for a loan, which they had to pay back with heavy interest. By the time the average home owner paid off his/her loan (if he or she ever did), it was 3 times more than the original loan. This ensured that the “happy slave” kept his job, did what he was told and paid back the money he was given for his hard work.

Most Americans work at least a 40 hour week. In most cases, if there are 2 adults in the household, they both have to work. This doesn’t leave much time for the average American to raise and maintain a family. These workers bust their behind to make “money”, and then give it right back to the new slave owners… the bankers. The American happy slave now has to pay for his own food, water, health care, housing, transportation, education, entertainment, etc… Most Americans are even giving the money back to the bankers faster than they are earning it. What has this type of lifestyle done to the American family? There’s more stress on the happy slave then ever before in history, there fore family structures have taken a hit and divorce is now the norm. Children are growing up in multiple homes and are taught that self esteem is more important than knowledge and achievement. The best Americans can hope for is that their children go to school and become an “indoor slave” (lawyer, doctor, etc), as opposed to those outdoor slaves who work in manual labor or minimum wage jobs.

I guess my point to this whole thing is that slavery has NEVER been about skin color. It’s always been about financial status and blood lines. If, through out history, you were one of the fortunate people to be born into a monarch family, for the most part life was alright. The monarch’s had their own sick problems to deal with, but that’s a topic for another debate. How ever, I’d say that over 90% of all of man kind wasn’t that lucky and there fore had to endure the life of slavery in one form or another. The next great down-sizing of mankind will come once robot technology is good enough to replace manual labor. It’s coming, and only a matter of time. Those of us who’re not fortunate enough to be a blue blood are indeed living on borrowed times.

Right On, Brother Trust.  I couldn’t have said that any better.  We must learn the truth of our past so that we can begin the healing that would allow us to strive to produce a better world that we ALL can be proud of.  There are people out there just waiting for us to weaken ourselves so that they can invade and ENSLAVE us all as AMERICANS.  Peace.  Shmuel

hey! everthing is not all black and white. here I read a lot of truth and ignorants here so befor you make a not so bright comment, study history on a non bais level. Rudolphf R. Windsor book. is a good start [valley of the dry bones] . history is interesting we can’t do anything about the past but the future is attainable prejudice takes a back seat to humanity, if your life depened on someone to save you would you ask what their race is and would you care?  the only race that matters is the human race, the devil have you fretting over black, white, yellow, and brown. their is good bad in all races. theirs fine women and ugly good looking men and ugly men in all races.  its ok to support your race or familly. but dont turn it into a sickness like the kkk. killing innocent people. because when you die you must face the internal being. non beleivers will see Godbless you all.  JT             

You are a genius. can you please jump in my brain. normally when you read comments under articles you are confronted by the complete crudeness of character by many. you are a gem in an internet community of loudmouths, trolls, and angry naysayers. thank you, you might not know this, but your words like yours bring hope to an ever-discouraging world. I hate sounding so cheesy, but honestly you really struck a chord.

In the year 2000 I independently published ‘For God, Coun try and the Confederacy,’ a book about a frre, wealthy, educated black family of New Orleans. I wrote to show that black people were ore than just slaves.  Although book clubs and civil war organization welcomed the book for its historical truth and significant, the black community shunned me.  Wearing the badge of ‘slavery’ weighs more importantly than the truth. Knowing we were more than ‘just slaves’ psychologically will do more to help our children.What more the emphasis is put on education, which pretty much guarentees you not becoming a slave to today’s society.  My book is stll available on Amazon.