How can any black person be proud to be an American?

Question

Bearing in mind the history of your presence in the USA, how do you reconcile patriotism, love for one's country with people who where prepared to kill millions of your ancestors and enslavement? Enslavement which I might add has severe consequences even today.

misticle03, It;s individuals like you that made me pose this question. Jews don't scream holocaust 24/7? Do you understand about the holocaust? It's illegal to deny the 'holocaust' and Jews were paid reparation for that henious act and continue to be compensated for it today. Get some education.

Another Pers...
I despair of people like you. Driftking's opening statement offers ample description of your kind. Did you know that it was possible to maintain the slave trade in America and the W.Indies because of slave supervisors that took the extra scrap.

Answer 1

Exactly who sold the slaves to the yanks?? (yep)

In what country in the world are non pale faces better off?

I respect your people as a people and it makes me sick when I see a Bling loaded scum rapper degrade all!

Answer 2

Why don't people realize slaves were enslaved by other black people.
Who then sold them to anyone buying.

White people didn't go over there, wave a bucket of chicken, and cuff them after they tricked them into getting on their ship.

Don't get it twisted.

If you aren't proud of this country, no matter what color, you are a parasite.
Go see how hard other countries have it.

Better yet. Go act how you do here somewhere else, and see how quick you get put in place.

The only thing I dislike about this country is how easy we are on wastes of life.
And people who think they deserve something because their ancestors were slaves. I didn't benefit from slavery, nor were you hurt by it, so quit complaining about something that happened to a generation that is already dead and gone.

Answer 3

Because America today isn't the same as America then. Black people have helped shape the way this country has become and have contributed to the growth in spirit - especially in the last 40 years. They were treated horrendously as slaves - as they were in many other countries who used slave labor then, but that's not now.

There is a lot of opportunity for all citizens, no matter where they came from.

Answer 4

I'm plenty proud to be an American. Sure, my ancestors didn't have it like I do, but you have to appreciate the fact that they went through all that they did for us to be free and some of us doing better than many whites. The bottom line is that America IS the best country to live in. Many countries still have slaves in some form, and the corruption in the African nations and AIDS AND the circumcisions of the women is horrible. There are still people wanting to kill every black in the world in America, but you can go to many African countries or pretty much any country in the world and still have the same thing.

Sure, enslavement has its effect on several blacks of today, but many of us use this as an excuse. Still others don't teach their kids values, and many of us don't stress the importance of education in our youth. We don't save for retirement, leave our people anything but bills when we die and are more likely to have a nice car than a nice house. We are more likely to go to prison than college. Prisons are filled with our youth who are just going to get out and do something else STUPID and end right back in the same place. We listen to rap music as if that makes things better, and think because we walk differently and listen to loud music that being cool means something in life.

Answer 5

Why do we have to keep bringing such a tragic topic up and using it as a crutch. Yes it happened but its OVER and every one knows about it. Let it go and move on you didnt know those people. The jews dont scream about the holocaust 24-7 the Indians dont scream of there land 24-7 millions of people over time have been persecuted yes it was wrong yes we should remeber and learn from it but for gods sake let it go and quit tring to get special attention for something you werent even close to knowing of.

Answer 6

Iam not proud to call myself American but more proud to be call Black. It would be foolish for Blacks to call themselfs Americans when over 98% of our history America been against us. Just in the late 1960 blacks just got equal rights, but the law can't make people treat you with equality. White people will always say it was the Africans that sold you anyway or you would have been a slave their. Not the case here been a slave means nothing to me, but it's the way I'm treated that matters. See in Africa they were servants, people who got food, cook, clean do all the stuff we do around the house anyway. But America it was call Chattel Slavery with was like unlike anything the slaves or anyone had ever seen before. So we should see ourself as a Black nation living in America, We will always have things that matter to us and not America like any nation. We will never be lump together as one, God say do not protake in their sins lest you recieve their plagues they can be guilty of all the sins throughout history.

What was slavery like in America compared to Africa? By Oluadah.. this testamony of the Real America

"They gave me to understand we were to be carried to these white people's country to work for them. . . . But still I feared I should be put to death, the white people looked and acted, as I thought, in so savage a manner; FOR I HAVE NEVER SEEN AMONG ANY PEOPLE SUCH INSTANCES OF BRUTAL CRUELTY: . . . The stench of the hold . . . was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time . . . The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, being so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself. . . . The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered it a scene of horror almost inconceivable."

Answer 7

You know you should be more pissed off at your own people... They are the ones that sold you into slavery to the "white man". It doesn't make it right but, part of the blame falls on them for profiting off of their "own people". All I can say is if you're not proud to be an American, get the hell out. Go back to where you came from and stop enjoying the benifits and liberties that we enjoy as a free and soverign nation.

Answer 8

if you or anybody else who lives in america, and has prospered as much as you obviously have, being able to own your own computer, are so ashamed of this country, why don`t you go to the african congo, or some other third world country where they are killing your own kind by the millions every year! children left homeless and orphaned, women and children being raped, or how about moving to the middle east, where they would be more than willing to decapitate you for believing differently that they do. or how about mexico, where you can`t tell the politicians from the druglords pumping millions of dollars worth of drugs into our countries kids every year! are you religious? the orient is full of nice folks just waiting to torture you if you refuse to denounce your god and claim theirs! you know what? if you`re so ashamed of this country, i , and i`m sure a whole lot of others would be happy to buy you a ticket to any of the above mentioned vacation worderlands!
AMERICA, LIKE IT OR GET THE HELL OUT!!!!!!

Answer 9

Well, looking at the things that are happening today in Africa, I can honestly say that God put my ancestors here then to give me and my family a better life now. I'm proud to be an American BECAUSE of the stuggles all of my ancestors,not just the balck ones, put in to make it the country that it is today.

Answer 10

This is a strong question, Black people can be proud americans FOR what they fought for. If you aren't then I'd compare it to the highest amount of quitting in the world even considering the progress you guys have been making in the last 200 years.

Answer 11

Why don't you quit worrying about being a proud black American and just focus on being a proud American? You could just try being proud of who you are as a person and use your attitude to help people learn that no matter the past, race, or deeds of others, we are all in this together.