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I need proof that they were put in chains. Bound together on a ship for three months on their back. Minimum food and water. No way to expell except on each other. Sometimes thrown overboard because supplies ran low. Bought and sold and branded like animals. And are still living with the same stereotypes today as they lived with 400 years ago.

2006-07-17 02:24:31 · 3 answers · asked by jimmy 1 in Politics & Government Other - Politics & Government

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No I dont think we will find that proof. It is unprecedented in the modern world. The injustices and the system of lies spawned by slavery in an attempt to reconcile the enslavement and mistreatment of another human being with their Protestant faith still impact us today. It was a lie that blacks are inherently, intellectually and morally inferior. It was a lie that blacks had no self-control or ability to maintain their own economy. Just like it was a lie that blacks had tails like monkeys. That blacks were MADE to clean our house. That if we didnt take care of them they would be lost like little children. It was all a lie.

And after emancipation (after HUNDREDS of years of this lie), when blacks very quickly made headway in the reconstruction era: showing their intellect and political will, many elected (way more than today) to national and state legislatures, becoming successful landowners and businessmen, building a strong church and extended family community. - Guess what happened. Racists (well thats all they had benen taught) could not bear to realize that the whole system was built on an elaborate series of lies. So the KKK Knight Riders were born, gerrymandering election districts, redlining and segregationist laws, Jim Crow laws, open hostility against blacks, separationist laws written into the books of america's legal system, university "studies" "proving" that blacks were inferior. Shameful. Even more shameful than the original greedy perpetrators.

When will america learn to come to terms with the continuing impact of this unfair system of slavery and Post-slavery: lack of landownership, disparity in business ownership (when the knight riders burn down the family store and lynch daddy - its kinda hard to pass down that family business intact), apathy, a sense of fatalism and low self esteem i.e. Things are never gonna get better cuz we tried and nothing worked..... The discouragement seen now in the black community is a direct result of slavery. the powers that be continue to pit some against the others fostering a sense within the community of "survival of the fittest - every man for himself". the myth of the house slave being better then the field slave is still alive and well. Tokens are habitually chosen to be the only black with an office, the only black in the men's club, the only black on the block. It appeases the conscience and the black bourgeoisie (like the overseers of slavery) accept the position and even convert to Republicanism (can you say Clarence Thomas and Condie Rice?)

Okay, that's enough for one day. It is a sad history and a sad reflection on american white ancestry - but it can be discussed and resolved even today. But first we must acknowledge our sins to be forgiven of them.

2006-07-17 02:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by answers999 6 · 3 0

Hello,

As far as i know Afrcian were the one brought to US and other islands like Jamaica as slaves. Europeans were like the top they could do whatever they wanted....

2006-07-17 09:29:04 · answer #2 · answered by kida_w 5 · 0 0

Maybe we should ship the Africans back and start all over.

2006-07-17 09:27:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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