Why do Blacks still hate us Whites because of slavery?

Question

I understand that they were treated wrong, but none of the Blacks living today were slaves. They act like they were the only slaves in history, when everyone living today is a descendant of a slave, even if the person was enslaved 100's of years ago. Hey, I am Irish, and we once went through the same thing. Irish women were raped, and the men were tortured and enslaved by the British and Scandinavians, but do I hate them? No, I don't. I have learned that because a couple of people in one group do something, it doesn't mean you can discriminate against the whole group. Why can't this crap stop.

Answer 1

You make an excellent point but I also think you are overgeneralising and just may be confusing fear and resentment for hate to a large degree. I am not really African-American but I happen to be a brown-skinned immigrant with tightly-curled hair so everyone just assumes that I'm Afro-American and thus am often treated as one.

I can honestly understand where the continued resentment comes from. Until you start walking into a room for an interview and have your interviewers do a double-take because your transcripts/experience don't quite match what they expect a n!qqer to have, you will never understand what they are experiencing as a people.

Until you start having to travel 15-30 minutes to have access to decent white stores because your black middle class neighborhood doesn't have any of the major reputable store chains, you will never understand the continued animosity.

Until your children are subjected to a system of perpetual failure due to downright apathy or antipathy from bitter educators, you will continue to be shocked by the degree of rage often projected by African Americans.

The first poster is absolutely right. Many Americans (Whites and even Blacks) often cite the end of the Civil War as the point of reference for African American independence. However, doing that denies the fact that freeing people of chains while continuing to maintain the systems that kept those people enslaved is absolutely counterproductive- as the creators of Jim Crow, etc knew when they enacted every measure within (and even without) their power to keep the descendants of slaves in a subjugated position.

Whether implicitly or not, many of the validations for those systems remain in place in today's society so for a large number of African-Americans, life is unreasonably difficult because of those systems... Many who are not descended from slave masters have also adopted the slave masters' mindset toward negroes (remember that Bill Cosby's son was killed by a recent Eastern European immigrant who thought it was cool to kill a ***). Even I was taught to think of my American brown-skinned brothers and sisters as ignorant, lazy and unambitious when I first migrated here as a child.

The thing though is that many Americans like to think that racial tensions are caused by black Americans and not really their reaction to the not-so-subtle system which continues to contribute to the mental enslavement of brown-skinned
Americans. So at the end of the day, this crap will never stop until America really faces its racist faults and stop pretending that it's just in the minds of the descendants of the slaves.

Answer 2

Dude... I'm effin black, and that was a long time ago. There is hatred amongst all people. You're obviously a hateful black person. I don't see colour while I'm walking down the street or what not. Skin colour shouldn't even matter anymore especially with all of the mixed raced couple now... And I'm one of them. Yes I do feel sad and that is evil what Africans and African Americans had to go through, but in this present and future, that isn't going on. No race is superior over another race. We're all one, man. Our blood is still red, and sometimes clear if you wanna get technical. And as for skin... Some just got more melanin than others... That's all

Answer 3

I'M BLACK!! and i understand exactly what you are talking about. I do not agree with all of that slavery crap but a lot of white people treats us as if we are nobody and that is wrong. so see it's really as if slavery still exists. If you only knew how much black ppl get profiled, stereotyped, and discredited just because they are black then you would understand why some blks feel that way. 4 white dudes can ride around in the car and shoot all of the cats in the neighborhood with a pellet gun and never get pulled over. if the cops see or more black guys in a car, they must be selling drugs or going to rob someone,so they get pulled over. this is what happens on a daily basis in the black community and that is why we react the way we do to whites. if white people can accept that we are different with different cultural backgrounds and we are not like them culturally then maybe we as AMERICANS can move on and have a better society. when you are negative to someone they will also be negative towards you. if more black people saw more accepting white people then they would not blame you guys for everything in the past. I don't.

Answer 4

If you look at the hate that is toward whites now days it's only half because of slavery. You wrote the history books, you committed the crimes and we still suffer from the torture through fatherless homes, learning disabilities and the inability to do a family tree. Do you think white people ever fixed what was broken when they separated mothers from babies? Do you think because God gave you savage beast the insight to grant us our freedom everything should have just feel in place? We are different, and until we face the facts of that racism will never die. This great nation was built of the back of BLACK PEOPLE slave labor, what we got in return is disenfranchisement, black belt slums ridden with drugs where whites can locate them for their desire while we get locked up at an unbelievable rate. I can go on for days why we should hate white people, but it's too much wasted energy, we have alot of fixing to do.

Answer 5

It seems that many black people feel there are issues yet to be resolved.

It is true that no one alive today ever experienced legal slavery in the US first-hand, but there have been deliberate obstacles placed along the way: efforts to build black business communities and middle classes were actively undermined - sometimes by the federal gov't itself - from 1890s to the 1930s that I'm aware of (and probably after that).

despite the promise of freedom with Reconstruction, Jim Crow laws and other "legal" tools kept them as second-class citizens into the 1960s, and more subtle barriers remained in certain places therafter.

I don't know that any quotas/forced bussing/affirmative action/repartations/whatever is/was the best solution(s) available, but no effort - nor even any public dialogue - has ever fully addressed the situation.

Answer 6

Dude, you are messed up. If there is hostility between the two races, I doubt it is from slavery. Maybe it would have something to do with things like the NYC shooting a week or two ago? Or maybe it would be because there are so many rednecks still waving that confederate flag? Racism is the problem, not slavery from 150 years ago. True, slavery has been a huge influence in making racism what it is in America today, but go talk to some African-Americans who you say "hate whites" and ask them if they are pissed off about slavery. Somebody like you is obviously never going to see things clearly, so I don't even know why I tried to answer you. Good luck in your close-minded little world.

Answer 7

Well racisms still exist - it hasnt gone anywhere. Lucky for you, you don't have to deal with it. We don't hate whites because of slavery, as you proclaim, however there is a lot of resentment toward whites for refusing to acknowledge the legacy of slavery. I'm a very well educated, 26 year old African American women who often times gets wrongly accused of for the most reduculous acts by whites over and over again = resentment. I truly just want to live a normal life just like you do, but because of the color of my skin and stereotypes, I can never ignore the legacy of slavery because it gets thown in my face. I wish I could see the world through your eyes as a white person...trust me, no one wants to be treated like a criminal and reminded everyday that they are BLACK ...although I'm on my way to a PhD and would never hurt a fly... Must be nice to be the preference in this society and to not understand what racism feels like when its in your face..just trust that it's a very hurtful thing for people of color.

PS
Educate yourself. Read books about slavery and realize the lynchings, jim crow laws, and continued segregation continue even up to today in many parts of the country.

Answer 8

Stop generalizing!. All black people are not still scorned about slavery. I think some blacks are still stuck on segregation, the Jim Crow laws, sitting at the back of the bus, etc. because that's more recent, and it ended not even 40 years ago yet. Still stop generalizing. Most black people in the United States interact with whites. Some date whites, most befriend whites, some have sex with whites on camera(Interr. porn is common), etc. So many of us don't hold that grudge, so like I said before Stop Generalizing!

Answer 9

Again, we have to be careful of lumping one group together. Not all blacks hate whites because of slavery and not all whites think blacks use racism as an excuse. I think alot of Blacks get offended because many whites still don't believe there is racism in this country and that all the excuses and accusations used by some black people are not valid. There is racism against every group. But I think some black people are more vocal because of pride and the fact that our ancestors played a major part in building this country. And the fact that the skin color is a huge distinguishing factor.

I believe the only plausible solution is for those black people to stop using race as an excuse for failure and for those white people to stop acting as if racism still does not exist. I agree, it needs to stop. The U.S. is the 'melting pot' of the world, so we might as well get used to being together and respect each others' culture.

Answer 10

shut up...your a retarded idiot cause i really dont hate anyone cause of slavery. I hear more white people being paranoid about slavery than i hear black people hating over slavery WE DONT HATE YOU...are you happy now im pretty sure uve asked a black person this and they said the same thing im saying. again WE DO NOT HATE YOU.... do you understand now???? i dont think you do cause you didn't understand the first two times so here it goes again WE DONT HATE YOU! can ya hear me now??? what is that?....you still dont get the drift let me try to dumb it down for you ME NO HATE YOU! i hope that one registered. and, if it didnt then you are truly the idiot i assumed you were. true there are alot of blacks bitter about slaverybut a majority arent!