What is your opinion?

Question

How do you think slavery influenced the evolution of both Black and White America today? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

I don't think it is slavery that influenced evolution but desegregation (freedom)... With desegregation came all kinds of black and white woes...dumbing down of education, assimilation of a "foreign" and not so desirable culture, "eubonics"...my 3 year old is speaking eubonics..it is easier lol!

Desegregation benefited the blacks in every way but it did not do much of anything for anybody else except cause trouble. They were expected to suddenly carry the ball, but they were not, are not and never will be able to do that. South Africa is a good example, whites are living behinds fences defending themselves against the "freedoms" of blacks.
I don't mean to be harsh but look around you, freedom is everywhere in America.

Answer 2

The addition of slavery actually opened the door for what we know to be the great melting pot. How so? Because if you look at what happened after slavery, many blacks began to take meagers roles. Such as help building the rail road system. Which of course, allowed the train age to meet the needs of a expanding America. Of course, where there is expansion and growth there are jobs. And, an increase of jobs and an opportunity for a new way of living, opened the door for many other immigrants to come to America. Yet, their it seemed that white america made concessions to accepting people of other races because it was "profitable". As a result, of letting one race benefit another an unlikely exchange of events occured which lead to what we have today in America. Overall, we can co-exist with one another today because we set aside our differences for the moment for the sake of prosperity.

Answer 3

I think that slavery, in the end, made whites afraid of being white and blacks lose their identity.

The slave trade was wrong. No question about that. However, white people today should not cower in a corner and be afraid to speak in Case they say something un-politically correct because of what people did a century or more ago. I'm not condoning racism, but white people shouldn't be afraid of being white.

Many blacks, on the other hand, lost their identity when slavery was abolished. Not because their identity was in slavery but because they shook free of the chains of slavery but forgot to take their history and morality with them.

Look at what happened when the hurricane hit New Orleans. 50 years ago, the black men would have carried everything and everyone they could out of the city before the hurricane hit and then, out of love, would have gone back to help more people. In the 21st century, they went out looting the shops and fighting then complained because the white government didn't come 'save' them.

Each subsection of American culture needs to look at themselves and recognize that they still have things they need to fix in themselves. No people-group is blameless!

Peter

Answer 4

It influenced some in a bad way.Some black and white people like Jim b are still stupid enough to be racist.But it also influenced some in a good way by showing us not to repeat it.

Answer 5

If slavery hadn't happened, a lot of the black-Americans would still be in Africa killing each other or dieing of AIDS. Also, at least where I live, if you look at the job industries they work in, it's mostly lower-paying jobs like restaurant work, gas station attendant, grocery store clerk, etc.

Answer 6

I think it influenced it for the worse
Look at society today.

Answer 7

Black people think we owe them something now. And they use that as an excuse to be disruptive and not work. They lie, cheat, steal and hurt other people to make it through life. Not saying all are like that but most are.