black people.....?

Question

why do you always assume white people are to blame for all your 'problems'?

did you know that slavery began in africa, when tribes were selling the 'weaker' members of their tribes to other tribes to use as slaves? and that 'slaves' were traded for sugar when white people went to africa searching for SOMETHING TO TRADE!! did you know that blacks are still enslaved right now as you are reading this! yeah, in africa, black people own other black people. so why id it taught in schools that whites enslaved blacks? why does every school book 'forget' to mention that blacks were enslaving eachother and still are today?

Answer 1

actually sweetheart, slavery has existed way before then. its not black people who are blaming people for their problems, its poor people in general. love ur hair

Answer 2

First, although slavery was practiced in Africa long before the Europeans came, their arrival and subsequent activities in Africa helped exploit it into an international affair.
Second, why do YOU assume that black people feel this way?
I don't.

Answer 3

the word SLAVERY stems from the Slav which means Slavic. The Europeans were enslaving people from those areas too. Slavery is practiced in Europe today. A simple google of 'white slavery' will educate you in the matter. However, the systemic exclusion of a people from all aspects of political and social life, the dehumanization of the slaves occured in the Americas like nowhere else. This is an indisputable fact.

I love it when kids FIRST learn one tiny fact and extrapolate tons of nonsense from that! You have a ways to go kiddo.

Answer 4

Honey, do you realize the irony of your question? You just made a racist assumption about other people's racist assumptions.

Specifically, you directed your question at ALL black people (assuming they ALL have the same opinion); you claimed that they ALWAYS assume (assuming they ALL of them do this ALL the time, not some some people some of the time); you assumed that they are blaming white people specificially, and not the biased power structure in general; you claimed they are assigning blame for ALL their problems, instead just a generalized problem; and finally, you trivialized genuine and reasonable complaints and lumped them together with insignificant complaints by placing "problems" in quotation marks.

You should probably examine your own prejudices and statements before you try to confront those of other people.

Answer 5

Enough of them certainly do to cause a problem.

Black people forget that a long time ago, the Moors (who were black) invaded a portion of Europe which included Spain, Portugal, and I think France (all white countries).

Answer 6

Because this is not Africa
Whites enslaved blacks in America why ignore that fact and what happened to them while they were enslaved.
Get over yourself

Answer 7

why do white people assume that is what black people feel?

I am in control of my life. My good job, my home, my nice car, my happy life... I got on my own. White people did not help me with it, and white people can not take it away from me. So, no... white people are not the source of my problems.

Now if you are posting this question to imply that black people and other minorities are not still oppressed by a lot of white people in power... then that is just your ignorance. If you don't live it, there is no way you would know. But, I can guarantee you that a black person has to work twice as hard just to prove themselves. But, again... you wouldn't know anything about that. So, just enjoy your whiteness and stop worrying about us blacks.

Regardless to who sold who into slavery... that does not condone the fact that white people stole them from their native land and sold them to the highest bidder. Not to mention all of the raping and beating involved too. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Besides, that is called survival. If it was between me being sold into slavery, or Tommy across the street. I'm going to pick Tommy to save my own as$. Common sense would tell you that.

Answer 8

i'm black, and i have never blamed my problems on white people. we learn about how whites enslaved blacks because it happened, it a part of american history that we should learn about. my school teaches about how africans have enslaved other africans, and it is wrong too.

Answer 9

what the hell are u talking about!!! they have slave everywhere today and not just in africa. they have it in the middle east, in some latin countries. And for the history of slavery , yea the africans were selling their people but they did not expect the people that they were selling them to treat them like **** and to beat them. there are documents that state that the africans that were slaves in their homeland was treated far better than in the US. get your facts straight. also the people that were selling the slaves those people were of the islamic religion.

Answer 10

Slavery, rape, lynchings, church bombings, cross burnings, KKK, skin heads, segregation, J Edgar Hoover, assasinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, racial profiling, poor inner city education. Although we do not blame white people for ALL of our problems, I would say white people have historically put many walls in front of us. And white people still do in a passive agressive way as oppossed to the blatant ways of the past.

Answer 11

Because white people stereotype and it's natural to point to people with power for the problems. Ask the French and Italians as well as American during our revolutions....It is a natural human response to blame the dominant beings for your problems, hence the reason the nation hates Bush right now...