who thinks that black people are pver exagerating about slavery? The government pays them way too much! right?

Question

i mean, yes there was slavery but that didnt affect the blacks living today! Everytime something isnt in their favour the blacks yell that whites are rasists, and prejudice...which is not true!!!!

Answer 1

Black people have had 150 years to lose the monkey on their backs, but they simply choose to replace it with others (crack etc.) They even mock the African Americans who work hard and succeed, by calling them Eggplant (black on the outside, white on the inside). Its pretty pathetic. Seems to me that they enjoy their place in society and can't have too much to complain about when a white/ asian/latino man or woman calls them *****er, since they call each other that and seem to be proud of it. I don't know what they are paid, but it can't be much compared to the 600,000$ plus each Canadian native American gets on his 21st birthday.
Note: Had to mention that most native american (Canadian) men continue to pick up a welfare/social security check during the whole time they are blowing the whole amount on booze and whores. But hey, their ancestors made a bad call, they deserve it back right?

Yes, because I don't kiss up to the minorities that must make me racist right? No, don't check the history books, look at the figures for today, and see where the real problem lies. It's not race. It's not the poverty of our parents, it's complacency (regardless of race) and laziness. You can also check stats on the misdistribution of wealth and that might help you out.

Answer 2

Everytime something isn't in the favor of whites, people yell that blacks are racist and prejudice as well. I mean, do you watch the news? Are you reading these questions on Yahoo Answers? It goes both ways.

And I disagree with your saying that slavery does not affect blacks living today because it does. Why do you think so many blacks are poor? Because we're just dumb? No (though there are dumb people in every race), it's because those of us who have ancestors who were slaves or kept from certain jobs or schools later on because of discrimination don't have the same inheritance to fall back on as people who were white.

Let's look at the big picture. If Jo's dad was white and made a rather decent income, there's a high chance that Jo was raised with good support and had the money of his father to fall back on. Now, Lisa's dad was a direct decendant of a slave and had to start with nothing. Even after he went after an education there was a glass ceiling that he could not overcome because of racism. He tried his hardest but was still only make to make a low-income. So Lisa is left, again, starting from the bottom. It's a continuous cycle that's incredibly hard to break.

Now what makes the cycle even more difficult to break is the hand-outs that the government distributes to lazy effin people who don't deserve them, making the rest of us look bad. I wish they would stop awarding blacks for sitting around and doing nothing. Maybe then the black community would take the initiative, stop feeling sorry for themselves, and do what they need to do to succeed. No, it's not easy, but it's gonna be damn well worth it in the end.

Answer 3

First off you would know so much more about history if schools actually didn't leave many things out of the text books. I find it hard for most blacks to succeed in America as a result of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement, with whites doing everything to prevent that by coming with laws against blacks, threatening and trying to kill us. Whites really didn't start treating blacks with a little respect until the mid 70s in most places.

Everyone is affected by how they are raised, if your parents, grandparents and great grandparents never had the opportunity to really succeed due to white oppression and remained poor from it, then your affected by the way they brought you up. If you think about it whites have only been treating blacks right about 30 years, believe it or not that's not really a long time. You can't really expect a race to fix all their problems in one generation. It would be nice, but its impossible. Even today you see how blacks are still discriminated against by some whites on the job.

If ever have the opportunity to take a college history course. They'll explain many things to you that you never learned in highschool and what the end results are. By the way blacks to receive money from the government, United States citizens do, who just happened to be on welfare. This includes someone from every race.

Answer 4

Slavery does affect the black people living today. We as a nation have yet to have a black president, even though a large amount of the country is African American. The only successful black people we see in the media are the rappers propogating a materialistic lifestyle (put your money right back into the economy, don't amass wealth and property), and those comedians on sitcoms and movies. Black people do not have a serious voice yet in this country, hopefully we are moving toward changing that.

Answer 5

Actually slavery, as a culture, does affect the lives of blacks even today. The vestiges of slavery are still expilicit in any discussion of race. The very concept of race was created as a rationale for enslaving people. The government pays no special amount to blacks. There is no Black Fund funneling white taxpayers money out to blacks. That is silly. When someone is racist, they are racist, black, white, red, yellow, or green. It is easy to say that a group overexagerates something that didn't happen to the speaker or their ancestors.

Answer 6

I don't go around blaming whites for any of my problems, and I could care less if you or anybody else is racist or prejudice and furthermore; black people don't sit around talking about slavery. It seems to me that white people have more to say on the topic than black people. Why is that? And what exactly is being exagerated about slavery? You make no sense to me.

Answer 7

Slavery doesn't affect blacks today? Im not drinking that kool aid I dont care how much sugar you put in it.

The biggest affect slavery is had on Black people is the destruction of thier culture. It gave Black people something like an identity crisis, that we are far from over coming.

Most white people in America know that they are Irish, or scottish, they have an identity other than being immigrants to America. Black people's only identity is that of being a descendants of slaves. Don't get mad at me cause I say it.
It took 500 years to get to this point, it will probably take another 500 years before we forget about it.

Answer 8

OK Honey, I would take you abit more seriously if you could spell but then again your question sort of puts your intelligence right out there in the open.

To answer your question... Slavery you can argue rather it affected us or not, if you'd like but one thing you can't argue is the Jim Crow era, and yes, that happend in most of our life times so it definitely had an effect on us and our families. Now I know you don't know what the Jim Crow era even is so I won't go into the reconstruction era and all of that but in the spirit of education I'll throw you a bone. ;-)

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/

Answer 9

Perhaps when history was taught, you missed the lesson and didn't realize slavery and "government paying them" were not one in the same. You probably missed out on the lesson taught that the welfare system was designed for everyone who suffered during the depression. Please know that slavery and a person being on the "people's" tax dollars is not the same thing. It is altogether DIFFERENT. :)

Answer 10

DAHLING. It is actually white people who keep bringing the crap up. I can assure you that blacks are not sitting around, huddled together in secret meetings across America talking about slavery. Seriously! Stop being melodramatic.

So, why do whites obsess about slavery so much. I mean, like get over it already.