If i produce a fine leather chair and wish to produce dozens more for the retail market , as a white man I am greeted with offers from furniture vendors with open arms . You are right that a black man would be paid less for the same quality of workmanship .
Its strange that construction sites have dozens of Black men working but always the same two jobs . Debris removal and site cleanup and as concrete/ block& brick layers . Occasionally you will find a single black man working for the other trades as an electrician or carpenter or painter as a plumber or cabinet installer , glazier,and mechanical workers and that is a rare thing .
All black painting crews not so rare but years ago they use to do plaster and drywall and now the mexicans have taken over . You use to see black men doing tile work in kitchens and bathrooms and again those jobs have been taken over by the mexicans .
Hot tar roofs use to be a black mans job and again the mexicans have moved in .
As I read over this answer I notice I mentioned it was a black mans job and now a mexicans job .
Notice the absence of white mans job .
White men do not have Jobs they manage the jobs own the companies and have a lock in the industry that does not allow minorities up the ladder .
You are so right in asking if you would be better off if muslims win .
The answer is probably yes ,it is the poor mans religion .
Every place it is popular with people it is under extreme poverty .
It is a working class religion and if you are smart you should avoid becoming associated with it .
If you want to get ahead do as the white people do and start showing up at the mega churches and playing the game as they do .
Its a working class organization of people with some job skills and higher wages .
Once you spend a generation or two in that environment you will move on to attending church for your Political career and once elected may stand a chance of getting to the money pot .
This you can hand out to your black community if you are not brainwashed into believing they are all lazy drunks and drug addicts who have dropped out of school and joined a gang .
This will be hard for you to do against so much indoctrination that the poor man is poor because he choses to be that way .
And to a certain extent it is true , but opportunity is not available for the black man as long as the white majority control the money .
The only way to the money pot is going to the white mans church school an working around him .
This will take a toll on your mind as you begin to hear that blacks are lazy , well except for you of course you worked hard to get what you have and you and your beautiful family are in church and not selling drugs on the street your wife is not a whore going from bed to bed to bed having who knows what mans child .
If you watch muaree povich he is always doing a your daddy's baby show and the black women always have like 5 possible baby daddy's and the white trash usually just two .
So you know the message is Black women are hoes that can not control their bodies .
SO by the time you get to the place where you could help if you attempted to assimilate into white culture you would become one of them from years of white indoctrination and influence .
you would look and say hey you are right . They could get here if they wanted .
Thats where people are wrong .
A few black familes in a church are one thing and as every minister will do if the numbers increase they will reach out to the black minister to gather in these rebel blacks and bring them to the proper church .
Religion is a business and to many blacks will begin to have an effect on attendance of the white folks . So ministers priests and all religions are careful to keep the races separate .
The odds are really stacked against you and I feel for you but it is hard to educate stupid white people who are racist when they do not even see it and claim they are not .
They have a black friend you know .
Its hard to tough it out at the bottom isn't it . I can tell you this though Its a lot worse everyplace else almost except Europe and there it is from hard work and owning land .
Strange that the land given blacks here has been taken from them . The tax structure and the sanctions imposed on black farmers forced them to sell the land to survive . They had no economic base in the community that could afford to pay a fair price for their goods . The black community was to poor to sustain itself as a community and failed 100 years ago only to become the slaves again except for the lost wages possible and the if you do not like working for 1 dollar a day then you will have no work at all or cleaning a white mans house would get you the scraps from his root cellar and table instead of pay . You would have to cut of the section the rats had gnawed on or scrap the ants off or sift them out of the flour that the white man no longer wanted .
They gave you nothing during the civil rights movement
You need a financial rights movement . No more 30% interest on a loan you have to pay back in two weeks . This can become financial crippling if you do it more then a few times a year . I have heard of people who do it once a month . So the government gets its 30% --7% ssi 23% income and the local lender takes his 30% or his 10% mortgage when the rest of the nation is paying 5.5% so at every turn you lose .
I do not blame you for being angry at whites .
But living in any other nation or system would be far worse . Find a voice among your people to champion your way and take to the streets to get some help . You can not afford to keep paying out the nose at every turn for capital . Thats money folks . The black man needs 3% loans for twenty years and a trillion dollars of that money available over the course of two years .
Time is your enemy and small loans and small projects will take you right back to the land time forgot when 40 acres and a mule was handed out . The land was almost free back then and the mules surplus . From the growing use of mechanical devices and steam engines trains and the new rail lines built with slave labor .
I could write a book and better organize my thoughts here but I think you get my point .
I do not want you to give up and it is possible to demand a fair shake but you have to know what a fair shake and deal are or you will get taken again and everything you get will just go right to whitty
2007-04-04 02:17:43
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answered by trouble maker 3
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So after 300 years of promoting and financing slavery as well as establishing it the fact that England and Europe ended slavery 20 years prior to the USA makes the USA wrong? The USA had Slavery in some states for around 84 years. The European nations May have ended Slavery a few years prior but paid good money for the Cheap goods Slavery produced. The established the entire culrure of it in the new world. Hitler would have erased the Black man from the Planet. The are NO Tiger Woods and No Halle Berry's and NO Black Austronauts in China, No Blacks In High Places in the Chinese Government and they will not be supporting a Half Black Canditdate in the Next Election, They do not have Black Govenors and Congressmen. If Alquida Wins Blacks will pay more for gas in America and Europe and Africa. If medicine costs more to Ship due to High oil prices Africans will die by the thousands.
2007-04-04 01:32:17
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answered by ThorGirl 4
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Anyone who truly believes that blacks in America are better off for being kidnapped and brought to a country to be enslaved is delusional. In a perfect world they would be able to forget the past and stop being victims. The reason that blacks are often seen as playing 'victim' is because they are being Victimized. This society has never let these people really become a part of it. Yes, there are wealthy blacks but that is the exception to the rule and not the rule. The poor blacks in America are not allowed to live in peace and they do not benefit from the rights and freedoms that are given to immigrants. Blacks have always been treated with hatred and at the very least, with disdain for their simple rights. The fact that that number blacks in prison is so disproportionate is not because there are simply more black criminals than white; it is because we live in a racist society that has found a way around slavery. Instead of every family owning its own little '*****' , the state rounds them up and puts them in prison ( where they work for no pay....i.e. slavery) People who actually believe that racism isn't a factor in America are simply turning a blind eye to it. No one can honestly say that it doesn't exist and that blacks in America are impoverished, imprisoned, and kept down because they choose it.
To answer the question, I don't really believe that it would make a difference to the majority of African Americans if the US didn't win this war. The terrorists that attack the US are people just like us who have been forced into a corner. You speak of religion and say that that is what its all about. It is about a nation, THE super power who goes around the world telling others how to live. The war in Iraq was never about weapons of mass destruction, it was always about oil. The terrorists that are there now are a product of the United States actions. The white nations go around telling others what they see as wrong in their societies and that they have to conform, or else! We have created these terrorist that threaten us now. The US is nothing more than a bully on a playground and eventually someone is going to say Enough. We are merely reaping what we sow.
No matter who is in charge, African Americans couldn't possibly be any worse off than they are now!
Note*** when was the last time that a white boy, man, whatever, was shot 20-30-40-50 times for anything by law enforcement?
2007-04-04 02:01:10
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answered by Kijarra 2
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As an African American, I am totally confused by your question.
Are you seriously trying somehow to claim that because we have already been disadvantaged in this country that things wouldn’t be worse following an al Qaeda, Chinese or (going back in history) a Hitler victory? That is just ridiculous! Hitler would have put us all in death camps based on the Nazi ideas of racial superiority. China is still a totalitarian communist country that does not allow civil liberties for its citizens. Al Qaeda is a militant extremist Islamic group that believes in forcing fundamentalist religious views on the entire society. Everything is relative. Also, the British introduced slavery to its American colonies so there is little reason to believe that there would have been universal emancipation had they won the Revolutionary War. BTW, my life has already been adversely affected by the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
I suggest that you find out more about the alternatives that you are comparing to life in the US before making such absurd statements.
2007-04-04 01:27:18
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answered by tribeca_belle 7
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You are crazy.
The first person killed in the American War of Independence was a free black man. Currently, there are 22 mil. black people held in slavery by other black people in Africa.....right now, today.
Hitler killed blacks, jews, gypsies, catholics, academics, handicapped, gays, and others. American blacks have seen the largest percentage growth in the last ten years in terms of college enrollment, home ownership, business ownership, and stock market investment. For you to ridicule this step shows that you need to do more research.
Even during ww2, ww1, and Korea, blacks overwhelmingly supported the defense of American interests abroad, even though the promise of total American liberty was denied them at home.
Blacks fought on both sides in the civil war. Blacks worked in industry for both sides in the civil war.
If you are not Wahabbi Muslim, Al Queda will kill you. If you are not a communist, or believe in God, China will imprision you, then kill you. All Americans loose if America looses. And so does the free world.
2007-04-04 01:25:07
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answered by lundstroms2004 6
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You are not just a black person. You are a human who happened to be black. You are not just a human, you are an American. You are as American as apple pie. America is the land of opportunity for all Americans. If any other country defeated America it would be very, very bad for Americans. That includes you.
Don't focus on what makes us different. Focus on what makes us the same. We all want respect. We all want success. We all want love. We all want our children to have it better than we did. These are the same for all Americans. Just like the Marines have each others back regardless of race, color or creed, all Americans should have each others backs. America, herself, is not racist. There are racist individuals. They just don't get it. We are far stronger together than we could every be divided. Cast a suspicious eye on those who try to divide people into groups whether it is back or white, rich or poor, foreign born or native born, Christian or Jew or any other way. They are trying to weaken America.
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2007-04-04 01:23:06
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answered by Jacob W 7
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I think black Americans have a choice: They can take advantage of the opportunities in the US to improve their own lives, or they can continue to play the victim. It's been an entire generation (or two, some people have children so young) since the civil rights legislation. What have black Americans done with their freedoms? And to answer your question, the terrorists will kill black Americans right along with the rest of us. What percentage of our military is black? Do you know?
And just a tip--If you like Obama for president in 2008, this kind of rhetoric will sink that ship, and fast.
2007-04-04 01:00:13
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answered by ? 2
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I frequently come across truly ridiculous statements in the politics section of Y! Answers. Your statements are beyond ridiculous. I think "asinine" is a better choice of words. Black people in the US are better off than the vast majority of people of any color, anywhere else in the world.
According to the NAACP, there are more black millionaires in the US than there are white millionaires. Chew on that for awhile.
2007-04-04 01:09:54
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answered by regerugged 7
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Your question gave me a headache. Do white people benefit from pain relievers?
2007-04-04 01:02:03
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answered by Debra D 7
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Pretty sure the planes that hit the buildings were targeting people of every color. Religion is the issue, not race.
2007-04-04 00:57:20
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answered by wizjp 7
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