2007-04-21 09:15:27 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
everything is about being human now regardless of color, race, ethnic background or sex... people should move on and instead of trying to bring back bad memories just think of the future and make it better for the future generations
2007-04-21 09:24:30 · answer #1 · answered by WM 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
We must never forget that there was slavery - where one group or race traded another for cash and treated them like breeding stock. Remembering the past makes us appreciate the present and honour the future. Slavery did exist and it was an indightment on social structure. Read Alex Haley's Roots and other books out there. Children were treated terribly. Black slave mothers and fathers lived in fear that the white slave owners would take there children. There was many accounts of babies before they were born being wagered in gambling bets, a black baby would sell for $600.00 or the child would be given as a gift to another slave owner. Usually the children were kept like pets and then when they grew up sent to work in the fields. And the Slave Trade was not ended due to people's intense feelings it was wrong - it simply was not econimal and that was how the North and South fought. We need to remember. Even today the thought of relatives of being traded like cattle must hurt deeply.
2007-04-21 18:14:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The money will never help her get over it, that's why people love her, black woman not forgetting slavery and making sure that America doesn't either, don't it just wind u up? It was 100's of years ago - and now Government are apologising for it? Why don't everyone just shut the **** up and move on ...
Did you know that it was 'white' people who put a stop to slavery? Oprah didn't tell you that did she?
2007-04-21 16:22:01 · answer #3 · answered by bruvvamoff 5 · 2⤊ 6⤋
All the money in the world can't eliminate that sort of anger. I could be given the entire gross domestic product of Germany, but that wouldn't make up for the fact that several members of my family were killed by Nazis.
2007-04-21 18:37:15 · answer #4 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It aint the money baby its the attitude.
2007-04-25 14:29:35 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget about it? LMAO... you're asking the question like she was EVER a slave? She wasnt.. NO Black person in this country today has EVER tasted what it was like to be a slave. Blacks are just like feminists... they all talk about slavery and oppression like it happened yesterday, or even 50 years ago... it didn't. Feminists have more right to still be upset than the blacks do... because women were oppressed more recently than ANY black was a slave.
2007-04-21 16:28:39 · answer #6 · answered by Cameron 2 · 1⤊ 5⤋