You don\'t understand, you keep going back to the old days, which don\\\'t matter anymore. Were you in this political movement? Well it\\\'s over so don\\\'t say it anymore.
Compared to other slaves throughout the world, the blacks had it better than alot of the others. In the Roman Empire, if a slave accidentally broke a cup or some other object, they would probably be killed. Their lives were worth less than a cup. A freaking cup The owner would essentially have all of their slaves tortured/killed if he believed that they were plotting something, whether it was murder, escape, ect. Now am I saying that blacks had it easy? No. But what I am saying that in comparison to other slaves in the world, blacks had it better than in other civilizations.
in other civilizations, slaves were usually doing common household labor and typically their status was not passed to their descendants. last time I checked, a majority of blacks did back-breaking farm labor and their status was passed down to another generation Merged Post: <span style='font-family:Comic Sans MS'>compare the two <a href=\'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Power\' target=\'_blank\'>White Power</a> / <a href=\'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Power\' target=\'_blank\'>Black Power</a> White Power: \\\"As a political phrase, White Power was coined by American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell...White Power became the name of the American Nazi Party\\\'s newspaper, and the title of a book by Rockwell. Many racist factions — such as white supremacists and certain Neo-Nazis — use the phrase White Power.\\\" Black Power: \\\"Black Power was a political movement. It was most prominent in the late 1960s and early 1970s, that strove to express a new racial consciousness among blacks in the United States. More generally, the term refers to a conscious choice on the part of blacks to nurture and promote their collective interests, advance their own values, and secure their own well-being and some measure of autonomy, rather than permit others to shape their futures and agendas.\\\" u really think that they r saying the same thing?</span> [snapback]3596237[/snapback][/quote] you realize the black power definition is identical to the white power definition as all those nazi's wanted to do was promote their own values and prevent others from making choices for them. also the fact that there is a somewhat militaristic aspect of black power doesn't help either... when it comes down to it, virtually every racialy based organization with the goal of self promotion - has the goal of self promotion and typically it involves placing such said race above another in some socio-economic or political situation. I might be a bit crazy though, I come form an area which is around 50% white(albeit the area I live in is around 95% Caucasian) 40% latino and 10% Asian and quite frankly there is almost no racially motivated fighting around here. There are certain discrepancies, and certainly bias still exists, but I really don't know of anyone personally who treats others poorly solely on the basis of race. Some of the people whom I like the most are latinos(albiet they are fairly whitewashed) and of the 1% of the population which is black, I haven't met a single person who I dislike. when you think about it, most of the racially motivated fighting that occurs mostly happens in poorer areas dominated by non-white ethnicities(atleast in southern california, LA is pretty bad in this aspect)
<span style='font-family:Comic Sans MS'>so killing over 6 million (recorded) Jewish people for just being Jewish was "promoting values"......yeah the Jewish people were really trying to make choices for the Nazis right the black power movement wasn't about dominating over another race like the white power movement was. black people were already treated like crap and just wanted to be treated EQUALLY to everyone else. they were treated as if they were "lower" than the white person or of "less value". trying to raise your race up to be treated FAIRLY is NOT the same as trying to completely "exterminate (Nazis)" or "dominate (white supremacists)" another race</span>
you realize the black power definition is identical to the white power definition as all those nazi's wanted to do was promote their own values and prevent others from making choices for them. also the fact that there is a somewhat militaristic aspect of black power doesn't help either... when it comes down to it, virtually every racialy based organization with the goal of self promotion - has the goal of self promotion and typically it involves placing such said race above another in some socio-economic or political situation. I might be a bit crazy though, I come form an area which is around 50% white(albeit the area I live in is around 95% Caucasian) 40% latino and 10% Asian and quite frankly there is almost no racially motivated fighting around here. There are certain discrepancies, and certainly bias still exists, but I really don't know of anyone personally who treats others poorly solely on the basis of race. Some of the people whom I like the most are latinos(albiet they are fairly whitewashed) and of the 1% of the population which is black, I haven't met a single person who I dislike. when you think about it, most of the racially motivated fighting that occurs mostly happens in poorer areas dominated by non-white ethnicities(atleast in southern california, LA is pretty bad in this aspect) [snapback]3598756[/snapback][/quote] Many slaves in the Roman Empire were killed. Mainly for minor reasons. If a slave had a child, then he/she would also be a slave. Blacks were able to have generations of slaves because they weren't killed for any slight reason.
well about the "n" word it is spannish for the word black? so i cant see how it offensive at all? ok there is the stigma that white people used to call the slaves the n word but when black people called each other it, it just confuses me? well there is much more resent rasicm that we all would know of like the rosa parks insident, and many others like it. if we look back at the roman empire they used alot of slaves there was alot of black slaves then from carthage ( tunissia) but they weren't slaves because they were black. and just to get things straight im from wales in britain. its was countrys like britain,france spain and some others that colinized africa and britain that took control of jamaica and some nere by countrys, most the slaves were ship to europe or jamica then from jamaica to the americas. most of the fancy buildings in britain were constructed from the money made from slavery. thats why britain was so reluctant to stop it. the abolitment of slavery in britain only stop the actully transporting of blacks from africa it didnt stop them from working as slaves so slavery carryed on for 40 years+ after. where i am from (wales) it has a load of coal,copper,lead and loads of other diffrent types of mines, and some of the people who worked in them were as young as 7 they wernt enslaved or black, but they had to work and they worked for pennies making just enough money to eat i havent seen anyone apolagise to them? and we are only goin back 100 years there. look at the time of the industrial revolution in britain, the average life expectancy was like 30 years old. there was no health and saftey back then. look at world war 2 all allied prisoners of war captured by the 'japs' had to build railways and were starved working long hours in terrible conditions for years. i think black slavery is totaly totaly over talked about white people have nothing to be sorry for, well not todays generations anyway.
My opinion about slavery: (havent read the other replies) Well, of course slavery is wrong, but it isnt only the black people that have been treated bad. The jews have had it 10 times worse.. and its not only black people that been used as slaves.. It was only blacks in a period of time.. but white people has also been slaves In the old Rome empire for example.. soo, well.. a nice thread and all.. but you refear it to black slavery.. and thats just a small amount of slavery in general..
Black slavery was a horrible, and wrong trade. People are people. It doesn't matter what your skin colour is. You could be purple or green and I wouldn't care. Sorry for the short reply; I would write more but I'm trying to cook and be active on GR at the same time ^_^
<span style='font-family:Comic Sans MS'>actually the Spanish word for black is "negro" which is pronounced "nagro" (with the long "a" sound) when said with a Spanish accent the word that offends us black people is "******"</span>
i dont think the N word has anything do with slavery..? i honestly dont know.. but if you get so offended by it, why do you call your black friends "******" all the time then? If its "hurting you", you shouldnt say it at all.. ive never said the N word, but ive wondered about it u know..
