Black Slavery / White People

Slavery, the practice of keeping people in forced servitude against their will and owning them as property.

It was a dark period in American history. A time, not to long ago, where Blacks were for forced to work for free, in cold blood, for white people, for hundreds of years, in America a.k.a. "The Land of the Free", until they were "freed" in the late 1800's only to get the snots kicked out of them daily throughout the 60's for having a naturally different skin color on their body that was not white. That was just 45 yrs ago, when it was illegal for a non-white guy to only look at another white woman. Indeed. The U.S Government (white people) passed a law to make it a criminal felony punishable by long term imprisonment with the possibility of the death penalty by hanging, to look at another white girl/woman just 45 yrs ago in this country, the U.S.

But I digress cause it's even said that had freed slaves been allowed to possess and retain even the meager amount of compensation granted to them by the U.S Government for centuries of free labor, their descendants might now control a much larger share of American social and monetary wealth just as mostly all white people do in the U.S.

Forced African slavery labor that white people enjoyed and profited from in the U.S. are estimated at $777 Trillion from about 1509 to about 1865.

"I always thought that being White is like always having 5 bucks. And being Black is like being 50 cents short. (Damn! I'm short again...)"

- Comedian Chris Rock

Laws were horrible then...I don't know what it was like here 45 years ago...

I suppose a lot can change in 45 years, but the drive for accumulating wealth into the pockets of a few hasn't changed. It's just now people in other countries are working for next to nothing. Pure capitalism is a nifty, ever changing thing isn't it?

What is your point?

You know, you can buy Social Studies term papers on the Internet. It will save you a lot of trouble (and us 1 less thread).

ugh white people didn't invent slavery they just profited off of it.......now back to slavery go attack the people that made it possible🙂

Originally posted by Bardock42
What is your point?

lol point? There is no point..

Just like there wasn't any point in American Slavery.

My message was merely an informative one only for the sole sake of the consideration of any interested reader.

It came as a epiphany so I sought out more on the subject and I thought I just thought I'd mention it for the sake of enlightenment for those that were curious. Could be anyone.

Your intentions were honourable but...it is the General DISCUSSION Forum....

"White people." "Black people." You know that Africans ("black people"😉 often sold other Africans (also "black people"😉 into slavery, right? Don't be simplistic.

You're the racist one now.

I'm white, but I've never had anything to do with slavery. Neither have you. So I'm not going to pay you for it as your implying I sould. If we all insited on being compensated by the government for wrongs done to our ancestors there would just be a lot of trouble. (mine were forced off their land by mobs backed by a govenor, even though it was completely illegal according to the constitution)

And Gregory brought up a good point. Did you know that half (if not more) of the people sold into slavery where sold by their own poeple. Without waring tribes bringing prisoners from other tribes, a lot of slaves would not have been reached.

But don't get me wrong. Slavery was one of the worst injustices forced upon any person. I hate the fact that it happened, and I'll do everything I can to keep it from happening again if it ever comes up.

But lets stop the social devide it's memory is fostering. If you keep blaming people who have nothing to do with the wrong, and creating a gap between black and white citizens because of it like you (and other people) are, the injustice will never be righted. I'm not saying forget it ever happened (that would be worse), I'm just saying stop acting like we did it.

Originally posted by botankus
You know, you can buy Social Studies term papers on the Internet. It will save you a lot of trouble (and us 1 less thread).

You know, I never knew Black Slavery was in a Social Studies book. History, yes but Social Studies never. Learned something new.

And na..I'll let you continue buying school notes on the Net for all your classes. I didn't know you could buy something as simple to do, as a Social Studies paper on-line. Either way, I had no trouble in creating this thread.

And my having wasted your time is not important to me.

I think White Slavery is just as bad as Black Slavery....

Originally posted by ~dorkerina~
Your the racist one now.

I'm in no way a racist. How ignorant would it be for me to hate another person merely on the hue of their skin. Please.

If i'm gonna hate anyone it's gotta be for something much more serious than a different skin pigmentation.

It's funny how people blurt out "Your a racist!", so loosely.

Originally posted by Bardock42
I think White Slavery is just as bad as Black Slavery....

Hm. Tall me a little bit more about "white slavery". I've heard about it. enlighten me. Of course I'll find out more about it myself but for now tell me.

Originally posted by Gregory
"White people." "Black people." You know that Africans ("black people"😉 often sold other Africans (also "black people"😉 into slavery, right? Don't be simplistic.

I did know that. But do you think that would've stopped Whites from ripping Blacks from Africa themselves? "Black Slave sellers" or not?C'mon. I think your the one that's being too simple.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Hm. Tall me a little bit more about "white slavery". I've heard about it. enlighten me. Of course I'll find out more about it myself but for now tell me.

Oh well I basically meant that White Slaves are jsut as bad as Black Slaves....Slavery is jsut a very uncool thing overall.

I am a little confused about the title of this thread ''black slavery/white people'' ?

Not all slavery has been implemented by white people on black people.

Besides, white and black is not a dychotomy when it comes to people. You don't just have one or the other. If that was the case, what category would Arabs be in? What about Middle Easteners who are dark enough not to be white and white enough not to be black.

Slavery was not only practiced in America - its still practiced today around third world and people, regardless of their skin pigmentation are being treated extreamly badly.

Also - Social Sciences are ALL about the so called ''race''. Sociaology is all about gender, 'race' and class - From Eurocentralisation to Slavery - its all Sociology.

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I did know that. But do you think that would've stopped Whites from ripping Blacks from Africa themselves? "Black Slave sellers" or not?C'mon. I think your the one that's being too simple.

Who knows. Not you, not me, because nobody knows what would have happened if, hundreds of years ago, people had done something different. It would have probably slowed it down.

God, that picture is awful..

is it comprehensible.....

Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I did know that. But do you think that would've stopped Whites from ripping Blacks from Africa themselves? "Black Slave sellers" or not?C'mon. I think your the one that's being too simple.

Yeah know its just something at the end of the day to tie to whites vs blacks. I certainly don't hear the outcry from black people screaming about black slave owners.