Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Ok. But do you mean "we're all reading" unless KMC has VOip nobody's told me about. (damn you all, no one ever tells me anything) But I digress.
Right.
The topics that can be branched from the thread title, "Black Slaves / White People (bs/wp) could be:1. Bs/wp anywhere in the Modern world.
Unless you live in a cave, you know this already. There are no black slaves, white people scenarios in the world today. Or, if you did find some, post a link to material. Otherwise, let's not waste time.
2. Bs/wp mentality in the U.S today.
What mentality? There's no black slaves today. There's not even people who can remember slavery. Point is moot.
3. Bs/wp -pre U.S.- anywhere in the world.
Check the Caribbean. Haiti, Jamaica, etc. But why does Chris Rock have anything to do with this?
4. Bs/wp: What the process was from catching a slave all the way to having him work.
Black tribes fight. Losers taken captive and sold to European traders for work in the New World. They arrive at the dock (Those who survive) and are sold.
Source? Grade school level text book. Why do we need to discuss this already known topic?
5. What would've been the best alternative whites could've conjured opposite to black slavery. Our economy is 100X better now without than it was when there were slaves.
Firstly, Native Americans were the original slave labor. They suffered a virtual extinction of their way of life and more than half of their numbers. They still haven't recovered from being displaced, murdered, and left with nowhere to go. Let's see a sypathy thread on that. Black people get black history month, BET, MLK Junior highways in every major city, affirmative action, and get to play the Race Card every time they don't get the part or job. Native Americans get... free education and rights to casinos.
Right.
6. Bs/wp: Will history repeat itself. Now not but maybe later? Or is it impossible.
Foolish. You'll see human sacrifice make a comeback before black slavery, pal. The indoctrination of how immoral slavery was is so prevalent that the idea of taking away individual rights is downright repulsive, no matter the color or creed.
7. Bs/wp: What lesson has been learn if any at all?
Pay attention in grade school. This was covered every year. More people know of Uncle Tom's Cabin then Machiavelli's The Prince or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason.
8. Bs/wp: What was it like being a slave and/or a slave master.
Go to the library and find material. Though that's a tough one since few slaves learned to read and write, and I doubt few masters kept orderly journals worth reading.
9. Poll: bs/wp - Did it have to happen? Yes-No?
No. Hiroshima didn't either. Or the Crusades. Or Vietnam. Are we supposed to do something about it?
10. Bs/wp: Reparations.
None neccessary. No living person suffered under slavery in the US. Why should any living black people in the US today receive money as "compensation" for something that didn't happen to them? With that kind of mentality, I should get money for when my great great great grandfather was forced to be an indentured servant.
11. Bs/wp and religion.
Specify? Relevance to Chris Rock?
12. Bs/wp and the laws (back then)
Grade school text book.
Again, what are you after? Are you trying to increase awareness of perhaps one of the most well known topics in modern society? Or are you trying to antagonize and promote racial tension and alienation of something that happened before ANY of us were born?