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Edwynn -> RE: The African American Community (7/17/2012 1:27:56 AM)
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice
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Anyone else find it perversely entertaining that the thread seems to have evolved into a handful of (so far I know) white folks holding forth about how African Americans should feel about their own history and prospects?
Too bad I can find no 'entertainment' value at all in someone starting a thread on a subject in which he has no clue whatsoever, but rather just wants to socially and publicly wank himself, and expect the rest of us to go along and abide such self indulgence. Almost as funny as clueless white people holding forth about how African Americans should feel about their own history and prospects. Almost.
Lest it escaped notice, that is exactly what the OP proposes.
And no, such hubris and ignorance will not be let off so easily or cavalierly here.
Europeans of the day wanted their sugar and their cotton on the cheap, and in great abundance. The slave trade was the greatest money maker for Europeans, back in the day. Slave owning and slave trade was outlawed in South Carolina until England forced the issue otherwise. The first Dutch boat shipment load of indentured servants to Virginia included black and white people, none of them chattel slaves, just so you know. Of course you didn't know that. The victors write the history. So much money to be made from the trade, and then much 'humanistic' and righteous indignation and political hay to be made from prohibiting slavery where it was not economically feasible to begin with, on the continent or on that weird-shaped island, in whatever home country.
Export immorality, keep the home country sparkling clean, that's how it worked. (But then, Ireland being so close to hand; starve that smaller island nearly to death, decades and centuries before the potato famine, but that's for another day. Who needs Africa to prove 'cultural superiority' else wise when you've got Ireland. And we're still led astray that 'we' were only fighting for purpose of putting down the Popish and Romische Franzoesich ... {Pissed England off greatly that Keltics wrote better than dull wit Brits, greatly ... To this day, how many people know who 'The Orangemen' are? Right ... IRA are the only 'terroriss' here, sorry, don't look elsewhere} Ban the native language and go from there, either case. Nietzsche had it right: cultural superiority is won on the battlefield).
Same thing at work, to this day, 150 yrs. behind the times, as evidenced by the OP. Gott in Himmel, don't acknowledge your own region of the country in their contribution to this matter, whatever you do.
People outside the southern US (other than those who actually reside in the largest cities) see two black people in their life prior to adulthood, if that. But they need a class field trip for the experience. Unless you were in Boston in the '70s, where police escort of buses was required for more than a year, due to parents' throwing bricks at the buses. So, how's it going up there, upstate NY? Massachusetts? Inveterate witch burners? What say you, Europe? Yes, THOSE, all the aforementioned, are the white folks we really need to listen to in this matter, innit? Listen up, black people.
So then, yes, an overabundance of people in the US and in Europe are utterly clueless in the matter. No worries; nothing that inherent hubris and arrogance in which any conjured superiority convolution cannot dispense with whatever simple concept regarding anything not understood, as in any other matter. These are the same people who don't know that droughts are caused by lack of rain, having it in their mind that it is rather due to lack of apple trees.
The children of witch burners, understand.
We're not speaking of brightest bulbs in the lamp, here.
Are we scratching new ground in this or anything?
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