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When Will America Take Responsibility For Slavery?

When Will America Take Responsibility For Slavery?

When Will America Take Responsibility For Slavery?

July 8, 2008 by brotherpeacemaker

“When are black people going to stop blaming white people for slavery?” – Deb

If white people aren’t responsible for slavery, then who is? I’m not sure what some white people want. Is it some white people’s contention that white people are not responsible for slavery? Is it some white people’s contention that they have done enough to undo all the damage done to the black community during , the same damage that continues to manifest itself in the black community today, that they no longer deserve a finger pointed in their direction?

A lot of people make shortsighted statements like no white person alive ever owned a black person and no black person alive has ever been a slave. That little statement might be true. But nevertheless, the black community has never been properly compensated for the unequal treatment that it suffered through America’s institutionalized slavery or through the era of blatant racism that continued long after a law was passed to subject the black community to its substandard status.

Slavery ended years ago. But the conditions that were caused by institutionalized slavery, where the white community enriched itself by not compensating black people for their labor, where the white community could establish programs to educate its population while the education of the black population was neglected, where members of the white community were allowed to accumulate wealth and pass that wealth down from one generation to another, where the black community in general was not allowed to participate in the accumulation of wealth and had nothing to pass down through its generations, continue to exist today.

When will black people stop blaming white people for slavery? I’m sorry but white people are solely responsible for America’s era of institutionalized slavery. I know some people like to promote the idea that black people were capturing other black people and putting them on those slave ships. But it was white people who established that trade with black people and it was white people who sailed those ships across the middle passage. It was white people who enriched themselves in the trade of black people. It was white people who packed black people like sardines into the bowels of slave ships, where black people had to defecate on themselves and each other, making it easier for disease to spread and infect everyone within the hold. It was white people who would toss black people over the rail like a sack of dirt, into the waiting arms of the ocean, when one of the pieces of cargo got sick.

It was white people who created the market of supply and demand that led to America’s institutionalized slavery. It was white people paying for black people at auction. It was white people who kept black people in rickety shacks and on sustenance unfit for white people’s consumption. It was white people that kept black people from learning. It was white people who broke up black families.

It was white people who put laws in government books that made it legal to consider black people nothing more than white people’s property. It was white people who passed laws making it legal to consider black people only three fifths human. It was white people who stood idly by while other white people would whip an enslave black a person within an inch of his or her life. It was white people who were willing to look the other way as black women were raped at the white man’s whim. It was white people who invited other white people like Willy Lynch to develop processes to separate black people from their land, from their families, from their community, from each other, from their culture, from their spirituality, and from any hope that they would ever return home and any hope to be made whole again.

I know there are many who would prefer to absolve the racially generic dominant community that just so happens to be predominantly white of any and all responsibilities for the condition of the black community. But the simple fact is that the white community worked for generations to destroy black people, the black family unit, and the black community. And after America came to its senses and realized that this blatant form of racial discrimination was in fact cruel and intolerable, it was white people who spread the myth that just passing a law to make slavery and racial subjugation illegal was all it took to make restitution to the black community. White people who worked so hard to subject black people did nothing to restore black people. Slavery was white people’s fault and no one else’s. White people were the ones who benefited the most from slavery. Black people were the ones who suffered the most under slavery.

Hey, everybody who was alive during that time is now dead so no one is obligated to do anything to repair the damage that white people have caused. More of the dominant community’s propaganda. The hijackers of the planes that terrorized America on September 11, 2001 died with their passengers and with all the other people who were killed. But that didn’t stop America from taking her wrath out on the Taliban and the rest of Afghanistan. America even held Iraq partially responsible even though the evidence against Saddam Hussein was transparent to a blind man. The perpetrators and the victims were both dead. Yet, America is still there, six years later with four thousand dead troops and a trillion dollar bill for war to show for it.

White people will hold fast to the idea that they’ve done enough to repair the damage to the black community. Black people have welfare, isn’t that enough? If anyone were to ever take an honest look at what race benefits the most from welfare he or she will see that white people are, once again, the biggest benefactors of the various welfare programs. Trust me, if black people were the ones benefiting the most from the welfare programs they would have been terminated a long time ago.

When will black people stop blaming white people for slavery? I’m sorry but white people are responsible for those pages in the America’s history book. The idea that we can change the history of slavery if we stop looking at it is a popular one among many who wish to protect the status quo. The proper question a lot of people should be asking is, when will America take responsibility for the damage it caused, and continues to cause, the black community?
July 8, 2008 by brotherpeacemaker

“When are black people going to stop blaming white people for slavery?” – Deb

If white people aren’t responsible for slavery, then who is? I’m not sure what some white people want. Is it some white people’s contention that white people are not responsible for slavery? Is it some white people’s contention that they have done enough to undo all the damage done to the black community during , the same damage that continues to manifest itself in the black community today, that they no longer deserve a finger pointed in their direction?

A lot of people make shortsighted statements like no white person alive ever owned a black person and no black person alive has ever been a slave. That little statement might be true. But nevertheless, the black community has never been properly compensated for the unequal treatment that it suffered through America’s institutionalized slavery or through the era of blatant racism that continued long after a law was passed to subject the black community to its substandard status.

Slavery ended years ago. But the conditions that were caused by institutionalized slavery, where the white community enriched itself by not compensating black people for their labor, where the white community could establish programs to educate its population while the education of the black population was neglected, where members of the white community were allowed to accumulate wealth and pass that wealth down from one generation to another, where the black community in general was not allowed to participate in the accumulation of wealth and had nothing to pass down through its generations, continue to exist today.

When will black people stop blaming white people for slavery? I’m sorry but white people are solely responsible for America’s era of institutionalized slavery. I know some people like to promote the idea that black people were capturing other black people and putting them on those slave ships. But it was white people who established that trade with black people and it was white people who sailed those ships across the middle passage. It was white people who enriched themselves in the trade of black people. It was white people who packed black people like sardines into the bowels of slave ships, where black people had to defecate on themselves and each other, making it easier for disease to spread and infect everyone within the hold. It was white people who would toss black people over the rail like a sack of dirt, into the waiting arms of the ocean, when one of the pieces of cargo got sick.

It was white people who created the market of supply and demand that led to America’s institutionalized slavery. It was white people paying for black people at auction. It was white people who kept black people in rickety shacks and on sustenance unfit for white people’s consumption. It was white people that kept black people from learning. It was white people who broke up black families.

It was white people who put laws in government books that made it legal to consider black people nothing more than white people’s property. It was white people who passed laws making it legal to consider black people only three fifths human. It was white people who stood idly by while other white people would whip an enslave black a person within an inch of his or her life. It was white people who were willing to look the other way as black women were raped at the white man’s whim. It was white people who invited other white people like Willy Lynch to develop processes to separate black people from their land, from their families, from their community, from each other, from their culture, from their spirituality, and from any hope that they would ever return home and any hope to be made whole again.

I know there are many who would prefer to absolve the racially generic dominant community that just so happens to be predominantly white of any and all responsibilities for the condition of the black community. But the simple fact is that the white community worked for generations to destroy black people, the black family unit, and the black community. And after America came to its senses and realized that this blatant form of racial discrimination was in fact cruel and intolerable, it was white people who spread the myth that just passing a law to make slavery and racial subjugation illegal was all it took to make restitution to the black community. White people who worked so hard to subject black people did nothing to restore black people. Slavery was white people’s fault and no one else’s. White people were the ones who benefited the most from slavery. Black people were the ones who suffered the most under slavery.

Hey, everybody who was alive during that time is now dead so no one is obligated to do anything to repair the damage that white people have caused. More of the dominant community’s propaganda. The hijackers of the planes that terrorized America on September 11, 2001 died with their passengers and with all the other people who were killed. But that didn’t stop America from taking her wrath out on the Taliban and the rest of Afghanistan. America even held Iraq partially responsible even though the evidence against Saddam Hussein was transparent to a blind man. The perpetrators and the victims were both dead. Yet, America is still there, six years later with four thousand dead troops and a trillion dollar bill for war to show for it.

White people will hold fast to the idea that they’ve done enough to repair the damage to the black community. Black people have welfare, isn’t that enough? If anyone were to ever take an honest look at what race benefits the most from welfare he or she will see that white people are, once again, the biggest benefactors of the various welfare programs. Trust me, if black people were the ones benefiting the most from the welfare programs they would have been terminated a long time ago.

When will black people stop blaming white people for slavery? I’m sorry but white people are responsible for those pages in the America’s history book. The idea that we can change the history of slavery if we stop looking at it is a popular one among many who wish to protect the status quo. The proper question a lot of people should be asking is, when will America take responsibility for the damage it caused, and continues to cause, the black community?
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Stop Blaming The Rapist/Oppressor/Enemy!!!

My title is a bit of sarcasm, once while giving a lecture on the history of Global White Supremacy, a young Aryan said something interesting. He stated that "...we would not have bought slaves if there were not product to sell!" Of course I pounced upon his illogical reasoning and need to make an excuse, with my usual charming sarcasm and machete like wit! I stated before this audience of mostly Aryans, some Asians and a few Afrikans (who until then didn't realize they were Afrikan), that this is the same reasoning used in rape cases. You will find that the rapist goes on trial and is made to appear as if she caused the lust to arise in the man who raped her. I stated to the audience that his reasoning was based on the belief in the absolute superiority of men over women and in this case Aryans over Afrikans! Dispensing with the niceties, I quickly reasoned with the audience that this type of thought blames the victim of rape for the rape because she was cute or wore a short dress. It also reasons that the victims of mass murder, lynching, tarring and feathering, rape, enslavement, whipping, starvation, disease were to blame for these horrors.

We must find these arguments and clear it up in the minds of our people that you are not the blame for the initial condition but you are the means by which that condition can be eliminated. These Aryans that use these excuses that you have mentioned are saying that they in no part are to bear their fathers burdens. Although each person must bear his own Ankh, As we must deal with the legacy as the enslaved, these punks have to deal with the legacy of the enslaver. They also refuse to acknowledge their current part in the continued economic and political oppression and in many cases physical oppression of our people. They refuse to deal with their intellectually brutal form of education, their continued repression of decent healthcare for our elders, etc. ad nauseum! Their refusal to accept these factors are a part and parcel of their arrogant perception of themselves in relation to what Dr. Marimba Ani refers to as the "...cultural other..."

The Aryan cannot except blame for that would indicate an ability to care, an ability to love, an ability to actually show remorse. Our history indicates his pyschosis, our history should show us his true intention and frame of mind. He isdomineering in his approach to the world, he does not recognize wrong on his part, he cannot, his mind is the mind of a conqueror, he shall not lose. He does not believe he can be wrong, he only shifts position for a better kill. Unless we grasp this many of us will be fooled by these ridiculous excuses and ill proposed streams of logic. He is and always acts like the enemy at all times in all places and with everything he says we must see the poison!
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African enslavement was a collaborative institution, it was too big to be the work of just one group of people. In Africa when tribes went to war with each other, members of the losing tribe could become slaves. But white people were really no different when it came to enslaving their brethren - the Romans enslaved many of their neighbors whom they conquered, and were known to even tie some of their prisoners to the backs of chariots and drag them back to Rome.

But things changed as time went on and the enslavement of whites was prohibited. When that happened they targeted Africans as their source of free labor and that's when slavery became a racial thing. But the jews also played a big role in slavery, probably the biggest role, and I don't believe that they should be let off the hook either. As Dr. Tony Martin pointed out, the Africans admit that they were involved in the slave trade, and white people admit that they were involved in it, but the jew has been universally dismissed Scott Free. I would suggest Tony Martin's book, 'The Jewish Onslaught' for any open minded intellectual or Farrakhan's 'The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews'.

On a more relevant note though, I am very concerned with the enslavement of black people that is going on in some remote parts of South America and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black children in Africa today. Their enslavement is certainly the most urgent and even if you're not rich like Oprah Winfrey you can still spread awareness because a lot of people don't know that it's happening today.
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On a more relevant note though, I am very concerned with the enslavement of black people that is going on in some remote parts of South America and the enslavement and sexual exploitation of black children in Africa today. Their enslavement is certainly the most urgent and even if you're not rich like Oprah Winfrey you can still spread awareness because a lot of people don't know that it's happening today.
On this matter I have done several bits of work in the way of lectures and fundraising on the issue! Yes indeed this is very serious!!!!

The Europeans who practice Judaism of course have blood on their hands as well, the issue has been visited before, but perhaps the brave souls like you and I and others can bring the matter into the light, but with more proactive movements! Perhaps they can be brought in as part of the variant reparations movements across the planet. We can also bring economic boycott to these companies they own as they are a part of their efforts to maintain world domination! So many things can be done lets just do a thing!
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On this matter I have done several bits of work in the way of lectures and fundraising on the issue! Yes indeed this is very serious!!!!
That's very commendable.

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The Europeans who practice Judaism of course have blood on their hands as well, the issue has been visited before, but perhaps the brave souls like you and I and others can bring the matter into the light, but with more proactive movements! Perhaps they can be brought in as part of the variant reparations movements across the planet. We can also bring economic boycott to these companies they own as they are a part of their efforts to maintain world domination! So many things can be done lets just do a thing!
There were so many nations that took part in the slave trade it's impractical to believe that they'll all pay up, but I think that the jews should at least acknowledge their prominent role in the slave trade and jews like Steven Spielberg should stop making movies like Amistad, which sweeps the Jewish involvement under the rug.

The jews have gotten billions in 'Holocaust' reparations and the 'Holocaust' has never even been proven. But they'll never willingly give back one dime to the black community because they know that with their legal power and media control they stand a good chance at winning. What they don't consider is that once the 'Holocaust' myth is universally accepted as a myth; their shield is gone. They still say that they're owed $175 billion in reparations and they've already received around $33 billion. According to their 'economists', in the late 1930's 2.4 million jews had assets of $10-$15 billion, which would be $145-$215 billion by today's standards. If 2.4 million jews had assets of that value in the 1930's, which could very well be true, the only thing they're proving is Hitler's point : the jews are usurious leeches that suck the poor people dry.

I totally agree with the boycotting of certain organizations, especially the jew-owned BET. There's an episode of the Boondocks about BET (Black Evil Television) where Huey boycott's that so-called 'Black Entertainment' channel, but we need to make it a reality.
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My title is a bit of sarcasm, once while giving a lecture on the history of Global White Supremacy, a young Aryan said something interesting. He stated that "...we would not have bought slaves if there were not product to sell!" Of course I pounced upon his illogical reasoning and need to make an excuse, with my usual charming sarcasm and machete like wit! I stated before this audience of mostly Aryans, some Asians and a few Afrikans (who until then didn't realize they were Afrikan), that this is the same reasoning used in rape cases. You will find that the rapist goes on trial and is made to appear as if she caused the lust to arise in the man who raped her. I stated to the audience that his reasoning was based on the belief in the absolute superiority of men over women and in this case Aryans over Afrikans! Dispensing with the niceties, I quickly reasoned with the audience that this type of thought blames the victim of rape for the rape because she was cute or wore a short dress. It also reasons that the victims of mass murder, lynching, tarring and feathering, rape, enslavement, whipping, starvation, disease were to blame for these horrors.

We must find these arguments and clear it up in the minds of our people that you are not the blame for the initial condition but you are the means by which that condition can be eliminated. These Aryans that use these excuses that you have mentioned are saying that they in no part are to bear their fathers burdens. Although each person must bear his own Ankh, As we must deal with the legacy as the enslaved, these punks have to deal with the legacy of the enslaver. They also refuse to acknowledge their current part in the continued economic and political oppression and in many cases physical oppression of our people. They refuse to deal with their intellectually brutal form of education, their continued repression of decent healthcare for our elders, etc. ad nauseum! Their refusal to accept these factors are a part and parcel of their arrogant perception of themselves in relation to what Dr. Marimba Ani refers to as the "...cultural other..."

The Aryan cannot except blame for that would indicate an ability to care, an ability to love, an ability to actually show remorse. Our history indicates his pyschosis, our history should show us his true intention and frame of mind. He isdomineering in his approach to the world, he does not recognize wrong on his part, he cannot, his mind is the mind of a conqueror, he shall not lose. He does not believe he can be wrong, he only shifts position for a better kill. Unless we grasp this many of us will be fooled by these ridiculous excuses and ill proposed streams of logic. He is and always acts like the enemy at all times in all places and with everything he says we must see the poison!
using the word aryan only buys into the nazi myth that white people are a master race. you can study it for yourself but look into the word aryan as it relates to iran. i just call them white people.
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