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Old 11-30-2005, 06:53 AM   #80
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Originally Posted by Pete
Actually the slave trade couldn't have happened without the cooperation of Blacks in africa, it was blacks who captured the slaves in africa and handed them over to europeans in the west african ports. There was plenty of discord in africa before the arrival of the europeans and europe's colonisation of america was made possible by the cooperation if native allies. You only have to consider the numbers of europeans vs the number of africans/natives to realise that 'the white man' didn't create the mess you speak of alone.

Sorry I just kind of sick of the whole 'the white race is solely responsible for all the bad shit thats ever happened ever' stuff.
Yes, rival tribes sold each other off to be slaves, but the colonial folk were playing a game called divide and conquer. Those tribes were all suckered in the end and after colonizaion ended, to this day you still have regions in Africa where tribes still hate each over it (ie. Rwanda).

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At least as a black person you have the right to be proud of your ethnicity, any sort of discussion of what it means to be white (if anything) has been hijacked by the far right
Yes and no. I am proud to be African, and I am proud to be black (they're not one in the same). That said, there are several things I am not so proud of, concerning blacks and Africans. I'll go into detail someone wants, but I'm about to sleep, so it'll have to be tomorrow.

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That being said I have to agree with you 100% about whites having it good, my sister is black and I've sene the bullshit she's been through, getting turned down for jobs and shit and having stuff said to her just because she is the only black face in town pretty much. The thing is, and this is a fucking depressing fact, that if the situations were reversed and blacks were the majority whites would get treated the same becuase most people are too fucking stupid to embrace diversity, you only have to look at places like Birmingham, there are areas where if you aren't asian you are in danger of getting a kicking.

The sooner everyone is the same dull grey colour the better.
Couldn't put it better about the world of grey
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