first off, you being a white man, your argument for the plight of black people is completely invalid, as you have never lived, known, been a relative of, or historically can recall family history of black enslavement.
No, you're right, I can't recall a family history of "Black enslavement". I can go back and see that my people too were enslaved, they just weren't black.
"If Queen Elizabeth I had lived in the 20th Century. she would have been viewed with the same horror as Hitler and Stalin. Her policy of Irish genocide was pursued with such evil zest it boggles the mind of modern men. But Elizabeth was only setting the stage for the even more savage program that was to follow her, directed specifically to exterminate the Irish. James II and Charles I continued Elizabeth’s campaign, but Cromwell almost perfected it. Few people in modern so-called “civilized history” can match the horrors of Cromwell in Ireland. It is amazing what one man can do to his fellow man under the banner that God sanctions his actions!"
I'm Italian/Irish, and I can tell you directly, that Irish are known as the blacks of Europe. We may not be black, but I can go back and show you shit just like the quote above. Just like the Germans exterminated Jews, people everywhere (even IN Ireland), wanted to exterminate the Irish. We weren't called slaves, it was sugar coated and my people were called INDENTURED SERVANTS! It was usually 3 to 7 years of work, but other than that aspect, it wasn't much different. That was in THIS country though, that's not going back to the issues in Europe. I won't even get into all that though, because you're RIGHT. ONLY BLACK FOLKS UNDERSTAND ENSLAVEMENT AND MISTREATMENT!
secondly, an argument in power when were talking about slavery is completely off topic. you went from talking about blacks not being affected by slavery, to saying that his parents had power. what the fuck does that mean as a black man? can you honestly answer that to me? have you ever been a black man, have you grown up black?
I started by saying Barack Obama was not affected by slavery, and if he was, it was because his family was involved in the slave trade. I then got attacked and I didn't know what I was talking about because I'm not black, and I "don't understand". What the fuck ever. That's where my argument started, other folks brought the fact that I'm white into it and made that the argument. So really, I was going back to my original argument.
third, you KNOWING AFRICANS DOES NOT MEAN SHIT and is the biggest cop out white people come up with when it comes to these talks. so all the sudden you just soaked up a lifetimes worth of blackness because you had a race convo? HA!
You wanted me to give you proof that it didn't affect black people that weren't slaves, so I did. It's not valid because it's being passed on to you by a white dude? I didn't say I soaked up a lifetime of anything. I just remember a conversation I had with a couple African cats, and they brought this shit up...I listened, soaked it up, and found it quite interesting.
if you think slavery didnt effect africans, africa, and the entire world, you, and your african friends are ignorant as fuck and should be beheaded, and have your heads dumped in vacant lots.
imo.
Nice. Tell that to the Africans that don't give a fuck about American slavery. I didn't say it, I just passed it on. And if you think that black people are the only people on this big fucking planet we call Earth that know oppression, slavery, hard times, etc....then I expect your head to be sitting right next to mine.
