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| The Legacy Of Slavery - White Guilt or White Pride? |
| 2007-11-23 |
| Guy White - According to the politically correct theory that the “Darker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice”, minorities are never to blame for any of their troubles, and whites are the source of all things that are wrong with the world. One of most common myths that people are forced to repeat in the Left’s never-ending quest to humiliate whites at the altar of egalitarianism and multiculturalism is the idea that whites should feel guilty about their legacy of slavery. Many people correctly cite that all the world's nations, and especially the Africans, owned slaves. What most people forget is that whites not only abolished slavery in their own societies, but then went around the world forcing everyone else to abandon the practice. Arabs, who kidnapped and enslaved blacks long before Europeans did, had legalized slavery until the 1980s in two countries – Sudan and Mauritania. Even Egypt had lawful slavery until the 1960s. To this day, the Arabic word for blacks and for slaves is the same – 'abd'. Blacks themselves engaged in slavery and slave trade. The vast majority of blacks taken to Europe and the New World were not enslaved by whites, but rather by their fellow blacks. Nor can whites be held responsible for black-on-black enslavement, as it began long before whites began buying slaves. Blacks were selling slaves to each other, as well as to the Arabs. Even the hero of Amistad, upon winning his freedom, went back to Africa and became a slave-trader. Today, Africans claim that slave trade devastated the continent. Were it true, they themselves would be to blame. But the claim is false. Indeed, it was slave trade that built an empire in West Africa. The only reason slavery ended is the realization by whites that slavery is immoral. If the slave market existed today, we can be sure that blacks participate in slave-ownership and slave trade, as they do when they can - such as forced labor in African gold mines and the kidnapping of children who are turned into child-soldiers for African militias. Back in the United States, the Human Rights Watch published “No Escape” that described slavery, including rape and other severe abuse, in prisons. The majority of slaves are white and the vast majority of slave-owners are black. See Stop Prisoner Rape, very revealing, though this website doesn't dwell on the race issue. Blacks and others do not feel guilty enslaving people, especially those who belong to other races. Only whites do. For white people, the legacy of slavery is not starting the practice, but ending it. It should be the source of pride, not guilt. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #3 Actually I think that if the US never had slavery we probably would have had a wave of immigration from Africa the way we had Europeans, Southern Europeans and Asians. I don't know if that would have changed the music or the number of athletes though. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2007-11-23 21:34 |
| #2 Most Americans can tune in to American sports on the weekend and watch more wealthy blacks than are in the entire continent of Africa. The white guilt program is something the neo-socialist/marxist dreamed up to take power, ignoring that it was the Western world after 4,000 years of human history and experience with slavery that lead the fight to end it. Notice how easily they gloss over those who do continue to engage in the practice. Its a scam much like the Medieval church to extort power and wealth by laying sin upon the masses and then saying only they could release you from it, for a price. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-11-23 13:02 |
| #1 Speaking for myself, this white boy doesn't feel guilt about slavery. My great grandfather didn't own any slaves in Germany and didn't get to the USA until the later 1890's. On the contrary, rather than feel guilt about slavery in the USA I have what may be deemed a perverse take on that "peculiar institution". But for slavery in the USA my life would not have been enriched by the music made at Stax Records and Motown. But for slavery I doubt I'd have never heard from the following people: Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Albert King, Marvinn Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Stevie wonder, Lionel Ritchie, Nat King Cole, Martha Reeves, Diana Ross, Al Green, Tina Turner, Issac Hayes...I could go on but you get the point. If there exists outside the USA anywhere in the world a larger upper and middle class black ethinic group, then someone needs to point it out to me. |
| Posted by: Mark Z 2007-11-23 12:38 |