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Play that situation out 10 times and there is a chance you would end up right qhere you started. Be thankful you made it out man. Count your lucky stars
Kanye West: King of the Sunken Place, "Watch the Throne"
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Play that situation out 10 times and there is a chance you would end up right qhere you started. Be thankful you made it out man. Count your lucky stars
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Holocaust and Slavery are too different to compare.
Being systemically broken down was the result of slavery. Hypothetically, if everyone was Nat turner slavery wouldn't exist. I think we're having a hard time looking at the word "choice" in a vacuum.
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People have a hard time choosing the most mundane things on a daily basis yet here they are putting the onus of "choosing" to end slavery on the slaves. I can't believe this ****.
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I disagree
Friends I grew up with that didn't make it out made bad decisions along the way and blamed it on the man..
Did I have to work harder, yes I did. Should it be like that, no. But that doesn't mean I'm not gonna work as hard as I do.
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If everyone was Albert Einstein we'd have flying cars and Star Trek transporters. That's not how the world works though. Less than 1% of the population are extraordinary people.
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If everyone was Nate turner
We would be dead
Slavery was not a ******* choice
Can’t believe this is really
A discussion right now
And not only that
But black folks are arguing
with each other about it
I swear man
We so divided
And dumb
This is why we still in some the the situations
We are in
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Remaining enslaved was. Slavery was not a choice.
and disagreement is not why we're still in some of these situations...Tribalism is
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And just how would u have freed us my good sir
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all this to defend the "fashion icon" Kanye? jesus
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I also love the dismissive crowd typically saying "slavery was long ago, let's stop talking about it" so happy to engage in this "slavery was a choice" conversation.
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If I cared to be a physicist id be albert einstein also. Nat Turner didn't study to be brave and risk himself for the greater good.
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I already stated I wouldn't have done a thing, by choice.
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The definition of slavery is the lack of choice. That's the whole point
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You could strive to be Albert Eienstein, doesn't mean you would be. I'm sure a thousand physicists think they are and we still don't have renewable energy.
Every physicist isn't Eienstein
Every revolutionary isn't Brother Malcolm or Huey Newton
Every General isn't George Patton
...and every slave wasn't Nat Turner or Harriet Tubman
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Sounds like you're completely dismissing the psychological effect of marginalization, stigmatization, and subhumanization.
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Lol you know i’m just arguing about the word choice. The results of that choice is a different conversation
But we can’t even acknowledge that there was a choice of death, torture or freedom
But we can’t even acknowledge that there was a choice of death, torture or freedom
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So I'm assuming you're a top name in fashion?
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im saying people take serious things and make fun of them all the time. this is not a new thingY’all *****s are in this ***** just saying ANYTHINGWhat does this statement mean bro? All stand up comedians joke about slavery? Tell me a classic or popular slave joke your favorite, I’m drawing a blank.
this isn't the thread for you
and why does it have to be my favorite?
why are you being so dense?
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fvumm1/chappelle-s-show--roots--outtakes
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Nothing but himself.
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And what were the risks of trying to obtain freedom? Torture or death. That is assuming slaves even knew what freedom was.
You know freedom to be the right to life, liberty and the "pursuit of happiness". The average slave thought freedom was getting a butter buscuit for good behavior. Until extraordinary individuals (1%) born among them realized that was not what freedom was.
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Y’all *****s are in this ***** just saying ANYTHING
The sketch on Chappelle Show where the haters went back in time was great
Boondocks Story of Catcher Freeman was great too.
Not stand up but still comedy centered around slavery.
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remaining enslaved was a choice?
wow this is why i said ppl really must not know what slavery was
wow this is why i said ppl really must not know what slavery was
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hey bruh...just go to lurking in this thread, save yourself from looking silly from here on out.
