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Originally Posted by smoke ya later
are we strictly talking slavery in the United States?
That was the original topic, but it's kind of strayed from there in a few parts.
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Originally Posted by smoke ya later
are we strictly talking slavery in the United States?
ok because it seems like maybe like 1 or 2 people in this thread know any history on the subject. Everyone else is just shouting at the other"I'm right you're wrong" type stuff.Originally Posted by 18key
Originally Posted by smoke ya later
are we strictly talking slavery in the United States?
That was the original topic, but it's kind of strayed from there in a few parts.
Originally Posted by its stanley
too many ignorant posters in here to quote, including the OP
Please, point me in the right direction. Who is enslaved today in America?Originally Posted by 18key
Wow. You're ignorant as hell, aren't you? I'm sure you dont mean that slavery doesnt affect anyone alive today. I mean, not knowing family history isn't a big deal or anything.Originally Posted by baseballer10p
I'm not ashamed. What they did back then had nothing to do with me; obviously I wasn't alive. Hell, my family hadn't even left Poland and Russia yet. And not every white person was a slave owner. Many were against it. It doesn't affect me, or anybody today. What happened back then happened to people who were alive at that point in time. No one in America today has ever been enslaved.
Also, slavery is in full effect these days. Especially in America. Read up on it.
Remember that you don't have to be enslaved physically .Originally Posted by baseballer10p
Please, point me in the right direction. Who is enslaved today in America?Originally Posted by 18key
Wow. You're ignorant as hell, aren't you? I'm sure you dont mean that slavery doesnt affect anyone alive today. I mean, not knowing family history isn't a big deal or anything.Originally Posted by baseballer10p
I'm not ashamed. What they did back then had nothing to do with me; obviously I wasn't alive. Hell, my family hadn't even left Poland and Russia yet. And not every white person was a slave owner. Many were against it. It doesn't affect me, or anybody today. What happened back then happened to people who were alive at that point in time. No one in America today has ever been enslaved.
Also, slavery is in full effect these days. Especially in America. Read up on it.
I have a question for you. What exactly is the point you are trying to make. This post might come off as ignorant because I admit that I onlyskimmed through the last 3 pages and saw that you may have posted the most. So I ask YOU, what is your stance on this?Originally Posted by eNPHAN
Originally Posted by LifeLessons
I stopped reading after this....but went back and read the rest just to be fair...and I have to conclude that your professor in an idiot.Originally Posted by Im Not You
how slavery is portrayed in (recent) books and movies is exaggerated
Working on the fields right next to em eh?
Did they get raped like them?
Forced to reproduce with their own family?
Beat and tortured to death like them?
Chain themselves on boats and sit for weeks in their own excrement?
Exaggerated?
European wealth is practically built on the African Slave Trade.
Like I said earlier...the whole thing is deep beneath the surface. Your professor is right...slavery wasn't how it was portrayed to be in mass media through movies and television. The !%#$ was WORSE. No motion picture or television series will ever fully capture a hell that existed over multiple centuries and still effects a mass group of people today.