Upside to Slavery?

15 replies · 4074 views · Started by CAN Dancer · Aug 2004

CAN Dancer

I was chillin before class one day and I made a comment about slavery. Then this white guy, someones who fairly intellegent but still very ignorant, stepped in and asked me why black people are so worked up about slavery. He said: It happened in the past and theres nothing we can do about it so we should just move on. Then he said that we should be thankful for slavery because living in North America is so much better than living in Africa right now (he used the example between Canada and SIerra Leone). If it wasnt for slavery half of us would be **** from fighting in wars as child soldiers or just victims or wars and the rest of us would be living in extreme poverty and dying from malnourishment or HIV/****. I said: the reason why Africa is in such turmoil these days is because of the colonisation by Europeans and the fact that slavery had a huge negative impact on the continent because so many villages were devastated. Personally, I was really offended but do u think he has a point? Should we be thankful that slavery brought us here? Just wondering what you guys think of this.

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· Aug 2004

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CAN Dancer wrote:
I was chillin before class one day and I made a comment about slavery. Then this white guy, someones who fairly intellegent but still very ignorant, stepped in and asked me why black people are so worked up about slavery. He said: It happened in the past and theres nothing we can do about it so we should just move on. Then he said that we should be thankful for slavery because living in North America is so much better than living in Africa right now (he used the example between Canada and SIerra Leone). If it wasnt for slavery half of us would be **** from fighting in wars as child soldiers or just victims or wars and the rest of us would be living in extreme poverty and dying from malnourishment or HIV/****. I said: the reason why Africa is in such turmoil these days is because of the colonisation by Europeans and the fact that slavery had a huge negative impact on the continent because so many villages were devastated. Personally, I was really offended but do u think he has a point? Should we be thankful that slavery brought us here? Just wondering what you guys think of this.

you made a very legit point...none of them nasty **** diseases was there until the WHITE MAN came around and just messed things up...we had royalty and all that

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· Aug 2004

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One reason I can't stand white people, they're always bound to say some stupid ****like that. The majority of African countries aren't in a war, less then 2% of all Africans have ****,and not all Africans are living in poverty, there are big cities in Africa with a middle and upper class just like anywhere else but a lot of the poverty and political turmoil in Africa is due to colonialism, the **** trade, neocolonalism and imperialism. There is an upside from slavery, but it was White America who benefited, with all the contributions Black Americans have made to the US.

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prettypoet8804 from Hayward, CA · Aug 2004

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i agree with your point CAN, more than i agree with the white dude's. i have heard that argument before and i never thought it was a legitimate one. if blacks and whites were more balanced in terms of where they live, education, jobs, etc., then i could maybe see his point. but for our ancestors to live through slavery, the civil rights movement, etc., and then for us to live in the twisted times we live in now, i don't see the upside.

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natalie_g · Aug 2004

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CAN Dancer wrote:
I was chillin before class one day and I made a comment about slavery. Then this white guy, someones who fairly intellegent but still very ignorant, stepped in and asked me why black people are so worked up about slavery. He said: It happened in the past and theres nothing we can do about it so we should just move on. Then he said that we should be thankful for slavery because living in North America is so much better than living in Africa right now (he used the example between Canada and SIerra Leone). If it wasnt for slavery half of us would be **** from fighting in wars as child soldiers or just victims or wars and the rest of us would be living in extreme poverty and dying from malnourishment or HIV/****. I said: the reason why Africa is in such turmoil these days is because of the colonisation by Europeans and the fact that slavery had a huge negative impact on the continent because so many villages were devastated. Personally, I was really offended but do u think he has a point? Should we be thankful that slavery brought us here? Just wondering what you guys think of this.

yeah, you did make a good point, since we are in this place the only good thing i can say is that our ancestors built this country and that we got rights for us that started the right's movements and that we had our own education systems: reason for this site and other like it. and I saw that the white people made the disease HIV/**** to go against our biological systems to get rid of us. I say that we educate ourselves and others of our history and try to move forward.

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AfroPoeticSista · Aug 2004

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CAN Dancer wrote:
Then this white guy, said: It happened in the past and theres nothing we can do about it so we should just move on.

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Then he said that we should be thankful for slavery because living in North America is so much better than living in Africa right now

.......da FUKK?

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(he used the example between Canada and SIerra Leone). If it wasnt for slavery half of us would be **** from fighting in wars as child soldiers or just victims or wars and the rest of us would be living in extreme poverty and dying from malnourishment or HIV/****.