I believe that you missed everything that I said.
I remember watching a program about a decade and a half ago about how Middle-Class Blacks also fled the cities leaving poor Blacks behind, and what this fostered and often festered was a really horrible situation where it was difficult for young Black men to find role models. The program, which was on PBS at the time, was written and produced by a Black man.
Then you have the situation of men like Al Sharpton who abused the situation in order to gain power. There are numerous incidents where Sharpton played on Black victimhood in order to raise his status, sometimes even creating incidents in order to further his own agenda. These often backfired in the long run hurting the Black Communities he claimed to represent, but rarely hurting him.
Now, having pointed that out to you, as I said, that was the minor issue. That’s something that Bill Cosby and Aaron McGruder have tried to point out among others, and usually been shouted down by people like Sharpton.
NOW…the slave trade out of Africa was largely created due to a belief, based on some facts, that Native Americans made poor slaves. This was largely due to the fact that Native Americans were susceptible to European diseases while Africans were not. African slaves were brought over in deplorable conditions, usually crammed into ships which did not typically allow them much movement or much in the way of sustenance. IF the crew of the ship saw that someone died in their berth, they may have thrown them overboard. But not always. Hot tar was used to seal up wounds that festered on these trips.
Now, skip to the post-war era. Following the Civil War, White former slave owners were desperate to try and reenslave as many people as they could in order to work the plantations. This lead to a variety of measures including harsh anti-vagrancy laws which were often used to round up Blacks whether or not they had a home and force them to work as criminals on chain gangs. This was Constitutional thanks to the wording of the Thirteenth Amendment, and has morphed into what we have today with the private prison system in the country.
Laws were passed, of course, which included pole taxes and literacy tests designed to stop Blacks from voting. If a Black person voted, they could usually expect a visit from their local KKK chapter. In 1919, a Black WWI veteran dared to vote in a Georgia election and was found the next day hanging from a tree with his house little more than a cinder. According to local reports, the veteran met his end with dignity and courage. Additionally, the founder of one of the oldest Black owned newspapers in Georgia was gunned down for daring to open a newspaper.
Would you like me to go on? Would you like me to talk about how in Chicago in 1950 there were protests over attempts to move the local schools out of the neighborhoods and away from the children? Or about the issues that Blacks faced in Vermont?
I am well versed in our nation’s history. Simply because I refuse to ignore the internal problems within the Black Community does not mean that I am a racist or that I agree with Stein. I can also explain to you how the serf system lead to the slave system which lead to wage slavery and what we have today. And about how the man who defended segregated schools in the South actually believed in desegregation. You see, what I’m talking about is stuff that I’ve learned by paying attention over the last thirty years.
But, by all means, tell me again how stupid I am.
