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It never ended, it just became the prison industry. The Jim Crow laws made sure of that.
Douglas Blackman wrote a book about this that won a pulitzer. It's actually a really easy read and delves into detail about sharecropping and prison labor. It's absolutely heartbreaking what people did to the freed slaves.
[Slavery by another name] (https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525272338&sr=8-1&keywords=douglas+blackman)
The paper was primarily focused on Mississippi and Alabama during the period immediately following the Civil War to 1900. Since it isn't published in a journal or theoretically available outside of my school, I'm not particularly comfortable with providing the text.
I would recommend two books, they're very well written, and really do focus very specifically on the topic of Black Codes and the Pig Laws.
http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462423372&sr=8-1&keywords=Slavery+by+Another+Name
and
http://www.amazon.com/Worse-than-Slavery-Parchman-Justice/dp/0684830957?ie=UTF8&psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=od_aui_detailpages00
If you were to pick only one, I would read "Worse Than Slavery."
Here's some reading for you.
And ignoring the oversimplified and outright false accusation that "so many black men abandon their children", what else is wrong? You learn how to be a father from your father. And if your father didn't have the opportunity to learn from his father because they were property? Well, there's another difficulty, isn't there? And it's a difficulty that's not going to go away in one generation in the best of circumstances.
And why is it so far away from being "the best of circumstances"? Well, you could read Slavery by Another Name and The New Jim Crow to see how slavery actually lasted well past its abolishment and how the for-profit prison complex is preventing black people from simply "working past it". It's really such a complicated, horrible web... It's too much for me to try to discuss in one post.
But put simply: No other enslaved group, not the Irish, not the Japanese, not any other group of people has faced the same level of obstruction while attempting to rise up to equality. And if you think that these issues aren't part of the cause rather than the result of crime and drug use and poverty which results in black fathers being taken from their families... well, you're wrong.
>this is silly. By this logic, Africans have the sole right to dominate the world.
Then why do Whites keep yapping about made-up Tibetan genocides and other bullshit? You realize how idiotic white people look when they're talking about "their lands"
http://i.imgur.com/WyRZmaH.jpg
 
>We do want it to be a friendly competition though.
You do not speak for your history or your leaders. Whether you realize this or not (I think you don't, your race as a whole is insanely aggressive and racist)
http://nypost.com/2014/01/05/us-is-the-greatest-threat-to-world-peace-poll/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/a-timeline-of-cia-atrocities/5348804
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Hope-C-I-Interventions-II--Updated/dp/1567512526/
http://www.amazon.com/Overthrow-Americas-Century-Regime-Change/dp/0805082409/
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/
Native Indians
● http://www.amazon.com/Bury-My-Heart-Wounded-Knee/dp/0805086846/
 
Blacks
● http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/
 
Cambodia
http://www.amazon.com/Sideshow-Kissinger-Nixon-Destruction-Cambodia/dp/0671835254/
 
Laos
Hiding America’s War Crimes in Laos | http://thiscantbehappening.net/node/2715
 
Vietnam
● http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Anything-That-Moves-American/dp/1250045061/
● http://www.amazon.com/Phoenix-Program-Americas-Forbidden-Bookshelf-ebook/dp/B00KGMIW6Q/
 
Korea
● http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-Korean-1950-1951-Nonconformist/dp/0316817708/
 
Philippines
● http://www.amazon.com/Benevolent-Assimilation-American-Philippines-1899-1903/dp/0300030819/
 
China
● China’s Rise, Fall, and Re-Emergence as a Global Power | http://dissidentvoice.org/2012/03/chinas-rise-fall-and-re-emergence-as-a-global-power/
● USA’s warfare against China ½ | http://www.voltairenet.org/article177063.html
 
That was only USA.
 
>developing a multi-racial coalition to compete against whites.
Why are you surprised?
When Blacks march peacefully, you leaders unleash attack dogs on them. When they finally get to vote, a "mysterious" drug epidemic destroys their areas. If your group would stop being such dicks, these people wouldn't even need a coalition. Look at the context - always. These angry people don't come from haunted houses.
 
>we have a lot of work to do in waking our people up to the nature of group conflict
You are retarded. You have entire international organizations mean to rape and pillage colored nations. ICC = International Caucasian Court. Why haven't USA war crimes (there are dozens) ever been punished? Here's the latest and greatest https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RC1Mepk_Sw Why aren't there movements to free Australia, NZ, Canada, America, Hawaii, Guam, etc but a bunch of bs about freeing Tibet?
IMF and World bank http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Economic-Hit-John-Perkins/dp/0452287081/
Anglo five eyes - that's right. five WHITE nations lurking like perverts and peering into everyone's bedrooms.
 
>You keep calling us "racist", which frankly I don't mind, but the implication seems to be that you're not racist, which is ridiculous. We're both doing the same thing, engaging in group competition for the advancement of our groups. Don't believe the leftist lies that you have the moral high ground against the evil white man. Frankly, I think you're better than that.
Tell me. Would you want to switch places with "just as evil Asians" and live in BOTH the West and the East? Where's your centuries long list of war crime committed against whites by "just the same as Whites" Asians? Not one of you would switch places with Asians in either countries. Stop making false equivalences.
 
>Europe has been the home of depraved brutality, as well as of intense beauty. I accept it all.
Good. I can respect that.
>To your last point, indentured servitude is not slavery. The idea is that you have a debt which you pay off through work directly for a person. Slavery is the absence of wages and freedom but being required to work. An indentured servant is paid a wage and generally has freedom outside of their job.
In real history, that distinction is not as sharp as you seem to think. "Indentured Servitude" has very often been slavery in everything but name. This has been true globally, though the book I linked focuses on the US.
> All slaves have died, all of those who owned or directly, socioeconomically benefitted from the slave trade have died, and all ancient American companies have ceased slave labor.
Here is what I meant, and why I think your statement quoted above is not true: Blacks were put into debt slavery up until the second world war. That's only 75 years ago. A fascinating read is Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II.
> these genuine problems aren't exactly being approached the right way by the Democrats, historically the party of the minority voter.
Absolutely true and for the last fifty years, neither party has done well. Specifically Mr. Clinton made awful policy choices for Blacks in America with his "tough on crime" choices like three-strikes and mandatory sentencing. "Tough on crime" is a popular message that both sides of the aisle espouse.
Here's another great book on that topic:
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
This reminds me of a book that I'm looking forward to reading. It's called Slavery by Another Name and it's by Douglas A. Blackmon.
Must reads:
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385722702/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_B0KwDbBN2MT7W
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness https://www.amazon.com/dp/1595586431/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_50KwDb9M4ECGM
This might be closer to your search. The book Slavery By Another Name does a phenomenal job of describing the ways in which the status quo of Southern society and political life were restored closely following Reconstruction. The book places a lot of weight on Plessy v. Ferguson, arguing that Southern whites took the decision to mean that the North had gotten fed up with policing the South. To this day, most Southern states have Constitutions that were re-written in the years following Plessy. Legal codes were revised in a manner that created a practice the author considers to be debt slavery. http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
African American men were required to keep papers on them at all times indicating they were employed. If a black man were caught without his papers, he was arrested for vagrancy and put in jail overnight. The next day, he would receive a guilty verdict and a small fine. The fine was augmented by charges for the sheriff's time, the night in jail, the defense attorney, the prosecuting attorney, and the general court costs. These fines and fees would total hundreds of dollars at a time when even a middle-class person could expect to earn very little.
The man was then informed that he must pay the fees and fines immediately or else be jailed for contempt of court...and have additional fines added on. At this time, a "benevolent" white land owner would always appear and "volunteer" to pay the fine in exchange for a legally-binding agreement to work the debt off on the man's farm.
Upon arriving at the farm, the man was placed in precisely the structures that previously housed slaves and given the same agricultural work, complete with overseers authorized to beat slaves into submission.
A final twist increased the amount of the man's obligation by the cost of his quarters, his meals, his work clothes, and the tools he used. The debt would grow at a rate that was impossible to ever repay, so most black men in the post-Reconstruction era found themselves back in debt slavery for the rest of their lives.
The author notes that this debt slavery was more pernicious than actual slavery because it employed credit. A slave owner prior to the war was required to front considerable capital to buy a slave. Slaves were capital goods, so discipline was restrained by the need to keep the slave able to work. Debt slaves after the war, however, were "purchased" for the amount of their fine (and records are unclear regarding whether the white landowners ever actually paid the fines they assumed on behalf of the black men). Because the upfront investment was much smaller, and because the man could easily be replaced by another small debt purchase, the landowners no longer had any financial motive to treat the debt slaves with even the slightest degree of care. This is illustrated in the book Lay This Body Down, the account of a debt slaver who tossed eleven black men chained to rocks into his mill pond (after church on Sunday) because he learned that Federal inspectors were coming by the next day to ensure debt slavery was not occurring. http://www.amazon.com/Lay-This-Body-Down-Plantation/dp/1556524471/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1427315802&sr=1-1&keywords=lay+this+body+down
The author notes the practice continued until WWII, when the manufacturing needs of the US grew so dramatically that black men were needed on assembly lines and the debt slavery practice couldn't profitably continue. The conclusion based on available records suggests that, practically speaking, slavery continued in the southern US until around 1942.
"From 2000 to 2010, the number of inmates kept in private prisons rose nearly 50%, from 87,000 to 128,000. While this amounts to less than 10% of all prisoners nationwide, it represents a serious trend toward privatization as budget-squeezed states look for ways to cut costs."
source: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/06/28/why-private-prisons-will-lock-up-your-returns/
The real problem is when you look at the lobbying money that private prison companies are dumping in Washington and state capitals. For example these corporations are one of the largest advocates of maintaining or increasing in severity current drug laws.
"How much? A bundle. In the past five election cycles, the three biggest companies in the private prison industry have contributed $835,514 to federal candidates and $6,092,331 to state politicians. Democrats received 31.8 percent of the money, Republicans got 59.1 percent, and 8.7 percent went to ballot measures, according to the institute.
Lobbying is a big part of the industry’s approach. CCA had 41 lobbyists in just three states—Tennessee, Nevada and Florida—from 2003 to 2010. The institute found it impossible to track all the money spent on lobbying at the state level by these companies as a consequence of widely differing disclosure laws. With the arrival of the Citizens United ruling, that task will not become easier.
The “revolving door” also benefits the private prison industry, with many former government officials joining prison companies the same way ex-colonels and ex-generals join the weapons industry upon retirement, and for the same reason: influence among their former colleagues."
source: http://motleynews.net/2011/06/26/new-stats-out-private-prison-populations-up-120-lobbyists-paying-6-million-to-state-officials/
The real problem is a situation is arising where the corporations profit from incarcerating people, and then use that money to influence politicians to craft laws which incarcerate more and more people. This is eerily familiar to the era of neo-slavery that stretched from the post Civil War era until WWII. During this time many southern states passed laws so you could arrest blacks for almost anything, and then they were "leased" to people. "The lease (essentially the sale) of convicts to commercial interests between the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th. Usually, the criminal offense was loosely defined vagrancy or even changing employers without permission. The initial sentence was brutal enough; the actual penalty, reserved almost exclusively for black men, was a form of slavery in one of hundreds of forced labor camps operated by state and county governments, large corporations, small time entrepreneurs and provincial farmers."
source: http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
Some statistics on the two largest private prison corporations.
"Corrections Corporation of America
66: number of facilities owned and operated by Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s largest private prison company based on number of facilities
91,000: number of beds available in CCA facilities across 20 states and the District of Columbia
$1.7 billion: total revenue recorded by CCA in 2011
$17.4 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 10 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$1.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$3.7 million: executive compensation for CEO Damon T. Hininger in 2011
132: recorded number of inmate-on-inmate assaults at CCA-run Idaho Correctional Center between Sept. 2007 and Sept. 2008
42: recorded number of inmate-on-inmate assaults at the state-run Idaho State Correctional Institution in the same time frame (both prisons at the time held about 1,500 inmates)
The Geo Group, Inc., the U.S.’s second largest private detention company
$1.6 billion: total revenue in year 2011, according to its annual report
65: number of domestic correctional facilities owned and operated by Geo Group, Inc.
65,716: number of beds available in Geo Group, Inc.’s domestic correctional facilities
$2.5 million: lobbying expenditures in the last 8 years, according to the Center for Responsive Politics
$2.9 million: total political contributions from years 2003 to 2012, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics
$5.7 million: executive compensation for CEO George C. Zoley in 2011
$6.5 million: damages awarded in a wrongful death lawsuit against the company last June for the beating death of an inmate by his cellmate at a GEO Group-run Oklahoma prison. An appeal has been filed and is pending.
$1.1 million: fine levied against the company in November 2011 by the New Mexico Department of Corrections for inadequate staffing at one of its prisons"
source: http://www.propublica.org/article/by-the-numbers-the-u.s.s-growing-for-profit-detention-industry
But yeah, you're right. I need to stop being melodramatic. Nothing to see here.
This is absolutely true. Documented fact. There is a new documentary out on this: Slavery by Another Name (trailer).
Full documentary here
The Pulitizer Prize-winning book it was based upon
Capitalism and freedom/democracy are not the same thing. As this evil episode of U.S. history shows, sometimes they are directly at odds with each other.
If you ever needed evidence that those who don't know their own history are destined to repeat it, then this should put such naive, lazy skepticism to sleep, for good.
Most poor people are white? Back that up, please, because these statistics look like you're pulling it out of your ass.
http://www.statisticbrain.com/welfare-statistics/ and
http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/poverty-rate-by-raceethnicity/
What you have to realize is that black people have been MADE into criminals by a racist system in the US for as long as they have been "Free." If you really want to be educated on some things you probably never knew happened, read this: http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
Also, black people are sentenced to around 21 percent longer sentences than white people for the SAME crimes. They are 20% more likely to get a prison sentence than a white person for the same crime. In school, they are much more likely to be arrested than white students for the same crimes. This creates a distrust of a system that they are indeed right to distrust. In doing so, not only does it hurt the next generation by taking away fathers and mothers from their children, but it also succeeds in aiding the glorification of lifestyles such as gangs/selling drugs/etc. After all, if you have no guidance and know that you're likely to be arrested for something you shouldn't, why not live a life where you can actually get some money doing something worth getting arrested for? (source for statistics: http://www.sentencingproject.org/ )
The point of all this is that it's not just cut and black numbers. You need to see the reasons behind where people are. When, historically, laws are made specifically to make good people into criminals, you effectively "breed" crime into a race or society. (Example: After being "freed" from slavery, laws were enacted making it illegal to be a "vagrant." Well, what do you call someone who has no home, no money and no job because they were just released from slavery? Vagrant. Throw them in jail under forced labor, then add to their sentence for any and everything you can and call them a criminal. You think these things stopped back then? Why is crack considered much worse than cocaine on a criminal level? Think about it.)
Just some examples pointing out the ignorance of your statement.
this was just one of a whole network camps, factories, mines and farms that black people were forced to work as slavery continued to assert itself across the south east for decades after "emancipation".
The conditions in these camps were often worse than the conditions faced before the civil war as the workers no longer had any financial value to the capitalist.
an interesting book on this topic
You really need to read some history and educate yourself on the realities of militarized policing and the treatment of black Americans.
Here are some suggestions where you can get started:
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Warrior-Cop-Militarization-Americas/dp/1610394577
https://www.amazon.com/New-Jim-Crow-Incarceration-Colorblindness/dp/1595586431/ref=pd_bxgy_14_img_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=37DDCSH6HQ7WTMAV25ZF
Be that as it may. 30 days is ridiculous for this but let's say it isn't. There is a legal doctrine that is available to render the offended parties satisfaction.
The doctrine is called "respondeat superior" or "let the superior answer". This doctrine holds employers responsible for employee misconduct if the employee is acting within the scope of her duties. Basically, the employer is responsible if, while doing her job, the employee offends.
So, let's say this employee, while picking up a dumpster, drops it on someone's car. His employer is liable for the damages.
Let's say this employee, after work, takes the trash truck to an apartment building who's owner is paying him under the table to remove their trash and drops a dumpster on a car. His employer is not liable.
So, in this case, if the employee, with the knowledge of his employer, went out and picked up trash early from the neighborhood, the employer is liable.
If the employee went and got the truck keys on his own without the employer knowing and went to pick up trash early in that neighborhood, the employee is liable.
From the information provided in the video and the fact that I live about ten minutes from that neighborhood, I would say that the prosecutor was outright being an asshole. First, he was being an asshole because he was obviously up against someone who did not even know to bring a lawyer with him.
Second, he is an asshole for not seeking a fine against the company which is clearly the superior party here.
Third, he is an asshole because he could have sought a day in jail which would have been just as effective in sending a message.
Fourth, he is an asshole because he just started or added to a criminal record for the guy who was just busting his ass to make a living.
Fifth, he is an asshole because, as a lawyer, he is carrying on the practice of seeking the most punishment possible for a minor offense. The guy, while in jail on the weekends, will probably have to do some manual labor for the benefit of a local company probably partly owned by the judge or the prosecutor or both.
On the last point: If you find this hard to believe, read a book called "Slavery by Another Name".
Is the prosecutor racist? I believe so. Can I prove it? I can't. Take it for what it's worth.
Yes, really.
The truth is there's simply no way to separate American law enforcement from its historical purpose of suppressing minorities and the poor.
Richard Nixon outright said, on tape, that the government needed to come up with a way to single out blacks without appearing racist and that the way was a war on drugs.
Well, if you actually do have an open mind, you should look into these resources:
You write:
> Asians are better scholars, and blacks are better athletes than whites, and yet you blithely say that "nothing in the physical makeup" of these people makes them more or less anything. I guess only the good things count.
No and no. It is you who are asserting false things without evidence on your side. You need to read more, and you need to experience more.
For me, the coin really dropped when I was tutoring a Chinese girl in Calculus when I was finally in a big college in a major city. Every Asian I had known until then in my provincial upbringing had been smart and engaging. I fully believed the stereotype of scholarly asians. Even there in college, my girlfriend at the time was Chinese and wicked smart. So I had "evidence" for my belief, but it was being contradicted by her stubborn inability to understand the math in front of her. It finally just hit me right then that this lady I was tutoring was kind of stupid as far as math went. Nothing wrong with that, but that was the moment that it hit me that the positive stereotype I had had was blinding me to the reality of the situation, and what she could literally understand.
I hope you'll consider what I've written, and read one or more of the books I've suggested. They've all been important to me.
Okay based on that I'm going to suggest a few things you could add to your wish list. I promise I won't be offended if you don't like them, but you might find something you're interested in. :)
Tea things:
First for cute tea things, I highly recommend the flowering tea pot I received it as an Arbitrary Day gift and it's awesome. The teas are delicious and most importantly, to me, the tea pot is sooo cute.
Mana Tea infuser a lot of people have this on their wish lists. I should add it to mine too.
Tea Sampler There are several samplers with different types of tea from this company and a bunch of others. You should look around for sure.
Hello Kitty Stuff:
Add on Hello Kitty alarm clock
This Hello Kitty toy It's adorable.
Mug
Ceramic travel mug
History related:
Hitler Youth This looks like it would be a fascinating read.
The Roads of the Roma: A PEN Anthology of Gypsy Writers
Gypsies Under the Swastika
The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
> https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
I'm putting that on my kindle. Thanks for the recc! I recently read 'Devil in the Grove' and 'Warriors Don't Cry,' too. Both really excellent examinations of integration efforts and the criminal justice system during Jim Crow.
> Is there anything "disgusting" or "racist" about the video?
I watched a few minutes, but the only thing I found disgusting was the lack of engagement with any serious issues of race inequality in the US.
> I think that intellectual challenge is a good thing.
Maybe read some about issues of race, then? Here is another one.
> Unfortunately, many leftists seem to find intellectual challenge disgusting/bad/racist.
This is way too vague to be meaningful.
Thanks, ill be sure to send you a link once I finish the project this summer. The project is my chosen thesis project for graduate school and my professor is thrilled someone is finally making the case that the convict lease system and southern chain gang systems in many ways represented Soviet Gulags, from the death rates and conditions found in prison mines, prison plantations, road and forrest camps, etc to the role such penal projects played in infrastructure development. I've found numerous newspaper articles and convict interviews from the late 1800s and early 1900s and reading them, there are so many overlaps with Soviet Gulag memoirs.
I really dislike how Reagan focused so much on the Soviet Union as being an "evil empire" while he himself built up a massive prison industrial complex. Solzhenitsyn and Reagan were close friends and while they were correct to denounce the abuses that went on under communism, they have done a lot of damage in distorting American history and culture. State capitalism in America has done equally horrific things to what the Soviet Union did just like the Bush's, Clintons, and Trump have done equally bad things to what Putin has done.
Here's some sources you might find interesting. Top one is a documentary slavery by another name and then there's a bunch of books
https://vimeo.com/78437511
https://www.amazon.com/Twice-Work-Free-Labor-Political/dp/1859840868
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Prisoners-Their-World-1865-1900/dp/0813919843/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=black+prisoners+and+their+world&qid=1550435064&s=gateway&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/One-Dies-Get-Another-1866-1928/dp/1570030839/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?keywords=one+dies+get+another&qid=1550435037&s=gateway&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=2AVK8K7PCQ5GM&keywords=slavery+by+another+name+book&qid=1550435091&s=gateway&sprefix=Slavery+by+anothe&sr=8-1
https://www.amazon.com/Chained-Silence-Convict-Justice-Politics-ebook/dp/B00VKMOP94/ref=mp_s_a_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=black+women+georgia+convict+lease&qid=1550435149&s=gateway&sr=8-1-fkmr0
https://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702
here's a few that would absolutely blow the mind of anyone who thinks the civil war mostly ended our oppression of black americans and afforded them anything remotely resembling equality.
for starters...
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
> Douglas A. Blackmon exposes the horrific aftermath of the Civil War and the abolishment of slavery, when thousands of black people were unfairly arrested and then illegally “sold” into forced labor as punishment.
> “When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our ‘fault.’ But it is undeniably our inheritance.”
there's tons of awfulness in more modern times as well...
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
or...
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
and if you really don't want to recognize your old self...
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
anyways
i'd be shocked if you're actually interested in reading about this and not just posturing over it but good on you if so.
>jealous low-life
I'm glad that you took a moment to step back and carefully consider the opposition's views.
using the word nigger in that context is relevant to a lot of people, myself included. If it doesn't piss you off, I recommend this book, which outlines injustices much worse than those occurring before the civil war.
If it wasn't for WWII blacks would still be swept off the street and forced to work in mines .
http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370658624&sr=8-1&keywords=slavery+by+another+name