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That's not what he meant and you know it. He was pointing out that his ancestors did not own slaves, not asking for sympathy because they couldn't.
Quite frankly it's irrelevant anyway. I don't know what my ancestors did or didn't do. But I had no say in it. I'm sick of rich black actors lecturing me about my "white privilege", meanwhile I may very well be homeless in a few months because I can't make rent. I sure as hell don't feel "priveleged".
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2 ups, 6y
No, because I can't even afford a car. I have been stopped (while waliking) for looking suspicious, when I lived in Compton.
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4 ups, 6y
More worried because I smell suspicious... in certain states lol
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Hate to burst your PC revisionist myths, but you might want to look up the reason for the Civil War.
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2 ups, 6y,
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There were serveral reasons for the American civil war, one of them was slavery
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The Civil War was not fought to free slaves.
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2 ups, 6y
Not just about slavery but largely, have you not had any history lessons or something?
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1 up, 6y
It was fought to save the Union and free the slaves
3 ups, 6y
This is the first time we have differed... it was ALL ABOUT slavery... https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
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Your buddy laonsite was trying to help you out. Based on the evidence, it seems that some folks were fighting because of slavery. You don't even try to come back with evidence of your own.
2 ups, 6y
"Not just about slavery but largely, have you not had any history lessons or something?"

Ignorance is not cute.
2 ups, 6y
"Not just about slavery but largely, have you not had any history lessons or something?"

To free them? No.
But you are free (see what I did there?) to indulge me.
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"Actually there were several reasons. Aside from the obvious schism between abolitionists and anti-abolitionists, economic factors both domestic and international played a --"

"hey hey.. just say slavery"

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFwHQYDqf6c
4 ups, 6y,
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You're joking, right?
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I'm guessing you didn't click the link...
3 ups, 6y,
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So you are home schooled. I am sorry. In my world that would be against the law. You are the product of your parents. Nothing more.
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Haha nah, just telling you what the data shows. Now your insults can make sense lol

Would be against the law?... Wh-why?..
2 ups, 6y
Scroll down for what you were too lazy to look up.
Illuminate your ignorance a bit.
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jfc/..... were you homeschooled? ffs you idiots... The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of America, present to their confederates and the world the causes which have led to the separation. For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states
3 ups, 6y
No reply options left to your reply below, so I'll reply here.

That map was the reason for the Civil War.

I skimmed through the article you posted (I normally don't do links) and saw nothing about the Civil War being about freeing slaves.
There was, however, a few mentions of concerns about State rights and a belief from Southern States that the Western Territory and States made from it should be allowed to have slaves if they so choose, despite what the Missouri Compromise (1820) had forbidden above the 36th Parallel in that area.
The Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 and the Dred Scott Decision (1857) effectively repealed it, aggravating the North. Add to that the 3/5ths vote advantage the Southern States had, and the stage was set, since both would basically put the Federal Goverment in Southern control. Naturally Northern States wouldn't want to be rendered permanently subjugated to them, so seceding became the solution to preventing them from countering the imbalance.
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2 ups, 6y
Home-schooled kids tend to outperform other kids on standardized tests and have higher graduation rates...
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MLK jr may not have acted like a victim of racism... but he did end up getting shot in the face by a white man. So it seems ironic you'd bring him up in context.
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So your position seems to be: MLK conquered racism.. despite getting killed because of racism.. and even if we are still surrounded by racism that was already conquered... just tell yourself you're not a victim of racism and everything will be honky dory?
(And something about leftist guilt being akin to some kind of hysterical plague. )
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My invented narrative strawman was based entirely on your words. I haven't heard about MLK conquering his own self pity, so I assumed you meant racism. Do you have any links about said self pity? I'd be interested in reading them.

I'm well aware that we elected a Obama twice.. what happened after that? The guy who railed on said "black man"'s birth certificate/ citizenship status for nearly a decade and promised to negate everything Obama did got elected.

I never said we are "surrounded" by racism. Seems you created that strawman.

I don't consider myself a victim of anything.. but my feelings don't negate other actual victims. Facts not feelings right?
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There should be some kind of participation award given to those who conquer it.
0 ups, 5y
you'd never get yours ;)
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""Look! There's a racist! Look, over there! Another one! My GOD, Janet, we're SURROUNDED by racists!!!"" .....you quite literally created a narrative and then claimed that i created the narrative and then said im foolish for doing so.

MLK was a great man but saying that "he conquered self pity" is like saying that Trump conquered alcohol addiction.

Are you even for real or just trolling me?
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you're just incapable of actual thought, it's VERY plain you're just another professional victim who has to cry, cry, cry about sweet F all
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You're really making MLK proud by focusing on the skin color of his shooter
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MLK is murdered by a racist and im racist for talking about it. i only brought it up in the context of Timber saying MLK didn't act like a victim of racism and that he conquered it and such.
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Nut jobs exist everywhere, don't be so focused on skin color bruh
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3 ups, 6y
How about those whose ancestors came over as indentured servants? Do you actually know what that is or are you just running on the assumption that "omg white people is bad only to minorities"?
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what is even more terrible is ppl blaming them for something they had nothing to do with. Lionell Ritchie has as much slave owner ancestry as he does black, should he have to pay? (see tv show "who do you think you are")
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BTW my family isn't even white so nobody has owned slaves. Throwing money at ghettos won't help. People need to get some work ethic or they don't deserve to rise up. It is not that hard to rise up in America with a focus on school work. The problem is that black culture is really anti hard work
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Yes it is. African American culture in America negatively affects the work ethic of the children.
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Except that isn't what is glorified by mainstream black culture.
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Octavia said basically the same thing, and here you are talking about a niche market built on sensationalism as mainstream and culture. Laonsite also said similar to what OM and I said.

Maybe you should wait till you hit sophomore year and learn more.
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"Claybourne
Stop playing dumb. Or with you it may not be playing. Rap is an example of black culture that glorifies crime and not success throughworking hard."

B-BOY MUSIC is NOT culture, it's arguably not even music.
It's a stylized fad from a small segment of of ghetto kids selling exploitation garbage for suburban wannnabes like yourself looking for street cred.

They exemplify culture and people no more than Emimem, Marilyn Manson, or Lady GaGa does you. Not even Taylor Swift represents Country Music and its fans, and she's their biggest star.

Hate to break it to you, but all those gangsta rappers (which translates to gangster for you) really are not talking about their criminal exploits. Hence why they live in mansions instead of prison cells.
Read some of Tupacs non-rapping poetry for a real shock. A friend read me some once over the phone, I couldn't believe it was him.

Hate to see you find out Alice Cooper isn't really a reincarnated witch.

Stop goofing around and look up culture.
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Xxxtentation shot, Kodak in jail after owning guns on probation and smoking grass with son, lil peep overdose, Gucci mane killed a man, lil pump juvie and jail, examples of rappers.

And kids in the ghettos are affected by this, wanting to be in gangs and thinking drugs are cool.

We are way to far from my original point respond to my comment above.
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Love how you're into this 'music.' Never heard of them.
How's your Taylor Swidt love life going by the way, Lady MaGa?

Again, not culture, which you still have not looked up. Also, you're trying to pull a "Which came first, the chicken and fried egg?" so still no.

"And kids in the ghettos are affected by this, wanting to be in gangs and thinking drugs are cool."

What are you, 82? "And now the kids want to take the marijuanas because Bill Clinton played saxaphone on that dastardly Arsenio Hall Negro show"

To wrap up this silliness, Country, Blue Grass, and Blues - which evolved over centuries (and are descendended from music far older) - are culture. B-Boy, Death Metal, Grunge, and Emo are not. They are fads.

B-Boy Music, or 'Gangsta Rap' that you refer to, is product, an expression of what some witness, exagerrated and sensationalized for marketing purposes. In fact, you might want ot look into accusations of why such is being mass marketed by large corporations.
In additon, the largest demographic which purchases this 'music' is who? And yet do you see these white suburban kids pimping, shooting up cops, and smoking crack?
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If you keep repeating yourself cool. I understand you don't agree with me. Scroll down a bit to where you ask me in green and I respond in yellow. Why did you delete the comment?
2 ups, 6y,
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Glorified be mainstream black culture?
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What is rap?
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You mean B-Boy Music? (The music part is questionable).
What about it?
1 up, 6y
Stop playing dumb. Or with you it may not be playing. Rap is an example of black culture that glorifies crime and not success throughworking hard.
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Thanks again!
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Haha my brain is growing. More than half of blacks live in metropolitan areas and more than half of those on welfare are black. So the inner city ghetto culture is black culture in America. A doctor friend of our family was talking about how he wanted to live in the suburbs to put his kids in a better school, but didn't want to leave the black culture in the city. (He is Nigerian born outside of the U.S.) A good amount black kids in the ghettos don't want to so well in school and don't think ahead. IT IS NOT THEIR FAULT. NOBODY AROUND THEM IS A GOOD EXAMPLE, thus the ghettos culture is screwing them. Please don't mistake me for racist. I think black people are as capable and smart as all races, but there is some sort of issue. They are poor and surrounded by opportunity but don't take it. Now, let's back track. I originally said that slavery and racism is not reason to throw money at the ghettos, meaning ghettoized blacks not all blacks. My original point, which we have now strayed from, is that social security won't help or build the work ethic necessary to succeed. Think on tham
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Social Security won't what? I see you've said you're just a kid in school, so that explains your ignorance, but perhaps looking up basic things before mangling what they are to suit your bogus narrative might be beneficial.

Original point? Not to me it wasn't.
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My original comment was that. Social security won't help these people succeed and will waste taxpayer money. If you throw money at somebody who is last and doesn't work, it will give them food and a home for a few more days, but they won't work. Why do they deserve it?
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What planet are you from? Nigerian, and he doesn't want to leave the "black culture in the city"? Are you for real? That's like someone from England preferring to stay in a trailer park. It's a totally different culture. Are you pulling a Grind?
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Look up Social Security and who is eligible for it. You clearly are talking out the side of your ass.

What race are you since you mentioned you weren't white but then said you were?
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South Asian
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South Asian? That narrows it down to 2.

Nevertheless, I'd say you're from Pakistan, which explains a lot.
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No I was born in Texas but I am ethnically Indian.
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Thank you sir!
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Hollywood said that? What entertainment advocated anyone getting gov't aide?

And skip your "Sjw much" faux snootiness. You actually listen to that crap, home boy.
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More like stupidity

on your part,

Eminem.
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Ok I listen to rap(its a vice) because I mothafukin vibe to that shit. I appreciate actual good music but it just doesn't give them feels. That could literally be in a rap song. Major themes of rap: Bitches,drugs,I'm the best, car, watch, clothes, prison, gang, f**k the system, imma a bad boy, don't give a f**k
3 ups, 6y,
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Cringe alert! Wish I saw this before.
So you shoot any hos in da hood, homie?
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No I listen to rap. Being a white boy from the suburbs I'm not affected. Rap coming from the ghettos is an example of the culture there. It is not working and breaking rules, and that is why people love it. It is nice to fantasize about not giving a shit. Then you wake up and go to your 9 to 5.
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Was under the impression you weren't white.

9 - 5? Just what kind of school you attend?
2 ups, 6y
yea the "music" i there culture ''' jfc where do you people come from?
2 ups, 6y
This is getting long past redundant.
No, it is not.
Have you ever even been outside of the suburbs? And I don't mean to Walmart....
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Lol! I bet it could be!

I can't stand 90% of the rap I hear because the people that play it at my gym only play dumb rap about drugs, bitches, big D, I'm the best, get that money, and all the other retarded shit. I hear enough to know that stuff makes developing minds fing retarded.

I feel bad for kids that only listen to rap. There's a lot of them in my region and they do grow up to be retards, I see it every day.
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In class we saw a video where they asked kids what they want to be when they grow up(maybe 8-10 y.o) in the 90s theyd say doctor or astronaut. Now they say rich or famous.
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Lol! Haha

To be fair... I'd still like to be rich!
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Hell yeah, but there has to be some sort of path.
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Not only whites owned slaves. There were plenty of freed african americans who turned around and purchased slaves of their own. Mexican and Cuban americans who owned slaves as well.
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We are learning about that in history. Before the "Terrible Transformation", black slaves had a chance to turn their life around like Anthony Johnson. After slavery was racialized and industrialized it is just a myth.
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That's a lie. There were black slave owners up until the Civil War, and many of them only gained their freedom within a few years before the war started yet had no issues buying other african americans. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison is just one example. Not only did he own slaves at the time of the civil war, he actively supported the confederate government and they had no complaints.
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This was much smaller. Get your head out of the sand and stop pretending that blacks were treated with even a shred of fairness. The reason some blacks had no problem is that they wanted a better life for themselves and needed to. It is still the fault of the whites for making this system and treating blacks lower.
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Doesn't change the fact that you presenting black slave owners as a "myth" is an outright LIE. I never claimed they were treated fairly, I merely called you out for spreading an untruth.
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Ok, but It is pointed to to justify slavery. It happened so rarely that to say that blacks also owned slaves with out mentioning how rare it was is not completely true either.
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Don't forget Hispanics and Cubans. :) but yes, it was rare. the fact is it happened, though, and to try and sweep it under the rug does nobody any favors
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"Don't forget Hispanics and Cubans." ?
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You are one f**ked up asshole... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Magee
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I was refrencing ghetto black culture today and saying throwing money at it won't help.
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you're a hateful racist little asshole too, so GFYS ,,i,,
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anti hard work/.... you another freaking moron. Ill take any black worker over you any day.
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http://globalpolicysolutions.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2-Unemployment-rate-by-age-race.png

This is not for all blacks, but on average, they do not try as hard, and that is a product of their culture. The average black person doesn't have the work ethic to get up and succeed compared to other races.
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WOW
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I know right. Pretty rare!
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Spoiler alert: the Confederacy doesn't exist anymore lol
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There are many factors in play and I don't completely understand the reasons the black people are less successful and get into more crime. Slavery is a part, and even if it is the only cause how does it justify throwing money at poor people. It wont give them any work ethic.
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you're dealing with a KING tard, can't convince a fool he's a fool, so don't bother. We all know it
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The last slave died in 1970 and I was very much alive.... fu you ignorant pos... and it was illegal for me to marry a black girl.... seriously you are one ignorant racist sack o shit
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Yes you are right.
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when you grow up with the "victim" mentality, same mentality that wants reparations for something that wasn't done to them, by anyone alive, and thinks the world owes them something, then absolutely YES ! There's a work ethic issue. Why find a job when you've been told since birth you don't have to ? You can kiss my ass if you don't think that's true. I've seen it first hand all of my life and I'm over 50 now. Why is black unemployment so high ? Because finishing school and trying to better yourself isn't how most are brought up anymore. Just facts, so you butt hurt assholes can just GFYS
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On average yes, a result of the mainstream black culture. Just because there are smart talented rich hardworking blacks doesn't speak for the majority
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I don't mean all African Americans. I mean the ghetto culture in America.
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MY FAMILY GOT HERE LONG AFTER COLONIZATION AND SLAVERY, LIKE MOST TODAY; SO DON'T BE EXPECTING RECONCILIATION, REPARATIONS, OR AN APOLOGY FROM ME !