@Buttermilk,
Buttermilk wrote:Two things
1) I don't know how to use the quote feature here.
I barely found out how to post YouTube videos.
2) On page 7, was what you said in the following:
"THE ONLY THING I WANT TO HEAR FROM BLACK IS YOU"RE WELCOME"
Although you probably meant to say that us blacks should thank you.
I 'm sure that is what he had in mind.
Buttermilk wrote:Going back Lincoln did you honestly think Lincoln,
one who is credited of freeing slaves was not a racist himself?
Most people very likely
believe that Abe Lincoln was not a racist,
because thay have
not read his speeches addressing racial difference.
If the black race had been
respected, then it never wud have been enslaved
in the first place. In the 17OOs and the 18OOs, blacks were deemed livestock.
Thay were sold like cattle or chickens. That was the temper of the times.
It always had been; I doubt that anyone in Lincoln's lifetime had ever claimed
that blacks and whites were racially equal, not so far as I 've ever heard.
The same Congress that voted for the 13th and 14th Amendments
also voted for segregated schools in the District of Columbia.
Maybe u can find someone who had a different point of vu in the 18OOs
or earlier. Surely, very few (if any) people then believed in racial equality.
Lincoln was passionate in his opposition to slavery; so were vast numbers
of Americans who elected him President, but he 'd have had little
chance of success if he 'd have campaigned promoting such things as
Martin L. King or Al Sharpton said. The voters 'd have thought he was nuts.
Tho I 've not researched this, to me it seems
un-likely that even
John Brown,
in the heat of his
anti-slavery fervor ever alleged that blacks n whites
were racially equal. In the 18OOs, almost no one believed in that.
The new mayor of NY City has liberated the horses from the carriages
that thay used to pull in Central Park. U can ask him if he deems
the equine race to be equal to the voters who elected him.
Buttermilk wrote:There are writings (use google) where he admitted that black
people were not equal to whites.
Yes. I 'm not aware of any survays taken in the 1860s,
but I 'm pretty sure that it woud have been
very difficult to find
many Americans (or any other nationality) who believed that whites
and blacks were racially equal.
If the Union soldiers invading the South had been asked whether
blacks were equal to them, there's not much chance of getting
a result that u 'd like. Do u disagree ?
In the 19OOs, in New York City (
which had sent huge numbers
of soldiers to fight, to invade the South years before) in the world
into which I was born, blacks were not very popular and were not
held in high esteem by anyone I knew, judging by their spoken opinions,
tho we seldom mentioned your race much.
Buttermilk wrote:I overall think its disingenuous for any white person to ask for a thank you,
I remember Cassius Clay or M. Ali, expressing his gratitude
for his not having to live in Africa.
Buttermilk wrote:Even when the chains on bondage were broken,
blacks in this country were broken, blacks still faced systematic racism.
Do u allege that the whites have a
DUTY to
LIKE u??
or to desire to hang around with u???
If so, then where did that duty
come from?
Buttermilk wrote:Need I get into segregation?
No, but u can if u want to do it.
Buttermilk wrote:It's only been 50 years since we've supposedly gotten over that.
Do u deny that both races self-segregate??
Remember the jury in the O.J. trial?
It is ofen the case that people
like
to associate with their own kind. Big surprize ?
"Birds of a feather flock together."
Buttermilk wrote:So what am I thanking whites for?
The fact that u don 't live in Africa.
