A Brief To Blackie - All Praise The Slave Ship
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Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan wrote a post on his site called A Brief To Whitey, where he compares Obama’s speech on race to the same con that the black hustlers have been peddling for ages. He then goes on to claim that blacks should be lucky for the slave trade you see memorialize in the picture above.
600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.
Wright ought to go down on his knees and thank God he is an American.
So let me get this right Mr. Buchanan, I should be happy that my people we shoved in the bottom of ships brought to a strange new country, mistreated for hundreds of years and only truly became Equal less than 20 years ago? Okay explain more to me.
Second, no people anywhere has done more to lift up blacks than white Americans. Untold trillions have been spent since the ’60s on welfare, food stamps, rent supplements, Section 8 housing, Pell grants, student loans, legal services, Medicaid, Earned Income Tax Credits and poverty programs designed to bring the African-American community into the mainstream.
Granted I’ll give you that no people have done more for Black Americans than white but at the same time no race has done more to oppress the Black American that the white American. Tell that to the mother of a 9 year old boy named Malik Thomas who was burned to death by a group of white children. Explain that to the ancestors of Emmett Till & Medger Evers whose killer was only brought to Justice in 1994.
Another Newsflash Pat, there are no more Black Schools in America. But under funded school systems in the Urban areas of the world where its citizens live in poverty and are forced by zoning laws to go to these underfunded schools. Do poor children not deserve a proper education b/c they should be happy they are descendants of slaves?
Mr. Buchanan your comments are insensitive, and racist. Unlike the statements of Rev. Wright’s whose statements were at best UnAmerican but far from racist, and filled with truth. It is time for Blacks to stand up and make views like this a national issue. You ought to be lucky that the former slaves of this country did not revolt and take this country over. With views like yours Mr. Buchanan the race issues in this country will never ever be solved.
Ms. Cat
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This was a presidential candidate. His statements are asinine. BUT are we really surprised. More of them think those things than we know of.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
sugamama79
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What, I dont see anything wrong with what Mr. Buchanan said.
HA HA!!! I am ONLY joking!!!!!! I am offended by his remarks and they do make me want to throw rocks at him!!!
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Tahirah
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What’s interesting is Mr. Buchanan closed his comments section on that statement. It like leaving a burning bag on someone’s front porch and running off.
Either way, he sounds very ignorant if you only look at the trillions of dollars spent on social systems to support blacks. You ignore the fact that free labor (slavery) for centuries has made this country the richest in the world.
So white america should be truly greatful because they would not have the same opportunities in Europe if it wasn’t for the massive wealth built by slavery.
Another note, blacks next to native americans are the smallest minority. So 40 million blacks is not a lot when you compare that to the amount of whites living in this country. Also let’s not forget all the lynchings, crimes of murder that went unpunished, or the rapes….I could go on forever.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
circa-81
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Pat Buchanan?? Not surprised at all. But what he says does not bother me. I take in the fact that he is ingnorant of true black history. We have known success and prominence in areas through out Africa; including prominent empires which recorded several dynesty’s. The reason why Africa did not develop with the rest of the world or for that matter was destabilized from futher progression is because of the fact that the continent was bombarded from all sides with foreign invasions: Europe, China, Arabia, Russia etc. for a thousand or more years. Africa’s stongest territories inevidibly crumbled leaving us with it’s present state today.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Nykya
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…Where was the pic taken…I see a trip in order for the younguns in my life? Thanx in advance for any info.
Posted on March 25th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Secret
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We oughta be happy?? WTF?
Like we asked to be forced up in this muthafucka against our own will, lose our; identities, culture, history…Be put up for sale and bred like animals, forced to learn about Christianity and all other satanistic holidays, forced to eat this European garbage/poison that causes us (in the masses) to suffer from so many dis-eases that effect us more than any other race on this planet… Should I go on???
Yep, sounds like something we should be fucking happy for to me!! Thanks, massa, for taking our ancestors out of our homes and bringing us to a better way of “living!”
We miiiighty thankful!!
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Secret
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Oops, forgot to also mention that we should probably thank them for giving us our “freedom” too… Thanks for freeing us up out of slavery and then oppressing us and providing us with glass windows so as to attempt to keep us down every chance you get…And also, I want to thank you soooo very much for giving us our very own restrooms and water fountains and sections during the segregation era and for labeling them with the names you gave us, “Niggas” so that we will remember where we should go, sit and stand..you know, with all of the lack of education we had and all… THat leads me to my next thank you…for teaching us your language and for gratefully not allowing us to learn how to read & to write… Massa, you never kept us down, and will never keep us down…No one is inferior, unless you give them permission…
Peace.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 11:43 am
mish mash
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Wake up black people…this is another pathetic attempt to discredit your greatness! Ask yourself why was it that is was so important for us not to be able to read and to be stripped of our culture. The reason being so that we could not connect with our great ancestries. The Europeans came too to us to cure them of their illnesses and to learn how to established a society. How to farm and irrigate to learn of math and sciences. Christiantity is not our natural religion. This was a religion given to us to keep us submissive to them. Why else would they commission Michael Angelo to paint a picture of man who looks nothing like(but white) of that which is described in the book. Stop accepting things at face value and do the research…Pat don’t be mad because your ancestry relates back to savagetry, brutality, inhumanity, just to name a few..so i say pat..take a step back and check your own past….
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
mish mash
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Wake up black people…this is another pathetic attempt to discredit your greatness! Ask yourself why was it that is was so important for us not to be able to read and to be stripped of our culture. The reason being so that we could not connect with our great ancestries. The Europeans came too to us to cure them of their illnesses and to learn how to establish societies. How to farm and irrigate and to learn of math and sciences. Christiantity is not our natural religion. This was a religion given to us to keep us submissive to them. Why else would they commission Michael Angelo to paint a picture of man who looks nothing like(but white) of that which is described in the book. Stop accepting things at face value and do the research…Pat don’t be mad because your ancestry relates back to savagetry, brutality, inhumanity, just to name a few..so i say pat..take a step back and check your own past….
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Just passin' by
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I cannot believe ignorance like this still excists in 2008.
What kind of freedom and prosperity does mister Buchanan have in mind when he speeks of freedom and prosperity? For as far as I know the majority of black Americans aren’t rich, let alone wealthy. “Freedom” didn’t come for black Americans untill well over the second half of the 20th century. And if it wasn’t for people like Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks and other people that put their life on the line, God knows what the situation would be like at this point in time.
People who need welfare, section 8 housing and all the other stuff mister Buchanan sums up, are hardly free in my opinion, let alone prosperous.
White people made it a point to make sure the black slaves that were taken from Africa forgot their identity and their history. They imposed their believes on our ancestors and made them submit to a lifestyle which sole purpose was to further expand the white man’s wealth. Where was the freedom and prosperity in that?
Black people throughout the western world aren’t doing as well as their white peers, because of people in important, influeantial roles who think like mister Buchanan.
We are now allowed to get an education and in theory we have the same chances as white people. But the reality of it is a very different one.
But of course an ill informed, shortsighted creature like mister Buchanan won’t be able to see this.
Posted on March 26th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
mightywhitey
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Blogxilla-I tried to post this directly to DIG, but it wouldn’t take it.
I certainly agree, Mr. B’s article was insensitive and condescending. Pat has a nasty habit of saying things with a grain of truth and a gallon of gall. To be clear, I’m not sure he blatantly says blacks should thank God their ancestors were brought here as slaves, but of course, it’s implied. But is the implication as nasty as it sounds to us? I’m not sure. A modern Jew thanking God his family made it to America from Germany is not the same thing as thanking God for the holocaust, is it? Or is that a distinction without a difference? Because America participated in the slave trade? But didn’t Roosevelt refuse asylum to many Jews? And wouldn’t that make our modern Jewish-American even more grateful his parents made it past the racist U.S. policy of Roosevelt? With apologies to Yoda (!), ‘The Past, always difficult to see. To much emotion.’
The question to ask, perhaps is, today, where would you, a black man, rather be living? In America or Rwanda?
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Just passin' by
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With al due respect mightywhitey,
To me you’re comparing apples and oranges. Jews, whether they were fleeing from a perillous situation or not, came to America by choice. They could’ve chosen to go to any other place. They were in danger, but they still had the choice to come to America.
Slaves didn’t have much choice once they boarded those ships. They were either sold into slavery or captured. Once they came to America they didn’t have the choice to determine what they wanted to do with their lives. The only choice they had was to either submit to a live of slavery that was forced upon them, or the whip (or die). Even after slavery was over, black people still didn’t have any rights.
Now I know that Jews had a hard time when they came to America and the holocaust was a horrible, inhumane chapter in history. I know they were discriminated against and had a hard time surviving. I’m not trying to take away from that. But the circumstances Jews and slaves were faced with when they entered America can’t be compared in my opinion.
Africans were taken away from home and were sold off as life stock, were stripped from their identity ,dignity and history. They didn’t have any say in whether they wanted to go to America or any other place. Untill well over half of the 20th century their descendants had little to no rights at all.
And to answer your question where a black man would rather live today can’t really be answered in my opinion. History denied us the chance to make that choice for ourselves.
Posted on March 27th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Muze
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oh HELL no. this just made me mad.
i gotta go drink some water. i’ll be back.
oh…and i miss you xilla! where you been? no love for muze anymore i see. lol.
Posted on March 28th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Caramelhoneys
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Buchanan is a racist…always has been, always will be…it’s just that simple…’nuff said dre of Caramelhoneys.com
Posted on March 30th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
elle
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i have nothing to say
Posted on April 13th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Ewlood
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” I should be happy that my people we shoved in the bottom of ships brought to a strange new country, ”
If your going to cite horrors of the slave trade leaving out facets that run counter to your preconceived notions, it displays the shallowness of your historical context.
Yes, African slaves were “shoved” into the bottom of ships, but how did the slave traders get their cargo? From the west African blacks who were more the happy to sell their own people to the traders. The traders didn’t go inland and catch blacks and drag them to the shore, west africans were gathering them for them. The real original “slavers” were the blacks of their own people. The traders were buying a slave, but were not the slavers themselves.
“mistreated for hundreds of years”
Agreed. Blacks in the US were mistreated for hundreds of years in the US. But never for a moment think that black slavery was limited to the US. Many went to Caribbean, and south America. In the US there were black who owned slaves as well. So while the sloppy historian follows your path, the truth of slavery in the US is much more nuanced then advertised by modern race hustlers. In fact other nations (Brazil) kept slavery for many years after it was illegal in the US.
“and only truly became Equal less than 20 years ago? Okay explain more to me”
Less then 20 years? What? Are you implying that sometime in the 1990 that blacks became equal? That somehow Jim Crow was law in the 1980’s? The amount of utter and dismal fail that is encapsulated in your assertion of “less then 20 years”, is mind numbingly stunning since it takes the century of effort from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Act and dismisses it all as trivial. That the efforts of those from Frederick Douglass, to Dr. King were nothing, only can be used by those of your opposition (white supremacists) that could point to your ignorant notion as proof that your race can not be taught the value of your own history.
“Granted I’ll give you that no people have done more for Black Americans than white but at the same time no race has done more to oppress the Black American that the white American. ”
Oppression of blacks in America has come from within as well as without. Fifty years ago (and further back) the black family unit was much more stable then today, as well as education more valued. So many blacks are killed by other blacks that it’s not even news. It’s an indictment that when a noose is hung from a tree in some throw back area the professional outrage merchants carpetbag their way in, but these same people spend the day counting their money when a black youth is gunned down by another black youth.
“Tell that to the mother of a 9 year old boy named Malik Thomas who was burned to death by a group of white children.”
Children? Children are sometimes little shits. From what I have discovered from researching Malik Thomas it’s undermined weather or not it was racially motivated. Apparently the boys were playing at a construction cite and were (at a minimum) all involved at some point prior to the fire. At no point before Malik died did he blame any of the other childeren as his killer. He said he didn’t start the fire, but at the same time did not implicate a motive as to why he was burned. Most people, even nine year olds, would blame those they felt responsible for their injuries. Since he didn’t do so, and the extreme youth of the other childeren (9, and 11) it streaches plausibility to call this incident somehow motivated by race. Kids fight, especially boys. They do mean things that have nothing to do with anything since their normally friends the next day. This could have been the same issue, only gone horribly wrong.
” Explain that to the ancestors of Emmett Till
His death was tragic, and needless. It did however seem to bring the civil right movement into a focus that it didn’t have before. Not to sound callous, but sometimes that just the way things have to go for something better to happen. Just as there were always enough lifeboats, after, the Titanic, sometimes an immense tragedy, has, to happen before people begin to take notice. It’s an axiom of humanity, not just race relations.
” & Medger Evers whose killer was only brought to Justice in 1994.”
For an Evers there is a Michael Schwerner, and a Andrew Goodman, and other white people who risked, and sometimes died with less to gain then those they helped. The whites who helped did so because it was, and still is, the right thing to do.
The real unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were those in what Nixon called the silent majority. Those who allowed it to happen. It was an almost no brainer for a black to tell another black that segregation was wrong and should end(although there were some who didn’t want to integrate). It was much harder to convince some white in another part of the nation, that was basically disinterested, that it was wrong. Prior to this time the generations had basically been taught that the movie “Birth of a Nation” was fact, and the Klan was a good moral group. While many did help, a great many more lent a much more useful tacit approval then any other generation before. That was the tipping point.
“But under funded school systems in the Urban areas of the world where its citizens live in poverty and are forced by zoning laws to go to these underfunded schools.”
The amount of money that has (and is being spent) been been staggering. Apparently schools could be made out of bundles of $100 bills and it wouldn’t matter. The dollars spent have little bearing on the education that is produced (after a certain threshold is met). We have been told for decades that if we just spent more then all would be well, we spent more, all was not well, so funding is not an issue with traction. If you want to cite, how, the money is spent there is more then enough to talk about. Most of these funds are directed through local school boards, they set many of the priorities, and should bear the brunt of the blame (yes, I know the feds have their level of stupidity in the mix, as always). Most of the worst performing school districts are controlled by the most inept school boards (we have met the enemy, and he is us). All politics being local, it’s much more incumbent for the local citizens to see that come election time that the best are put into these positions. Not simply those with a D or R by their name. If they don’t preform, then get rid of them next time, regardless of party affiliation. The only “agenda” of a school board should be education. That being of the basics of reading (and comprehension), writing, arithmetic, and history.
” Do poor children not deserve a proper education b/c they should be happy they are descendants of slaves?”
Being poor is not a racial issue. There are plenty of poor whites, Latinos, native Americans, and others in this country as well. None of whom are the decedents of slaves, and deserve a proper education.
“Unlike the statements of Rev. Wright’s whose statements were at best UnAmerican but far from racist, and filled with truth.”
Truth? That the US somehow invented the AIDS virus to kill blacks? Sorry, but thats the train to crazy town. And I’m not going. I’ve heard enough from the 911 truthers, the moon landings were faked crowd, aliens at Roswell people, and the folks that believe that Oliver Stones JFK was a documentary. There’s just not enough tinfoil hats to go around these days. There is not a big enough disconnect for a thinking person to believe that a government who failed to find WMD in Iraq, was competent enough to engineer AIDS.
To be fair I don’t find Wright’s comments to be Un-American. Crazy is just as American as apple pie and baseball. He is the living embodiment of the first amendment. It wasn’t put in place to protect that which we agree with, it was put there to protect the loons, and nut jobs so we could all see them for who they are.
” It is time for Blacks to stand up and make views like this a national issue. You ought to be lucky that the former slaves of this country did not revolt and take this country over.”
Try it. Internet Tough Guy. Most of us out here in the more rural areas are better armed then you. We rarely speak of what we have available, and I wont now. Suffice to say that if for some reason civil society breaks down, stay in your cities, you’ll find yourselves quickly dead by a motivated and well armed militia. The British couldn’t take the country side during the Revolution, nor could the US army hold the jungle in Viet-Nam, don’t flatter yourself.
We’re not interested in that kind of conflict. We, as should you, take our issue to the ballot box. You win some, you lose some. Then you get to do it again.
“With views like yours Mr. Buchanan the race issues in this country will never ever be solved.”
Actually I find you views to be more regressive then Pat Buchanan’s. Starting with how you lace you diction with inflammatory words, followed by a just enough historical context to be misleading at best. You’re no better then those who derided Barbara Bush for what she said after Katrina, when in fact she was correct. She just stated it poorly. Those being helped (after a complete failure of local and state agencies, before the feds even had a chance to fail) were being helped in a pretty decent way. I know this more then TV, my mother was there as Red Cross volunteer and she related much more then what was reported by the MSM.
For the record I’m white, but I live without a shred of white guilt as concerns relations with the black community. My fathers extensive genealogy records go all they way back to the old country (Swiss, and Scottish). At no point have any of my ancestors owned a slave (couldn’t even if they wanted, most were dirt poor), or lived in a slave state (residents of Ohio since before 1820), nor have profited from the slave trade or it’s ancillary industries. From my fathers side I have two ancestors who fought for the Union during the Civil war, one being wounded and spent time at Andersonville, Ga. My mothers side emigrated from Ireland to Canada after the Civil War (Potato Famine, couldn’t go to the US since the Irish quota had been met, talk about racism), then came from Canada to the US later (legally).
My girlfriend has a daughter who father is black. Her father is in and out of jail, doesn’t help pay for anything, is on and off drugs, and is a pretty worthless human. I don’t treat her any different then my son or daughter (who are both white), I have helped support her as if she was one of my own. Both of my childeren I have taught to not dislike someone based upon how they look. I’ve told them,”If your not going to like someone don’t go the stupid route, let them talk long enough, you’ll figure out weather or not you like them or not”. So I simply don’t care, and with good reason, about any black attempting to throw slavery in my face. I don’t blame todays English for their great-grandfather’s genocide in Ireland, you just have to let somethings go.
Instead of living everyday as if the racial issues of the past are in present (less then 20 years) get over yourself. You’ll never move forward carrying that chip on your shoulder. Yeah, there’s bad people in the world… … …so what? If you hate it here so much you could always go back. I’ve been to Europe, I understand why my ancestors left. While yours didn’t leave voluntarily, nothings keeping you here. I highly recommend most Americans visit the lands of their ancestors, while it’s very cool, nothing will make you want to come home more.
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 6:02 am
amechi
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I really feel reminded of the need to improve the condition of life in Africa.It would have been so nice to give africans in diaspora a very viable option which is to come back to africa and feel very good about it.But ask me, can I truly recommend this? Honestly,because what is of greater priority 4 a man is good decent basic living,i would find this a hard recommendation to make.The reason why till date Blacks do the unimaginable just to be in America,is just ds factor of survival. I apologise to my brothers in Diaspora that those of us who were at the end of the day not sold as slaves,have failed to prepare Africa,a beautiful place to motivate them to return.I trully feel ur pains and passion to return to ur roots,but we have failed over here in Africa to make that home worth coming back. I am very sorry my brothers.
Posted on April 25th, 2008 at 11:01 am