Can Black Children Be Friends With White People?

Covfefe said:
I find it a common trait in bigots and racists.
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If you've never read it, I believe you would find it deeply insightful reading into what is still prevalent in American society and what we're all still fighting to this very day.

The Slave Narratives
excerpt

Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. The large number of black people maintained as a labor force in the post-slavery South were not permitted to threaten the region's character as a white man's country, however. The region's ruling class dedicated itself to the overriding principle of white supremacy, and white racism became the driving force of southern race relations. The culture of racism sanctioned and supported the whole range of discrimination that has characterized white supremacy in its successive stages. During and after the slavery era, the culture of white racism sanctioned not only official systems of discrimination but a complex code of speech, behavior, and social practices designed to make white supremacy seem not only legitimate but natural and inevitable.

In the antebellum South, slavery provided the economic foundation that supported the dominant planter ruling class. Under slavery the structure of white supremacy was hierarchical and patriarchal, resting on male privilege and masculinist honor, entrenched economic power, and raw force. Black people necessarily developed their sense of identity, family relations, communal values, religion, and to an impressive extent their cultural autonomy by exploiting contradictions and opportunities within a complex fabric of paternalistic give-and-take. The working relationships and sometimes tacit expectations and obligations between slave and slaveholder made possible a functional, and in some cases highly profitable, economic system. Despite the exploitativeness and oppression of this system, slaves emerge in numerous antebellum slave narratives as actively, sometimes aggressively, in search of freedom, whether in the context of everyday speech and action or through covert and overt means of resistance.

Defeat in the Civil War severely destabilized slavery-based social, political, and economic hierarchies, demanding in some cases that white southerners develop new ones. After the Civil War, the southern ruling class was compelled to adapt to new exigencies of race relations and a restructured, as well as reconstructing, economic system. For African Americans, the end of slavery brought hope for unprecedented control of their own lives and economic prospects. After Emancipation, however, most black southerners found themselves steadily drawn into an exploitative sharecropping system that effectively prohibited their becoming property owners with a chance to claim their share of the American Dream. Unlike many poor whites who also found themselves under the thumb of white landowners, the rural black masses in the post-Reconstruction South were gradually subjected to a cradle-to-grave segregation regime designed not simply to separate the races but to create a permanent laboring underclass different in degree but not fundamentally in kind from the slave population of the antebellum era. By the turn of the century segregation had robbed black Southerners of their political rights as well as their economic opportunity and social mobility.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html

The battle for white supremacy, masculinity, and power are on center stage right before our eyes .. and they are losing.
 
blackascoal said:
If you've never read it, I believe you would find it deeply insightful reading into what is still prevalent in American society and what we're all still fighting to this very day.

The Slave Narratives
excerpt

Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. The large number of black people maintained as a labor force in the post-slavery South were not permitted to threaten the region's character as a white man's country, however. The region's ruling class dedicated itself to the overriding principle of white supremacy, and white racism became the driving force of southern race relations. The culture of racism sanctioned and supported the whole range of discrimination that has characterized white supremacy in its successive stages. During and after the slavery era, the culture of white racism sanctioned not only official systems of discrimination but a complex code of speech, behavior, and social practices designed to make white supremacy seem not only legitimate but natural and inevitable.

In the antebellum South, slavery provided the economic foundation that supported the dominant planter ruling class. Under slavery the structure of white supremacy was hierarchical and patriarchal, resting on male privilege and masculinist honor, entrenched economic power, and raw force. Black people necessarily developed their sense of identity, family relations, communal values, religion, and to an impressive extent their cultural autonomy by exploiting contradictions and opportunities within a complex fabric of paternalistic give-and-take. The working relationships and sometimes tacit expectations and obligations between slave and slaveholder made possible a functional, and in some cases highly profitable, economic system. Despite the exploitativeness and oppression of this system, slaves emerge in numerous antebellum slave narratives as actively, sometimes aggressively, in search of freedom, whether in the context of everyday speech and action or through covert and overt means of resistance.

Defeat in the Civil War severely destabilized slavery-based social, political, and economic hierarchies, demanding in some cases that white southerners develop new ones. After the Civil War, the southern ruling class was compelled to adapt to new exigencies of race relations and a restructured, as well as reconstructing, economic system. For African Americans, the end of slavery brought hope for unprecedented control of their own lives and economic prospects. After Emancipation, however, most black southerners found themselves steadily drawn into an exploitative sharecropping system that effectively prohibited their becoming property owners with a chance to claim their share of the American Dream. Unlike many poor whites who also found themselves under the thumb of white landowners, the rural black masses in the post-Reconstruction South were gradually subjected to a cradle-to-grave segregation regime designed not simply to separate the races but to create a permanent laboring underclass different in degree but not fundamentally in kind from the slave population of the antebellum era. By the turn of the century segregation had robbed black Southerners of their political rights as well as their economic opportunity and social mobility.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html

The battle for white supremacy, masculinity, and power are on center stage right before our eyes .. and they are losing.
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Thanks for sharing the above. While I read the excerpt above, I am interested in reading more of this.

A couple of questions:

1) What do you think causes so many AA families to remain in the south? I get not wanting to live in the upper midwest with cesspools like Michigan and Ohio (or more realistically its cold as F), but why not head west to NM, CO, AZ etc...? or maybe the Northeast (though cost of living and congestion may be good reasons not to go there)

2) How is your daughter doing? Is she back home? Hope all is well with her and your grandkid.
 
Real McCoy said:
You really have a low opinion of yourself saying you're dumb as a door knob. but then we expect nothing less from a racist.
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You're not too bright, are you?

You fit the pattern exactly of what we're talking about .. and you keep chiming in to prove it.

The subject was .. as you framed it, how great race relationships in Alabama and Florida have become. I posted facts about it, you counter with the racist belief that I belong to the Black Panthers .. who only had 6 members when they were actually relevant 50 years ago. Nor are you smart enough to know that revolutionary black groups do not support Hillary Clinton.

Education for you Doofus.

If you had a brain you would have attempted to counter with better news about relationships there .. some of which does indeed exist. But as I've said, 'better' was never the goal.

You can keep chiming in if you want to .. I'll just keep pointing out how dumb you are, and occasionally slap you with facts you can't refute again.

Welcome aboard
 
blackascoal said:
If you've never read it, I believe you would find it deeply insightful reading into what is still prevalent in American society and what we're all still fighting to this very day.

The Slave Narratives
excerpt

Close to two million slaves were brought to the American South from Africa and the West Indies during the centuries of the Atlantic slave trade. Approximately 20% of the population of the American South over the years has been African American, and as late as 1900, 9 out of every 10 African Americans lived in the South. The large number of black people maintained as a labor force in the post-slavery South were not permitted to threaten the region's character as a white man's country, however. The region's ruling class dedicated itself to the overriding principle of white supremacy, and white racism became the driving force of southern race relations. The culture of racism sanctioned and supported the whole range of discrimination that has characterized white supremacy in its successive stages. During and after the slavery era, the culture of white racism sanctioned not only official systems of discrimination but a complex code of speech, behavior, and social practices designed to make white supremacy seem not only legitimate but natural and inevitable.

In the antebellum South, slavery provided the economic foundation that supported the dominant planter ruling class. Under slavery the structure of white supremacy was hierarchical and patriarchal, resting on male privilege and masculinist honor, entrenched economic power, and raw force. Black people necessarily developed their sense of identity, family relations, communal values, religion, and to an impressive extent their cultural autonomy by exploiting contradictions and opportunities within a complex fabric of paternalistic give-and-take. The working relationships and sometimes tacit expectations and obligations between slave and slaveholder made possible a functional, and in some cases highly profitable, economic system. Despite the exploitativeness and oppression of this system, slaves emerge in numerous antebellum slave narratives as actively, sometimes aggressively, in search of freedom, whether in the context of everyday speech and action or through covert and overt means of resistance.

Defeat in the Civil War severely destabilized slavery-based social, political, and economic hierarchies, demanding in some cases that white southerners develop new ones. After the Civil War, the southern ruling class was compelled to adapt to new exigencies of race relations and a restructured, as well as reconstructing, economic system. For African Americans, the end of slavery brought hope for unprecedented control of their own lives and economic prospects. After Emancipation, however, most black southerners found themselves steadily drawn into an exploitative sharecropping system that effectively prohibited their becoming property owners with a chance to claim their share of the American Dream. Unlike many poor whites who also found themselves under the thumb of white landowners, the rural black masses in the post-Reconstruction South were gradually subjected to a cradle-to-grave segregation regime designed not simply to separate the races but to create a permanent laboring underclass different in degree but not fundamentally in kind from the slave population of the antebellum era. By the turn of the century segregation had robbed black Southerners of their political rights as well as their economic opportunity and social mobility.

http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html

The battle for white supremacy, masculinity, and power are on center stage right before our eyes .. and they are losing.
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I'm superior to you. Color has nothing to do with it.

All that bullshit you posted is nothing more than an excuse for you to whine for being a failure in life. As long as you can, in your simple mind, convince yourself black failure is the fault of white people, you'll have an excuse to avoid addressing where the problems actually lie, within the black community.
 
blackascoal said:
You're not too bright, are you?

You fit the pattern exactly of what we're talking about .. and you keep chiming in to prove it.

The subject was .. as you framed it, how great race relationships in Alabama and Florida have become. I posted facts about it, you counter with the racist belief that I belong to the Black Panthers .. who only had 6 members when they were actually relevant 50 years ago. Nor are you smart enough to know that revolutionary black groups do not support Hillary Clinton.

Education for you Doofus.

If you had a brain you would have attempted to counter with better news about relationships there .. some of which does indeed exist. But as I've said, 'better' was never the goal.

You can keep chiming in if you want to .. I'll just keep pointing out how dumb you are, and occasionally slap you with facts you can't refute again.

Welcome aboard
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You posted tripe and made excuses. Those aren't facts, boy.

You couldn't slap anyone figuratively or literally, boy.
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Probably for the same reason we have to tell Hilljacks like you not to do something stupid.
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Why would you tell me to stop doing something I don't do, NL?

But back to you statement. Blacks don't have to be told to be violent. It comes naturally. They can't help themselves.
 
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