Why Can't you just gracefully accept a compliment?
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T. A. Gardner
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Oh, they made racial ones too. Hittites, Sea Peoples, Nubians, etc. These weren't simply cultural distinctions but ones of race too.
T. A. Gardner
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Actually, the lead construction was done by skilled artisans and tradesmen who knew their profession. Statues sculpted from stone didn't carve themselves and some farmer in the off season wasn't doing that. Sure, grunt workers might have been something like that to earn extra cash, but the core of the construction was done by professional, skilled labor.
Well, close, debatable, how do you evaluate who did the most, but slavery did establish the South, enough so that they could challenge the rest of the country in war
Jake Starkey
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No, those are ethnicities not racial. You are simply wrong.
T. A. Gardner
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The vast majority of Blacks that came to the US were as slaves. There were some free Blacks too, but all in all most lived in Southern states. The majority of the economy in those states was what today would be called agribusiness. That is, large plantations and farms run by rich, sometimes absent, owners who grew cash crops primarily for export.
Even there, the vast majority of Blacks were employed in basic manual labor tasks. This is akin to many other immigrant groups like the Irish and Chinese (railway and canal construction) or Germans (factory workers, military troops, and trade labor). The South went to war with the North using their White population. Few, if any, Blacks were used by the South as troops. In the North, there was a general reluctance to form Black units for combat and those formed were generally looked on unfavorably. That is a trend that continued through the 1950's until the military was desegregated. Even then, Blacks continued to be seen as inferior as manpower. Those are historical facts.
On the whole, Blacks did contribute to building America, but their role was never central to or so significant it outweighed the contributions of other ethnicities.
volsrocks
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Teflon Don
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Really? What is that outside of outright disability? And I would argue that there are very few absolute disabilities that would keep anyone from doing any job.
But like I said, you have already conceded the point. Care to retract your prior statements that “there are jobs people won’t do”? Coloreds are people right?
No the blacks who our ghetto culture feral thugs descended from haven't done shit over there in thousands of years.
T. A. Gardner
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One of the largest construction projects of its day--the early 19th century--was the construction of the Erie Canal. This was, for the time on the scale of what was possible, akin to the US building the Panama Canal. The engineers, surveyors, management, and people running the project weren't Black. Few of the workers were Black. The workforce was almost entirely White.
As for the White House, I would bet looking into it you'd find few Blacks doing any sort of skilled or trade / journeyman job constructing the White House. That doesn't argue that they were essential to the project but rather available basic manual labor and used as such.
Wrong.
"Nubians are an ethnic group indigenous to the Nubia region, which stretches from southern Egypt to northern Sudan. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization. In the southern valley of Egypt, Nubians differ culturally and ethnically from Egyptians, although they intermarried with them and other ethnic groups, especially Arabs."
Nubians - Wikipedia
T. A. Gardner
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I am correct. "Nubians differ culturally and ethnically from Egyptians..." Just what I stated.Wrong.
"Nubians are an ethnic group indigenous to the Nubia region, which stretches from southern Egypt to northern Sudan. They originate from the early inhabitants of the central Nile valley, believed to be one of the earliest cradles of civilization. In the southern valley of Egypt, Nubians differ culturally and ethnically from Egyptians, although they intermarried with them and other ethnic groups, especially Arabs."
Nubians - Wikipedia
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You said Egyptians of the time called them Nubians because they were black, without mentioning their different culture and ethnicity.
T. A. Gardner
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They were Black, and they had a distinct culture and ethnicity. What do you think "ethnicity" means?
They were not called Nubians because of their color.
"Mainstream Western scholars reject the notion that Egypt was a "white" or "black" civilization; they maintain that applying modern notions of black or white races to ancient Egypt is anachronistic.
In addition, scholars reject the notion – implicit in a black or white Egypt hypothesis – that ancient Egypt was racially homogeneous; instead, skin colour varied between the peoples of Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt, and Nubia, who rose to power in various eras of ancient Egypt."
What makes you think calling someone a racist is a compliment, Stooge?
...and that's always been true, whether it's building an ancient city in the middle of Africa, building a pyramid in Egypt, Asia, or America, or building modern cities across Africa and elsewhere.
Slavery did not establish the South or anywhere else, anchovies.
I might also point out the South lost the War of Secession.