Lately I have been thinking alot about race relations, in particular racism. Being born and raised in Oklahoma I am all too accustomed to the racism of the so called "common man." I found my self especially dissapointed in my home state upon recieving a whole host of racist joke texts from friends not an hour after President Obama was elected to office. The middle eastern community has been getting alot of Haterade as of late but the one race that always manages to come in first is the African American community. America's lurid history with slavery is easily mentioned whenever such issues are raised. I thought we had risen above seperate but equal yet anytime the AA community is mentioned by the AA community speration is the first thing that's clarified. Fingers are pointed and it becomes a big mess.
I personaly have never took the time to learn anything about slavery beyond what I was told in history class, (mainly because I do not give a shit, the indians were treated worse) but as I have discovered over the past few years, those textbooks have left out quite an abundance, to say the least. So I decided to look up the true history and the results I found were quite a shock.
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Before we start, know that I am not racist at all. My immediate family is quite the opposite of racist and I very enthusiasticly share their values so I figured my oppinion on this matter would be completely unbias. Turns out that I was wrong. The actual definition attributes its self to being without a bias or focus towards any one side's position. This would include no predetermined assumptions or thoughts on the matter. That would mean political correctness is bias. Because it is done in order to avoid the harm of any person's feelings. This would be catering to a position. It is actually catering to both positions, which is, in turn, not not catering to a position. It is for this reason that I will refrain from these politicaly correct terms and phrases I am accustomed to using in my normal life and proceed to use completely common terms like "White" and "Black" for the remainder of this article. Thank you and let the re-education begin. * * * *
The first record of African slavery in British Colonial America (White) was in 1619 almost 100 years later. They were brought over by two pirate ships. One was English (White) and one was Dutch (White.) These slaves were not baught by these ships though. They were actually captured from a Portuguese (not White) ship during a battle. When the English and Dutch ships arrived to the American colony the residents of the colony were sick and dying. There were not alot of able bodied workers available because of it. The ships had alot of damage from their previous battle and were also low on money and supplies. So the ships traded 30 slaves to the colony for food and supplies. These 30 slaves joined a workforce of 1000 indentured servants. These 1000 servants were not African. They were mostly English, but some were Scottish and some were German (all three of which are severely White in origin.) This made me wonder what exactly is an endentured servant? It sounds negative.
An Indentured servant is a person that would work for a landowner for a prenegotiated amount of time. After this alotted amount of time was up they were considered free citizens and given supplies and land by their previous masters to have. So what does one do with their new found freedom? Well obtain indentured servants of your own of course, some of which were African. More than half of all White immigrants to the English colonies of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries were indentured servants. The process of indentured servanthood was well liked by the people who participated in it because they came from places that were very poor and it offered them freedom and afforded them with the opportunity to have their own land and become wealthy. That sounds equally opportunistic to me.
No let's talk a little bit about a man named Anthony Johnson. A.J. was a former indentured servant from Africa. He became a wealthy landowner on the Eastern shore of the US. Once he became successful he, quite naturally, obtained indentured servants of his own. As a matter of fact in 1654, John Casor, an African, became the first legally recognized slave in the present United States. A court in Northampton County ruled against Casor, declaring him property for life. A bit harsh. Guess who he lost the case to and was subsequently "owned" by because of it? A Black colonist named Anthony Johnson. Good 'ol AJ.
It is an important fact to know that one of the forms of punishment when a person broke the law in these early colonies was to make them a permenant slave. This was done regaurdless of what race they were. If I am not mistaken this was done in almost all cultures throughout history. Slavery was not something new to the 1800's. It didn't just show up out of no where. It existed long before any Africans were present in North America and it has effected and exploited any and every race in the process. Not just the African race. The Africans actually had African slaves in Africa before they were brought here.
One could say that this indentured servant idea was pretty good right? It turned out not to be. The problem with indentured servanthood was what the servants did when they finished their alotted time. Most were unsuccessful at farming and became part of the growing population of underclass (poor.) So basically these slaves, which were White and non White alike mind you, were given supplies and land (opportunity) but they failed to capiltalize on it. That sounds like something that would be completely their fault. Now you could say that their failure was due to the fact that they did not have any formal education but we are talking about farmming here. It's not like they were asked to preform scientific calculations. I am not saying farming isn't difficult. It is quite difficult and I am 100% certain that I could never do it. I'm saying it's not brain surgery. I know this because the Indians managed to do it successfully for 100's and quite possibly 1000's of years before anyone else was here and they had no education system at all.
The indentured servants lived and worked on farms that rapidly succeeded. They were taught how to do the primary work and saw the results of that work. That sounds like a pretty hands on education. They knew what it took to make a farm work. If their farm did not work, that is their fault. If a student takes a Math class and gets an A in that Math class then comes out of school and gets a Math question wrong is it then the teacher's fault?
Blacks and Whites weren't the only race of people to be enslaved in the US either. Indians were also sold as slaves. They were sold to masters (that includes Whites and Blacks and Indians) by fellow Indians. Once again a race sells their own race. You can't really get mad at another race for that can you?
We can not move forward to the future unless we can move forward from the past. Forgiveness is the solution. Forgiveness is freedom. Freedom from the baggage and the burden of offence. Forgiveness defeats all because it allows for no retaliation. I learned that from a pastor.
In closing, If by some chance this article was not bold enough for you than this next sentence will take care of that. If you are not Indian, you are an immagrant. That's right fuckers you are all immigrants. Once again ha ha ha.
Indians, that is Native Americans, were not given full American citizenship or the right to vote until the 1960's. Not the 1860's like the blacks the 1960's. If anyone deserves to be called an American it's the Indians. Yet these people weren't even given citizenship or the right to vote for the leader of their country til the 60's. That is utterly rediculous. Now, as an Indian am I upset about that? Yeah kinda but it doesn't really surprise me. The US govt has been screwing the indians above anyone else for at least 200 years now. Am I offended or hurt by it? No because I realize that those same Indians that were finally granted full citizen ship in the 60's were the same Indians that faught so hard to make sure the US government federally recognized the fact that they were a "seperate" soverign nation. I do not like seperatism in any race even my own. We can never be equal if we seperate ourselves.
The point is, if you're not where you want to be in life or where you think you should be, do not blame your race. Blame your self. It is not because you are black, indian, gay or fat that you are a loser, it is because of you. Stop blaming other people and races and get off your ignorant ass and make something of your self. Take off the stupid fucking baggy jeans that sag down below your ass and the extremely long t-shirts (this includes the whites and indians that I see do this on a daily basis as well) and go to school you dumbass. Act like a decent fucking human being and stop blaming whites for all your problems and maybe, just maybe you'll get somewhere in life.
The indians were treated worse and so were the Irish. As a matter of fact the Irish were the only race of people in America at the time to be considered lower than the blacks. The Irish were even paid less then black people. There were daily cartoons published in national newspapers making fun of the Irish. And back during the Cival War the Union soldiers use to cutt off indian woman's breasts and made fucking tabacco pouches out of them. This was done after they massacered the entire village, murdering men woman and children and raping the women. Be lucky you were given food and shelter because they made the indians walk half way across the fuckin country without food or supplies and when they got to where they were forced to walk to the govt said "ya know that land we promised you, yeah well you're not gonna get it. Instead we're gonna shove you in a cow pen and give you fucking diseaded blankets." So fuck off black people. Why don't you think about that Al Sharpton, next time you ask for a fuckin apology on CNN or Foxnews you stupid ignorant fuck! How about an apology to the Original Americans or the Irish.
And what about the Jews? The fuckin pyramids were built on the backs of Jewish slaves. I'm betting that building giant fucking buildings in the desert is way harder then picking fucking cotton on a farm. Dumb fucks. Not to mention the Hollocaust. I don't remember them putting millions of fucking black people in ovens. Fuck off!
...and for fuck's sake stop calling each other the fuckin N word. How dumb are you. "We used so it wouldn't hurt us." No you use it cause you're fucking ignorant and you don't get it.
Ok that's enough I can't take anymore of the bullshit.
Peace out Niggas!
P.S. I know there's spelling errors on these last two. I typed them on WordPad and it has no spell check. Sorry.
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