Do you think that whites are responsible for slavery?

	Do you think that whites are responsible for slavery? I can only imagine what would happen if black people were collectively blamed, as a race, for anything. A white friend of mine, in a crazy moment, made an off the cuff remark about how blacks are to blame for the recession because they are all on welfare and food stamps. He was promptly fired but not before a black manager in human resources told him "part of our Zero Tolerance policy is not to discriminate against any race for any reason." So what about discriminated against a race And for a reason? Last time I checked, whites, also known as Caucasians, are a race. Therefore, to say that slavery is a crime that white people committed, as a race, is as much a violation of any zero tolerance policy than any other racist comment. Right? Slavery happened. No one denies it. I am not going to say like the President of Iran says that the Holocaust never happened that slavery never happened. But to blame a past injustice on a race, and to waste taxpayer funds that could be used to help our country, is used to hurt a race just as the Nazis spread propaganda in a tax supported attack against the Jews. To say that slavery is wrong is correct. To say that what individual slaveowners did to individual slaves was wrong is correct. But to blame a race for that is also wrong and it is also racist. There are some black leaders and black organizations that talk about this. They talk about the problem of the crime of slavery of the white race against the black race. They also talk about the solution to that problem of centuries ago by saying that because white people are harmful to our environment, that it is best if they all die off- even if we have to kill them ourselves. So this is how it goes. White people are to blame for black slavery. Whites need to feel personally responsible for slavery of blacks. Whites need to understand that their presense on this earth is unhealthy. Whites should not be allowed to reproduce. All whites should have their sexual organs removed. All white babies should be aborted. All white people need to be cleaned up off the face of this earth, even if black people must exterminate them on if they are unwilling to take their own lives through abuse or suicide. Hitler didn't start by telling the Germans to put Jews in the gas chamber. He had to start with blaming the Jews for Germany's problems. So why are blacks blaming whites for their problems? And what part of the Final Solution by blacks against whites doesn't sound like another Final Solution that was orchestrated by other racists? The world community doesn't blame the white race for the Holocaust. The world community doesn't blame Germans for the Holocaust. We blame Hitler and the individual Nazis who were tried as war criminals. When the Civil War was over, we didn't have a criminal trials for individual slave owners. Former slave owners were not arrested. So why do we now put an entire race under arrest, hundreds of years after it ended. As a person of color, I face discrimination on a daily basis. I have had to listen to white friends at work tell me "if I was you, I doubt they'd lay me off. And if they did, I'd be able to get another job filling an affirmative action quota in no time." Comments like that are racist and they do offend me. But this is something that an individual said and I don't come back and say "I've had it with you white people. You're the ones who put us in chains of slavery. Maybe you deserve to g******d off because of that." Answering racism with racism is not the answer. Asked By: OldBro - 10/20/2011

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Well first your friend is an idiot. In point of fact most people on public assistance in the US are white. But public assistance didn't cause the recession. If anything it's lessened the blow of it by providing a stream of revenue to people. There's still debate over the causes of the current recession and as with any large complex event we likely won't have a definitive answer for years or decades. But in general it was the result of poor management of the financial industry. So far from being the fault of poor welfare recipients the current recession is the fault of wealthy financial workers. As for slavery it depends what you mean "responsible for". Slavery is the norm in human history in that most societies through most of our history have practiced some form of slavery. White people didn't invent it, it sprang up independently in various areas around the globe. But when we in the West talk about "Slavery" we primarily mean the Atlantic Slave Trade and the American slave system that sprang up in the 16th century and continued through the end of the 19th century. Some apologists for whites like to argue that the participation of Africans as sellers in the Atlantic Slave Trade somehow exculpates whites for their guilt. I think that's ludicrous. If someone sells you a gun and so you can go kill someone that doesn't remove your guilt for doing the shooting. Whites were the primary consumers of slaves in the Atlantic Slave Trade. Furthermore, whites are wholly responsible for the establishment of the American slave system and the plantation system which lay at its heart. The latter is regarded by most historians as a particularly brutal system of slavery which in the Caribbean became a charnel house for enslaved people. Answered By: Historyguy - 10/20/2011

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We need more Affirmative Action for everybody- how about quotas for men - as teachers, receptionists, nurses. quotas for short people in basketball. quotas for the physically challenged in the army & mentally challenged in scientific research. Everybody shd have quotas. Answered By: Free Birdi - 10/22/2011

First of all we are at least 7-8 generations removed from slavery. Blacks have had every opportunity to better themselves since in the last 50 years. They have had the same opportunities as everyone else with the advantages of affirmative action, free college, and preferential treatment in hiring for city, state, and federal jobs. They have received reparations in the form of every kind of government assistance imaginable (food stamps, section 8 housing, HUD, Medicaid, and countless others.) What today's history books fail to teach is that slavery was caused by blacks themselves. Blacks of a certain tribe would capture other blacks of a different tribe, take them to the coastal area of Africa and sell them into slavery to other blacks and people who would send them on to North America. Without these black captors, slavery would have never made it to the American shores. These are FACTS that can be read in thousands of books at the local library. I have found that there is only one website on the net that tells the truth about blacks and their culture. You can check it out at: http://tinyurl.com/c95t53 Answered By: Ace - 10/22/2011

Slavery is as old as mankind. The Egyptians, the Persians, the Indians and the Chinese all practised slavery before anyone in Europe got round to it. Slavery was also practised within Africa - eg in the Empire of Ghana from around the eighth century. Regarding the period of history you presumably refer to, the Arabs were as guilty as the Europeans. And don't forget that every African taken as a slave by a European had first been enslaved and sold on by his fellow African. Answered By: Lomax - 10/20/2011

No. Do you really believe a boatload of white guys could just pull up on a beach in Africa and round up a few hundred of the continents fiercest warriors? And to do over and over and over again without any retribution? If you believe that you have a very low opinion on the fighting skills of the African warrior. Slaves were taken from one tribe by another as prisoners in battle,,then sold to the slave traders for guns and such. Answered By: TB12 - 10/20/2011

While passing through Answers on Yahoo, I read this, you have some interest in this topic, suggest attaining more information on historical events prior to recent events, possibly pre-history to figure out time=line of all humans ancestry, eventually you will find that we are related, and colour or culture, or train of thought, all evolve from the same tribes or habitats of peoples from many thousands of years ago, and then some, your main question: Do you think that whites are responsible for slavery? , technically from within context of your referencing, one could agree, but other details in your analogy, one can disagree on a whole, it may not be correct to simply color of skins to implicate powers, or rulings, or knowledge, there are many missing links historically to all continental connections, try to find those for better understanding of who we are as a species, not merely race, or creed, or terminological renderings by word, free yourself from propaganda of rhetoric, and find yourself a thought to open doors, New England Slavery http://sine_1.tripod.com/INDEX.htm George Washington Carve, http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington_Carver Gutenberg > Slavery http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search.html/?format=html&default_prefix=all&sort_order=&query=Slavery .. Answered By: 　☥♡☮　 - 10/20/2011

Slavery is an old practice that predates any recorded history, it is even practiced in some localized parts of Africa. Pygmy people in small tightly knitted communities are trafficked and sold for domestic household slavery. You might not have realized it but the Moors and Arabs also enslaved over 3 million Europeans and brought them to costal in North/western africa.Arabs had started slavery in east africa (excluding Axum and Saparone and Zeila) before islam in 400.AD. Unlike the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the New World, Arabs supplied African slaves to the Muslim world, which at its peak stretched over three continents from the Atlantic (Morocco, Spain) to India and eastern China. Source(s): :P Answered By: Lazy ketchup - 10/20/2011

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