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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    I’m hearing the constitution condoned slavery
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,868 Standard Supporter

    I’m hearing the constitution condoned slavery

    Ask Owl or H - noted Constitutional scholars.

    I actually typed that with a straight face. I'm fucking hilarious.
  • Bendintheriver
    Bendintheriver Member Posts: 7,240 Standard Supporter
    That was an excellent article. Thank you.

  • SFGbob
    SFGbob Member Posts: 33,215
    I will note that my recent book Taboo: Ten Facts You Can’t Talk About makes this same point at some length, pointing out that quite a few contemporary Black problems have very little to do with slavery. For example, the Black rate of “illegitimate” out-of-wedlock childbirths was 11 percent in 1938, barely 70 years after slavery ended, but today hovers around 74 percent—and the illegitimacy rate today is approximately 35 percent for American whites. The welfare policies of the 1960s frankly have been a greater cause of this multi-colored social issue than racialized oppression 150 years ago. The same could be said of a dozen other issues, from opioid and cocaine abuse to high rates of local incarceration, which seem to bedevil our poor white countrymen roughly as much as blacks, while having little effect on West Indian immigrants who are also almost entirely descended from slaves.

    That just an example of how selective and pernicious whitey's racism really is in America.
  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,868 Standard Supporter
    SFGbob said:

    I will note that my recent book Taboo: Ten Facts You Can’t Talk About makes this same point at some length, pointing out that quite a few contemporary Black problems have very little to do with slavery. For example, the Black rate of “illegitimate” out-of-wedlock childbirths was 11 percent in 1938, barely 70 years after slavery ended, but today hovers around 74 percent—and the illegitimacy rate today is approximately 35 percent for American whites. The welfare policies of the 1960s frankly have been a greater cause of this multi-colored social issue than racialized oppression 150 years ago. The same could be said of a dozen other issues, from opioid and cocaine abuse to high rates of local incarceration, which seem to bedevil our poor white countrymen roughly as much as blacks, while having little effect on West Indian immigrants who are also almost entirely descended from slaves.

    That just an example of how selective and pernicious whitey's racism really is in America.




    Viva descendants of sugar cane slaves.

    Pon du Replay dat shit.