I addressed that issue above. But -- not that I want to get drawn into this entire discussion of race -- you don't actually know what he allegedly meant by his alleged words. Maybe he was talking about white people in North America, since the U.S. as we know it did develop and become a piece of land worth fighting over from a thriving slave trade (in part from the famous Atlantic triangle trading system) generally run by white people. Maybe he was concatenating the various societies into a continuum. Or maybe he was just drunk and stupid and a rapist and not rehearsing what his drunk and stupid rapist arse was spouting. Maybe it's all of these things. Maybe it's nothing. Who can say what the truth is in a world that has killed Santa Claus?

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Posted by farmer brown

St.Clair County, Al

Member since Sep 2012

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:00 pm to randomways

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Maybe he was talking about white people in North America, since the U.S. as we know it did develop and become a piece of land worth fighting over from a thriving slave trade (in part from the famous Atlantic triangle trading system) generally run by white people. Maybe he was concatenating the various societies into a continuum.

Why are the sellers of slaves in Africa never indited in this "white slavery" issue? While I am against slavery in any form, it is still a part of this subject. Black people sold black people to white people. Even Native Americans bought black slaves. My Indian ancestors were slaves to the Cherokee. They were Catawba/Creek Indians, but enumerated in the Guion Miller commission census as slaves. It is not just a white problem. The triangle of trade was slaves from Africa taken to the colonies, then, sugar cane to England for rum, and then back to Africa.

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Posted by BrerTiger

Valley of the Long Grey Cloud

Member since Sep 2011

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 11:43 pm to randomways

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not that I want to get drawn into this entire discussion of race -- you don't actually know what he allegedly meant by his alleged words. Maybe he was talking about white people in North America, since the U.S. as we know it did develop and become a piece of land worth fighting over from a thriving slave trade (in part from the famous Atlantic triangle trading system) generally run by white people. Maybe he was concatenating the various societies into a continuum. Or maybe he was just drunk and stupid and a rapist and not rehearsing what his drunk and stupid rapist arse was spouting. Maybe it's all of these things. Maybe it's nothing. Who can say what the truth is in a world that has killed Santa Claus?

Underrated post.