Obviously you don't know the history of Haiti and how they were ostracized and forced by France to pay a debt that took them 122 years after they revolted against their French enslavers. Or the fact that the United States invaded the country and took over its banks for 19 years and fleeced the country.
So Hati is the millennial equivalent of an island? Takes out a loan they can't pay back and then complain about being poor?
You do know what happened in 1619 and 1865...right? First slaves in an English settlement in what would become America in 1619. 1865...end of the U.S. Civil War.
1865 to 1965..... pretty much 100 years legalized discrimination against blacks. Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. 2023 minus 1865 is 158. (Rounded down to 150)
250 years of slavery and 150 years as 2nd class citizens in what is called the United States.
Class dismissed.
This is exactly why United States history needs to taught correctly and and forcing teachers to say lies that slaves learned skills that provided benefits and that African-Americans were the perpetrators of violence during Race Riots against them.
Good information. Sorry to hear you consider yourself and other black folks 2nd class citizens today. Must be very hard for you.
Well maybe if you and many of your kind didn't discrimate based on color and ethnicity and treat people like 2nd class citizens.
So you are saying people aren't discriminated against in America based on race today and haven't been forever in this land? Is that what your small mind is trying to say.
Jews received reparations. I guess you forgot that.
They also created Israel after WWII. You forgot that as well.
Also the Jews population is an extremely small size.
Also you don't even know if most Jewish people are Jewish unless they tell you. Most are white.
I don't know what your point here is, but All of that doesn't change the fact that Jews by far have the highest income levels in the country for a group.
It must be an unjust rigged game.
It's rigged if it's white gentiles making more than blacks? But not Jews making three times what white gentiles make? That's gotta be shady stuff going on. Right?
Jewish people went through one of the worst hells in mankind and survivors received reparations. They were also given a homeland (eventhough people were already living there)
But African-Americans can't get reparations, but the slave owners (British and American) received reparations. Try to make it make sense.
Japan was burnt to the ground and nuked twice in the 1940s but Haiti is much worse off because they had to pay an unfair bill 200 years ago...
Your "dumb ass" can't do anything to help fix the level of stupid you're working with.
Whatever you’re an expert in, it isn’t history. The post-revolution Haitian government not only had the debt that France required (literally the Haitians having to pay France for their own freedom) but were also blockaded from trade, a policy instituted by the Jefferson administration, because he and others in the government and South were terrified that a successful Haiti would inspire slaves in the US to rise up and start their own revolution. The whole of Haiti was kneecapped before it could even begin.
Now Google the dates on that and see if you can figure out when 1945 happened.
The new standards require instruction for middle school students to include “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit”. I would say this is unbelievable but it’s not. DeSantis is an unapologetic stone cold racist…makes no attempt to hide. Seems he sits up late at night thinking of new ways to piss off Black people.
This is similar to saying although starving Jews in Aushwitz was bad….in some instances, it helped with obesity.
Ridiculous
The misinformation surrounding this issue is deliberate. It's egregious. It's just as bad as the "Don't say gay bill" which was nothing even close to how it was portrayed by the holders of all truth at CNN.
There's an agenda here. They see DeSantis as a legitimate threat to Biden. So they want to bury him. It's so blatantly obvious. This is clearly being fanned by activists.
Whatever you’re an expert in, it isn’t history. The post-revolution Haitian government not only had the debt that France required (literally the Haitians having to pay France for their own freedom) but were also blockaded from trade, a policy instituted by the Jefferson administration, because he and others in the government and South were terrified that a successful Haiti would inspire slaves in the US to rise up and start their own revolution. The whole of Haiti was kneecapped before it could even begin.
Now Google the dates on that and see if you can figure out when 1945 happened.
Well maybe if you and many of your kind didn't discrimate based on color and ethnicity and treat people like 2nd class citizens.
So you are saying people aren't discriminated against in America based on race today and haven't been forever in this land? Is that what your small mind is trying to say.
America is a free country. If you like to identify as a 2nd class citizen, nobody can change your mind. Is this good for you? It is debatable. Short term benefit is you can always cry victim and get some sympathy pay. Long term harm is you will eventually lose self respect, confidence and winning mentality.
You like comparisons of blacks against Jews. It seems the biggest difference is Jews have strong beliefs, strive for success, and puts education and hard work first and foremost. Jews are famous for being capitalists, scientists, and engineers. They were discriminated, persecuted, and surrounded by enemies, but they could always come back. In comparison, blacks are famous for being artists, athletes, and activists. You need more than physical strength, entertainment skills, and empty talks to overcome adversities.
Very much apples and oranges. The discrimination faced by Jews and other white ethnic minorities was of a different flavor than what Black people went through. The US Supreme Court ruled that Black people were never intended to be citizens and could never have the rights of white people. The socioeconomic devastation that came with slavery persisted beyond Reconstruction in the form of Jim Crow, redlining, the denial of benefits and overpolicing. What do you think literacy rates were in the recently freed slave population?
This is the problem with not knowing and not caring how we arrived to the current day. The ignorant say, “well people have hated Jews forever and look how successful they are, why can’t Black people just get their crap together” because they don’t care to know the facts and differences between those histories.
I just came in from a run and told my wife, "babe, do you know the Emmett Till story?" She said, "no?".. I said, exactly. That's why black history needs to be taught in America. We are two highly educated Americans and we've never heard this story. 14-year old black kid flirts with a white girl and is absolutely destroyed... murderers admit killing the kid and they are acquitted. It's unfreaking believable, as we have a 14-year old daughter who is hispanic.
They need to tell MORE of these stories, not less.
I just came in from a run and told my wife, "babe, do you know the Emmett Till story?" She said, "no?".. I said, exactly. That's why black history needs to be taught in America. We are two highly educated Americans and we've never heard this story. 14-year old black kid flirts with a white girl and is absolutely destroyed... murderers admit killing the kid and they are acquitted. It's unfreaking believable, as we have a 14-year old daughter who is hispanic.
They need to tell MORE of these stories, not less.
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