500 Years Later

500 Years Later... a holocaust that's STILL going on... 110 million and counting.

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[spinalcordface]

5) I am a Black/African American female. Call me what you wish, it only reflects on you. Peace

[AtLeastImHere]

Hello,

Let me educate YOU.

George Carruthers gained international recognition for his work on ultraviolet observations of the earth's upper atmosphere and of astronomical phenomena. Benjamin Banneker was a self taught scientist and mathematician who reformed the way crops were planted in the south in order to save the soil. As for the arts, you must be truly ignorant if you do not know the beauty of black culture that came from the Harlem Renaissance: Jazz, Langston Hughes, Louis Armstrong

[Derrickmwa222]

is it not strange that the US goverment has apologised for the japanese interment camps during WW2( 3- 4years), the Native americans for genocide and putting them on reservations. but they wont apologize for pretty much fucking over a whole people for generations....socially, finacially , etc. In the Begining . all we wanted was to be treated as equals in the all fields..and even that was denied.

[Derrickmwa222]

were talking about 500 years of social engineer and brainwashing. to keep a people in subjection and under control. President linchon wanted to send blacks to a colony in south america post civil war. Which in a twisted f'd up way might have been a good idea. He knew we would never be trully equal in the eyes of whites..fact...not opnoin based on the climate and mind state of the time. i dont view the founding fathers as my forefathers. More like fore-oppressor..

[Derrickmwa222]

not to mention when blacks tried to protect, educate and care for thier own through organizations like the black panther party..the US goverment tore it apart with extreme prejudice. did they replace it with a program to provide higher education and work programs for blacks..um no. they did alow drugs to pumped into the community though..and stood back and did nothing..until it started to effect white america. So lets not pretend black people were viewd are treated as true Americans.

[Derrickmwa222]

African who came to this country recently..seem to do quite well. My brother in law from sengal is a doctor. His family came here with thier culture, language and values intact. Im not saying black americans cannot accomplish the same. But truthfully we have to work 3x as hard as anyone else in the country to reach that kind of "succsess" due to 500 years of slavery, lynchings, rapes, murders, jimcrow, unfair hiring practices, seperate but un equal educational system, etc.

[Derrickmwa222]

The power structure at the time ( early white americans) made( influenced if that makes you feel better) this quasi culture of ingnorance, self hatred and sense of inferority, that went on for 500 years!! after the civil war..blacks in the north didnt have too much better socially or econmically. European immagrants ( italians, irish and others) saw blacks as a threat. Im sure you seen Gangs of New York ( they burned down black orphanges and killed black in the street.

[Derrickmwa222]

wow..so many "misinformed" people out there. To the gentlemen who refrenced the roman empire...the germanic tribes of the time were under roman domminon, were allowed to keep thier language, beliefs and religeon. As were many other conqured peoples of the time..the Hebrews, gauls, egyptians, etc. African slaves, espeacially in the america's were not only stripped of these things..but also de-humanized by law. kept uneducated by law, turned into little more than beast of burden.

[ItsFineWithMe]

@nomadista

Ripped apart? Take a look at the great Roman Empire, and the way they destroyed and conquered European nations. That lasted far longer and was far more brutal than what the British, Spanish etc. did to a few African nations, yet culture, craft, language etc. was not lost. Do you know why that is? That's because the people of Europe are intelligent. You don't lose culture, you fail to maintain it. The Germans are a great example of this. Stop blaming white people, dimwit...

[nomadista]

@ItsFineWithMe

Yes I am also confused about this. A better way of getting the same point across may have been centuries of verbal history told through music, dance and storytelling in these communities. Histories of costume, survival and craft passed down from generation to generation ripped apart!