White slavery and being robbed of ones own history

I've lived in South America and penned a thesis on Bolivar, while you can't spell 'then'. I'll elaborate your point for you. Hispanic is an ethnicity referring to a mixture of Spanish and indigenous Americans. There was a strict caste system which very strictly prevented land ownership to Mestizo peoples. This became more relaxed as time passed into the 18th century where more of the population became Mestizo.

That ethnic group did exist both formally and in Spanish law since the 1500's, when the conquistadors started invasions of South America, but the first two centuries involved extremely disparate colonies, and much smaller populations.

The 1700's brought about rapid growth in the America's which, which combined with pressures brought on Spain due to the Napoleonic wars and ethnic tensions from the strict Spanish casta system led to the South American wars of independence.

 

You seem to be forgetting the estimated 1 million that died during the atlantic crossing.

When they uncovered the slave cemetery in New York City the bones of children showed signs of advanced arthritis, osteoporosis, and other illnesses common to the elderly - as if they were worked literally to death


Hotwater

 

Naw, the Cartwrights were too nice for that, he was 'contract labor'

 

Not explicitly, but yes of that era! Good call

 

an IQ of 162 you say?



*biting my tongue*

 

Dont mistake aptitude and conceptual knowledge for factual knowledge. History buffs aren't necessarily geniuses like geniuses aren't necessarily history buffs (clearly) lol.

 

Still though you’d expect a little more from someone who proclaims to be a member in good standing with the Omega Society


Hotwater

 

Hm.. I didn't know about this part.

True dat!

Though that sort of thing is less about what you know, and more about who you know

 

Imma gonna be a good boy and keep biting my tongue

 

Hotwater

 

There's nothing wrong with not knowing a thing of course. My own history education in school wasn't very good. We covered American history 'till Reconstruction 3 times (4th, 7 and 10th grades) and we never got up to the 20th century.

What was World War 1 all about? Gold? The Pope? The Hooky Pooky?

 

No mam HippyInLove, what I object to is the concept of race as a real thing, pseudo-intellectual mock outrage when learning a historical fact, and all this us versus them crap.

 

White guilt

 

Actually, I think weed becoming illegal had more to do with the threat of hemp to big businesses than it had to do with any single group of people. It may have been spun that way but big business ruled as much back then as it does today. It was all about business.

 

You didn't do anything to become white to be proud of, and you've never enslaved anyone while being white to be ashamed of.

My point is that this thread should be overtaken by the show your skin thread, and then everybody would get along.

 

Slavery is still happening, not just in vague terms, but explicitly. I think a lot of these conversations can't really go anywhere because of semantics. Look at the first couple pages. I've known people who were enslaved in the 80's or 90's. Not black people. Slavery is just human history. But, the reason black slavery is significant is because of the impact it continues to have on the cultures within the Americas, due to the destruction of the family unit. Black people are still trying to figure out how to put together decent families, due to not having the continuity of that culture. Dysfunctional families creates dysfunctional people...

Still I don't think people should depend on a public or even private school education for their knowledge. There are so many tons of information that is never going to be shared in an academic setting that is certainly important...but it's not exactly about giving children complete knowledge. It's business.

 

It's these type of things that keep rascism alive...

 

What types of things AceK? Slavery has nothing to do with race.

 

The way they teach history in school, they focus on it too much and don't paint the full picture...and they don't really teach any history much more recent than the civil rights movement in school...so that's the impression that's left of what things are like today, that was half a century ago! Our young youth don't need to grow up with the wrong mindset and world views.

 

Oh yeah...that's a good point. You're right about that.