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pattigurlatl 
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 5:47pm |
 rickysrose wrote:
these people were racism's scapegoats
like the popular saying "black on black crime"
deflecting white responsibility as though whites had nothing to do with it
now should they have relished being a scapegoat of course not ... unfortunately they didn't look the gift horse in the mouth
the alternative then was unimaginable horrors and enslavement ... but now anyone should be ashamed for carrying on that legacy
question is ... are we?
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I agree with you. And people need to understand that it was a difficult predicament for these people. People who on one hand had to reject family members in public for the safety of everyone's lives in some cases.
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 3:05pm |
pattigurlatl wrote:
binky622 wrote:
they are worse than whites |
Some were. But most I think used the opportunity to buy their family.
Remember it was dangerous for them too. I read of some who did so and
then they all ended up getting kidnapped and sold as slaves even though
they were legally free.
If I can find the one slave narrative,
there is one with a picture of a man who looks like a tanned white
person and then there are 2 kids who look white. The man was a slave and
they looked poor as hell.
But that man was considered black. |
yes I hope this is what it was too. Or they bought them so they could help them in some way.
Edited by PurpleHaze - Feb 13 2013 at 3:05pm
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:32pm |
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:31pm |
these people were racism's scapegoats
like the popular saying "black on black crime"
deflecting white responsibility as though whites had nothing to do with it
now should they have relished being a scapegoat of course not ... unfortunately they didn't look the gift horse in the mouth
the alternative then was unimaginable horrors and enslavement ... but now anyone should be ashamed for carrying on that legacy
question is ... are we?
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rickysrose
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:24pm |
racism created this "honorary" white but still black class to further reinforce white dominance and to shame the black consciousness into oblivion
the horrors of slavery made it extremely difficult to go against the grain of white dominance, going with the grain of racism was at first, a reprehensible matter of survival ... like an overflowing lake that's suddenly given a river to divert to
once we realize the conditions and tactics racism used to implement the racist agenda ... it'll be easier for us to abandon them
instead of blaming each other for them
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:18pm |
I know some Metoyer's from NO. they are mulatto but claim full black
i wonder if there is some connection
anywhoo i remember s/o and I visited Laura's Plantation in Gramercy, LA and one of the women was said to be of african descent. she tried to bleach her skin and wound up poisoning herself
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:15pm |
this is exactly what miscegenation is supposed to accomplish
again I wouldn't blame the victims or tools of racisms
they were pawns and unfortunately didn't even know it
the anti-miscegenation laws further prove the destructive intentions the racist establishment had for creating this socio-economic class
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^^the US did something like that...after the EP went into effect, Lincoln sent some newly freed slaves to some island in the Caribbean as a sort of soft test of repatriation of slaves (which in effect would have been similar to an ethnic cleansing)
I forgot what it was called, and I just read a book about it...let me try to find it...
Edited by Ladybird0724 - Feb 13 2013 at 1:23pm
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 1:00pm |
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the uk and a few other european countries had a 'repatriation' (rather purging) of emancipated slaves back to the mother land
some of these then went back and 'civilised' their home countries employing discriminatory practices with disastrous effects that still reverberate to this day
e.g liberia
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Posted: Feb 13 2013 at 12:18pm |
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hmmm interesting rummie
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