Though a minority a white people held slaves, slavery was an economic and social force that served a majority of white people. There is a myriad of ways white America as a whole enjoyed the benefits of slavery, whether they made money from insuring slaves (like Aetna), utilized skilled slave labor for their consumable…

According to your logic black people should be chomping at the bit to enslave, dehumanize and kill white people as a reaction to American chattel slavery. And yet, we’re not.

Anyone else notice that white people are the only race that’s active in this ‘race war’ they keep trying to spark?

Why?

When one says slavery built this country, one means in in both a physical and financial sense.

Those who believe black people should just “get over” slavery are the same people who spend their entire lives fighting to lower the inheritance tax with no sense of irony AT ALL.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. 

Native Americans have received redress for their injuries. Black Americans have not.

No one is saying one person’s suffering is worse than others. What I am saying is that what happened to black Americans didn’t happen to other other group in America.

When you compare other minorities struggles to the struggles of slaves and their descendants WHO BUILT THIS FUCKING COUNTRY AND RECEIVED NONE OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR 250 YEARS OF LABOR then you don’t know enough about this topic to have an educated conversation.

We need to talk about how this “steel slat” situation is a giant ass grift.

My post didn’t attack Obama. To make it plain, it states that we need more than melanin in order for us to support someone. We need policy. If you feel like that attacks Obama, you may need to reevaluate ya boy.

He wasn’t the president of only black people, but he made damn sure that it was only black people he spoke to when he said he would be “personally offended” if we didn’t vote for Hilary.

Anti -Obama troll? Because I want a president with policy that will help us instead of a president that will sing ‘Amazing Grace’?

She is announcing on the day we commemorate a man who gave his life for 2 groups: descendants of American chattel slavery and poor people. She damn well better come to the bargaining table with policy that will help those groups, or she will be proving herself to be a woman who uses blackness in the same way Barack…

This song fuckin rocks.

This story pleases me.

I can’t wait until the boomers die off. Their generational dominance will officially come to an end in 2019, when there will be more millennials than boomers.

May this be a harbinger of bad things to come for the racists and fascists.

The chances of that are slim to null. I just hope that a combination of enough white people stay home and enough minorities come out to make a difference.