There are too many successful black people in this country
to say that white privilege is the reason so many black people are not doing
well. One heck of a lot of white people are not doing very well either. One thing
we must realize is that the "Progressive" movement has all American
families on the decline. "White Privilege" is just another catch
phrase used by the "Progressive" movement to further divide the
country along racial lines. I have observed; however, that white people (in the
middle and upper socioeconomic classes) do seem to have somewhat of an
advantage when seeking employment, loans and other things. This step up does
not apply to lower socioeconomic class white people, Asians, Hispanics and some
other groups. 12.5 percent of our population is black, 17 percent Hispanic,
4.75 percent Asian, 2 percent are native American. Government statistics show
that over half of the population are receiving government assistance. By the
percentages, we see there are a lot of people, classed as white, who are on some
form of government assistance (26.5 percent). According
to the New York Times, blacks comprise 22
percent of the poor, but blacks only take in 14 percent of government benefits.
Conversely, whites make up 42 percent of the poor , but take in a
disproportionate 69 percent of government benefits.
In my opinion, there are basically four types of racism.
There are those who hate, those who are elitists (economically advantaged and
or superiority minded), those who hate elitists and those who use racism for
profit.
The question I would like to ask is: where else in the
world are minorities treated any better than in the United States ? My family came to the United States from England
and Germany ,
because of persecution. My wife's family came to the United
States from France
and Scotland ,
because of persecution. They all left the place of trouble; to come here to
build a better life. For the most part this country is made up of people who
wanted this better life. Assimilating into your new country seems to be the key
to success . If there is a place to better your families lives, why in the world
aren't people going there? Why are some people, who come to the United States ,
wanting to bring their old inferior culture with them?
I am not saying our country is perfect, because it is far
from perfect. Trying to make it better
is the goal of all decent Americans.
There is some question about what the Civil War was fought
over. From my research I can tell you, without doubt, in the South it was
states rights (which included a lot more than slavery) while in the north it
originally was to save the union, but later slavery became the primary issue.
President Lincoln used the issue of slavery to re-inspire the north's interest
in fighting the war. This FACT is readily researchable; don't use revisionist
history as your source.
Slavery Examples
As far as I can determine, through research, every race has
been used as slaves at one time or another. Satan wants us all to be slaves of
his, which is why he is trying to set up a One World Government and One World Religion.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord (be slaves to Jesus).
The first slave-owner in the United states was a black farmer
who owned a white slave. He lived in the north.[1]
Slavery of white people started before the slavery of black people in the Americas .
Ask the
average school child about slavery and they think only white
people had slaves. In the
sixteenth through the eighteenth century, Africans enslaved one and a half
million white Europeans. Whites were the
first people to end slavery in modern times.
"In response to
my overblown statistics, you may observe that I quote 33% of southern FAMILIES
owned slaves. Simply providing stats on what percentage of person's owned
slaves in the south in 1860 is irrelevant. 10 year old Anna Richards did not
own slaves. 5 year old Jeb Thompson did not own slaves. Yet these people are
counted in the census as potential slave owners if you interpret the data that
way. Their father, however, likely did own slaves. This is why slave owning
families and not individuals is the key to understanding 1860's census data.
Not to mention, there were over 5 million free people living in the South in
1860. There were just under 4 million slaves in the South. Some states like South Carolina actually
had more slaves than free citizens. Those most have been some Mega plantations
the south was running!"[2]
"In
1807 white Christian males in Congress passed a law to end the slave trade in America .
White Christian males then launched a war (1861 to 1865) to end slavery in America .
It s probably correct to say that 33% of white land owners owned slaves. A
slave cost about 400 for an adult male. This was a mighty princely sum at that
time. Lincoln
as a teenager worked for .25. cents a week in Tennessee in the 1820s. Obviously without
family wealth very few would have been capable of acquiring enough money to buy
a slave (white or black)."[3]
"Enslaved
African Americans could never forget their status as property, no matter how
well their owners treated them. But it would be too simplistic to say that all
masters and slaves hated each other. Human beings who live and work together
are bound to form relationships of some kind, and some masters and slaves
genuinely cared for each other. But the caring was tempered and limited by the
power imbalance under which it grew. Within the narrow confines of slavery,
human relationships ran the gamut from compassionate to contemptuous. But the
masters and slaves never approached equality. The standard image of Southern slavery is that of a large plantation
with hundreds of slaves. In fact, such situations were rare. Fully 3/4 of
Southern whites did not even own slaves; of those who did, 88% owned twenty or
fewer. Whites who did not own slaves were primarily yeoman farmers. Practically
speaking, the institution of slavery did not help these people. "[4]
"In
an 1856 letter to his wife Mary Custis Lee, Robert
E. Lee called slavery "a moral and political evil." Yet he
concluded that black slaves were immeasurably better off here than in Africa , morally, socially and physically. The fact is,
large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers
disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a
small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last
year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country.
Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states."[5]
" In
New Orleans
over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that
city."[6]
"The
Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to
the New World . His Proclamation of 1625
required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English
settlers in the West Indies . By the mid 1600s,
the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat .
At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat
were Irish slaves.
From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by
the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland ’s population fell from
about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade. Families were ripped apart as
the British did not allow Irish dads to take their wives and children with them
across the Atlantic . This led to a helpless
population of homeless women and children. Britain ’s solution was to auction
them off as well.
During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between
the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the
West Indies, Virginia and New
England . In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children)
were sold to Barbados and Virginia . Another 30,000
Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder. In
1656, Cromwell ordered that 2000 Irish children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to
English settlers."[7]
A History Lesson
13th amendment: Abolished Slavery
100 percent Republican Support
23 percent Democrat Support
14th. Amendment: Gave Citizenship To
Freed Slaves
94 percent Republican Support
0 percent Democrat Support
15th. Amendment: Right To Vote For All
100 percent Republican Support
0 percent Democrat Support
As I pointed out before,
all, I repeat all peoples were involved in slavery at one point or
another. Moslems, Christians, Jews, Arabs, Africans and many others were
involved in this abomination. The biggest problem is that it exists today. One
of its names today is human trafficking. “Human trafficking is a crime. We have
found a direct nexus between prostitution and human trafficking, and we combat
this crime by conducting undercover prostitution investigations. Whether it is
on the street or online, prostitution, and the crimes it attempts to disguise,
is illegal and we will continue to investigate and arrest those involved.” [8]
Christians in the south were involved in the twisting of
scripture to justify slavery; in the same way our Christian denominations are
twisting the scriptures from orthodoxy to social justice today. As I stated
before, all decent Americans want to make our country a better place to live.
Hate should not be a part of any Christians life, and this country was founded
on the principals of the biblical Christianity of our founders.
Racism is only one of the ways the "Progressives"
are trying to divide our country. Divide and conquer has always been a tool of
those who would take over a people. Racism, gender, economic inequality, sexual
lifestyle, climate change, religious differences, social justice and other
issues are being used to divide our country. The "Progressives" tend
to follow the methods set up by Sal Alinsky[9] as
well as Cloward and Piven. They are the superstars of the
"Progressive" movement[10]. The
people applying these principles are either dupes of the devil, or are working
hand in hand with Satan to bring about the One World Government and the One
World Religion as described in the Bible.
The slaughter of 9 people in a church in Charleston , South Carolina
was conducted by a racist druggie who hated those people because they were
black. The fact that the victims were Christians just added to Satan's pleasure
in this abomination. No matter what the cause was, 9 of my Christian brothers
and sisters are dead. No matter what the supposed cause would be, the real
cause is EVIL. The families of the victims demonstrated the love of the
Christian faith, which is the real solution to this kind of evil. They galvanized the people of Charlotte , and others
around the country, by showing the kind of forgiveness that is only available
through the Lord. The Love of God is the only solution to racism and the
healing of our country.
I am no better and no worse than any other of God's
creations. I, therefore, do not have a right to judge anybody else. I do
however reserve the right to judge those actions of others that go against the
Word of God, and also those things that I believe to be detrimental to my
country. Racism is a sickness, that is hurting my country, and I will do
anything I can to put an end to it. God created us all to be different shades
of the same color and are all members of the same, HUMAN, race. If you can't
deal with that, you are really sick.
[1] http://conservative-headlines.com/2012/03/americas-first-slave-owner-was-a-black-man/
[2] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071104192146AAgxrXL
[3] https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071104192146AAgxrXL
[4] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html
[5] http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
[6] http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveowners.htm
[7] http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/irish-the-forgotten-white-slaves-says-expert-john-martin-188645531-237793261.html
[8] Sheriff Grady Judd, Polk County Florida
[9] http://www.thespiritsnestministries.com/2011/03/rules-for-radicals-overview.html
[10] Hillary
Clinton wrote her college thesis on Alinsky and President Obama taught Alinsky
when he was a part time teacher at Harvard.
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