Stop talking about Slave trade which only whites gave account of. For whites, Africans traded their people and they bought them. Even Arabs bought them too. All these are pure lies. I wonder what the Africans who witnessed all these must be saying in their grave today. Whites wrote the book the way it suits them so not to take the blame alone.

Who could say if whites were not abducting those slaves in thousands and selling them to Arabs and their European and American friends. At the time of slave trade, whites have already sophisticated weapons to conquer Africa and shoot any soul that could stop them from abducting those slaves.

Just for your info, whites never considered Africans human from the beginning they met. There was even one African woman, the French killed her and brought her to their museum to show the French public because they have never seen such creature before looking exactly like human creature. I forgot the name of the woman but make investigation and you will see what I am saying.

I will never buy your police story.

As for Asians doing better than blacks, yes they do because whites let them do. Go back to your history book and read about east African colonization during the british empire. British imported indians in their colonies and use them to make Africans work. They have already preference for these people and support them from the beginning. Something Africans never had from whites. Even when Africans do better, whites are so much astonished. It is like seeing a dog checking hands for them. There has never been any support from whites to Africans. It is all sad stories and it is the reason why I will never sit for white to decide for me. It is time blacks decide for themselves and that is why I like what La Shawn is doing.

As for blacks going to Islam, Christianity never offered them the peace that Islam does. Christianity slaved them, segregated them and blessed all slave owners and even the hardcore racist in America are fundamentalist christians.
For me the future is Islam and I am happy they find solace in it. Whites offer nothing and even their religion.

The African woman was dubbed “Hottentot Venus,” and they didn’t kill her, although they did treat her like an animal, studying her anatomy and exhibiting her like a side show. Another correction: the most “hardcore racists” in American come in all shapes, sizes, skin colors, races and religious affiliations. – Admin

Thats right in her fantastic post Do You Hate Black People, La Shawn offers up several examples of failed liberal policies, tired liberal mantras and offers several new ideas. Which as I have always maintained is the “Liberal Thing to do”.

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There are blacks that hate America, but they are not alone. Hate is rarely in short supply.

Anyway, there is an element in the black population that is a prime target for Islamic conversion, by leveraging their anger at society. Kinda like the element that joins the neonazi groups. Or mime troups.

As for AA and diversity, I think that as a tie-breaker, they still have value. That is, when you have multiple candidates of equal skill/experience, I see nothing wrong with picking the person that brings something different to the company/team, by virtue of background/culture. This would of course vary from situation to situation.
But, I am also coming from the IT sector, where I am currently the token white citizen in the dept.

By FBI Statistics, the most prevalent violent crime in America is aggravated assault.

>>>”For the offense of aggravated assault, whites accounted for 64.5 percent of the total number of arrestees for this crime category. Black arrestees accounted for 33.1 percent of the total, and 2.4 percent were in the category of other races. Further analysis of the data showed that juvenile arrestees for aggravated assault were most often white (58.5 percent); black juveniles accounted for 39.2 percent; and 2.3 percent were of other races.”

Far more violent white folks than blacks!

So you see, Cowgirl, maybe you can get away with those kinds of statements on Limbaugh’s messageboard, or Fox News Online. I deal in facts, and I will challenge you everytime.

As far as the “Muslim bandwagon” goes, think about it. Your in the midst of a blog full of commenters fired up to attack, malign, discredit and besmirch African Americans at every turn, to the point where Randall Pinkett, a married, ambitious, Rhodes Scholar graduate from M.I.T. can’t even escape the bullwhip of condemnation from this crowd.
You have commenters who declare that any criticism of America is “hatred.” You have commenters that actually BELIEVE that America is some sort of altruistic meritocracy and all you have to do is work hard.
You can keep your head in the sand all you like. I will stand up and shout for what’s right and just in this land.

–Cobra

The goal of “affirmative action” *should* have been, as you say, to increase the opportunities for minorities to grab the rungs of the ladder of success, at which point they can begin the climb themselves.

After all, one does not end discrimination by merely changing the target and enshrining the result in policy.

Some guy had a dream once; something about being judged by the content of one’s character, not the color of one’s skin. Too optimistic, I guess….

Keep up the great work! Love it!

He had gone into a convenience store to pay for his gas. The white guy behind the counter was rude and rotten. As R was leaving, he passed a black man on his way in to pay for gas.

As R drove home, he wondered if the black man, not knowing previously that the white man behind the counter had been extremely, unsolicitedly rude to R, would presume that the man was racist, if he acted in the same manner.

I have absolutely no idea what it’s like to be discriminated against simply because my skin is a different color. I will say that living in Utah and not being of the predominate religion, I have had a very small taste of prejudice.

I also think it takes greater strength to swim upstream, against the current than to float along.

Good for you La Shawn for being a woman of conviction and not a mere animal led by a ring in the nose.

Please get my comments straight – It has nothing to do with race baiting – it is factual.

Black Americans are the fast growing segment of the total population jumping on the Muslim bandwagon here in the US. Most of the recruiting is done in US Prison where Blacks make up a disportionately amount of the prison population. This is due to not race baiting, but due to the fact that 50% of the violent crime in the US is committed by black makes between the ages of 18-24 – with over 90% of the victims also being black. Blacks make up only 12% of the total population of the United States.

By the way, please don’t start on the poverty band wagon. My father spent his childhood between orphanages and the labor camps along Route 66 during the depression. He never committed a crime in his life. Poverty doesn’t causes crime, moral bankruptcy does.

Farrakan, Ali, Mumia are Black Muslims who make racists statements about America and whitey keeping them down and enslaving them. Yet they belong to a Religion that has done more damage in the past and today to the African nations and Their African ancestors than another other nation, country or group of people that exists today or ever existed. These are all facts and have nothing to do with race baiting.

Obviously you run along the same lines at Jackson, Sharpton and the rest. When someone presents facts that you don’t like call them a racists. Great. You have no credibility, just the ability to call people names.

Cowgirl.

Well hell, looking at it that way, THANK GOD FOR AA! BWUAHAHAHAA

Apparently I am the sole holder of this outlook. Oh, wait, I believe Dr. Martin L. King,Jr. said something about “content of character”? Which doesn’t exactly address the issue of insanity, which is manifested in continuing to do the same thing, always expecting this time will have a different result. The argument I make is that the insanity of the foregoing is faked, because it works to keep a support system for the few that profit from it. Had they the “character” of which Dr. King spoke, there would be none of this.

Color or lack of same should not be an issue amongst free men. I refuse to let it be a factor in my life. I will resist abuse from ANY quarter, as should we all. The way our society currently plays the color game is abuse of everybody. That really is all I want to say about that.

I will read you and hope that you are more than a one trick pony. I can see you exercise good sense and have a well developed sense or personal responsibility. I just hope your interests include other issues that are of import to free men. Free men of any color, stripe, station, or culture have much more in common and in dispute than just color.

I do admire the rationality you have brought to this topic and hope to see more on many topics.

Everybody’s a critic! It would’ve been more fruitful, polite, and less presumptuous of you to have read a few posts in the archives and under different categories before posting this comment. But everybody’s overly eager to get in his 2 cents. Having said that, I do hope you return. – Admin

The supposition is wrong.

If Blacks hated America as you so assume, Blacks wouldn’t “disproportionately” join the armed services.

If Blacks hated America, those who did join the service and/or those who have clearances, would have a higer rate of espionage than can account for the general population of those who hold clearances.

The NOI Muslims make up 0.1%, that’s 1/10th of 1% of Black Americans. Black Americans, overwhelmingly, are Christian. The next largest group of Black Muslims are no more than 1% of the Black population.

So, you just created a boogy man of about 1.1% of the Black population.

So tell me why your comments should not be considered race baiting.