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Originally Posted by d?i???????

Well... to be fair. Whites did enslave blacks only 200 years ago, I think they deserve to murder a few whites every year and not catch a bunch of flack for it.

You obviously didn't read this:

JMK said...
Those who think slavery somehow handicapped blacks are woefully ignorant of history.

The Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians for over one thousand years and once free, they became merchants, developed trades and businesses and began quickly to have a huge influence on the ancient Middle East.

The American slave trade actually saved a select few Africans from the fate of their relatives who lived and still live in Africa.

When the Europeans colonized the known world in the 16th through the 19th centuries, they trained the native populations wherever they went to carry on the routine, menial and day-to-day jobs. The indigenous people in places like India, most of Asia and even the Arab world sought to become ?as English? as they could possibly be, but the Europeans, found the people of sub-Saharan Africa to be ?ineducable? and untrainable even for the most menial duties, so much so, that Lord Cecil Rhodes (whom the Rhodes Scholarship and Rhodesia were named for) floated a plan in which England would simply de-populate sub-Saharan Africa of its indigenous people and replace them with Irish prisoners who ?had strong backs and could take direction.?

There?s little doubt, that had sub-Saharan Africa been left alone by the Europeans at that point, the people of that region would?ve remained, to this day, in a perpetual primitive state ? subsisting within a hunting-and-gathering type society.

In a sense, Africans were dragged kicking and screaming and yes, unfairly, into the modern world by the iron fist of Europe.

In post-slavery America, the black family remained in tact for generations (the two-parent household was the norm in black families through the 1950s) and the vast majority of blacks found work, some did quite well (blacks were admitted into places like Harvard and Yale since the early 1800s) and some merely scraped by.

The ONLY place on the face of the earth where chattel slavery has been eradicated has been in the West (Western Europe & America). It STILL exists TO THIS DAY throughout the Arab world, in sub-Saharan Africa, in Asia, only Western (that?s ?white,? to you) culture has come to see that ?there are no chosen people,? and accept the ?universal humanity? of mankind. No other group of homo-sapiens has yet come to that point of development.

The FACT is that poverty is caused SOLELY by a lack of marketable skills ? that, in fact, IS the definition of poverty.

Violence is completely and utterly unrelated to poverty.

The propensity for violence strongly correlates to IQ. Higher IQ populations tend to be les violent, while lower IQ populations tend to be more violent.
February 24, 2007 8:29 AM