Quote:It's not semantics at all.

It doesn't have much to do with slavery -- is slavery one of the causes?  Sure.  But it's not a direct cause.  The direct cause is the treatment of blacks in the years before the civil rights movement.  You know, the period of time in which many people today were alive for, or who have parents who were alive for and experienced the discrimination for themselves?


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Most of that dislike doesn't come from slavery.  It comes from the treatment after the years of slavery.  And even the treatment today.  What does Africans enslaving Europeans have to do with the treatment of black people in the 1950's?

Blacks were brought to this country as slaves. That's where and how the mistreatment started and why some whites still have that superiority complex, and why blacks still harbor that hatred. Everything stemmed from that.

 

I posted about the 17th-18th centuries, not 1950's. I brought that up to show that many Africans who owned those slaves ended up having descendants who themselves were slaves (who were sold into slavery by their own people no less). There's a hatred to slavery though only towards whites, and not anyone else.

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