Quote:BLM isn't real big on reality. Too many blacks refuse to accept the reality of the history of slavery. They blame white people for it. The reality is that slavery started way before America even existed. Back then, it was common for rival tribal communities to invade neighboring communities and take rivals captive. They would sell the captives off as slaves. It is still happening to this day in places in Africa. Eventually, it trickled over to other countries like America. That is reality.


What is more important, as far as America is concerned, slavery as they describe it is long gone. Most blacks have moved on and made lives for themselves. The ones hanging on to slavery are stuck in the past, which is why they have no futures. Yes this is blunt, but it is not hatred and not racism. It is the simple reality that too many refuse to accept.

 

The other thing that people don't realize and it's never taught, slaves were generally treated well by their owners.  I've used the analogy before and I don't mean it in a disrespectful or insulting way, but slaves were more-or-less considered livestock.  A rancher doesn't abuse his cattle and slave owners, for the most part, didn't abuse their slaves.  They actually wanted to keep them healthy, encouraged families and wanted them to reproduce.

 

I'm not saying that the practice was right or justified, but people must understand that it was a very different time in history.  The practice was overcome by giving black people the freedom that they deserve, and it took many years before they were given equal rights as citizens.

 

The problem today is that there are far too many people that "live in the past" when it comes to race relations.  That goes for whites, blacks, Hispanics, etc.  This is 2017 and we all have the same unalienable Rights that are endowed to us by our Creator, those being life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.  "What we are" shouldn't identify us, rather it should be "who we are".  The day that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke about is here.  People need to learn to embrace it.

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