It's just a Southern thang y'all!

[kılıç_mehmet]

We'll also BrokenQuill92' shall we? If she thinks the only difference between then and now is that she has to feed herself and that she's now in a worse condition than actual slavery. I mean she has first hand knowledge so I think her view would be relevant.

Ask her whether she believes that the fate of her people is in their own hands or not. Or whether they are still tied to the whims and fancies of the white masters.

Do you know of a country called Liberia?
The Amero-Liberians were the testimony to the perpetual mental enslavement. They were so disattached from their roots, and so hopelessly connected to the mindset and culture of their masters, they just could not connect with the native African tribes in Liberia. So they emulated their masters by enslaving the natives.

People usually tend to think that skin colour is a sufficient basis for an identity. But it isn't. Skin colour might serve as a means of distinction for both yourself and others, but if you are ignorant of that heritage, your roots, it usually serves as nothing more than a handicap in the case of the blacks of America.
Without knowing their roots, they can only say that are not white, but still, they must conform to the culture of the whites, must speak the language of the whites, and must follow the rules of the whites.
They conform to the ways of the whites, but they can never be whites. On the other hand, being "black" only grants them the past of slavery, so in order to be successful, in order to be someone, they emulate the whites as best as they can.

[BrokenQuill92]

Are you on drugs? My family is Creole/Cuban I emulate no one. I was raised in a Jewish/Italian neighborhood. My grandmother was baptist and so is my mother. Though I'm technically multi-racial I check the box that says black. I am myself. Alaina Kathryn Johnson. Do NOT presume to tell me who I am. Or how I live.

[kılıç_mehmet]

Are you on drugs? My family is Creole/Cuban I emulate no one. I was raised in a Jewish/Italian neighborhood. My grandmother was baptist and so is my mother. Though I'm technically multi-racial I check the box that says black. I am myself. Alaina Kathryn Johnson. Do NOT presume to tell me who I am. Or how I live.

Why tell me? They proposed that I ask you. I don't even know who you are. But as it seems, neither do they.

[pocaracas]

I'm from one of the countries originally responsible for most of the international slave trade originating in Africa, so I can budge in a bit!

As for the flag, I couldn't care less what it means. If some people find it offensive, then the problem lies with those people.
Much like the words... negro or black...
Apparently, black is the politically correct word to use when referring to dark skinned people, while negro is a pejorative term.
Around here, we also have the "negro" word and black translates to "preto". Maybe negro has the same etymology for both our languages, but the evolution became disparate.
"Negro" is the politically correct way of referring to these peoples, while "preto" is very offensive.

My mum always used the word "preto". She kept banging my head with the notion that I should never bring a preta (black girl) home... Maybe because of that, I have never found black women particularly pretty... I admit some have fine bodies, but the face is always a disappointment... unless there's some mixed ethnicity in there, like with Tara Banks... or some brazilian women!

[Jacob(smooth)]

Are you on drugs? My family is Creole/Cuban I emulate no one. I was raised in a Jewish/Italian neighborhood. My grandmother was baptist and so is my mother. Though I'm technically multi-racial I check the box that says black. I am myself. Alaina Kathryn Johnson. Do NOT presume to tell me who I am. Or how I live.

And as a "black" person living in the USA would you agree that you are in a worse state now than "actual" slavery? Or that the only difference between then and now is that you have to feed yourself?

[ElleBelle]

Stop feeding the troll.

The more you poke the ignorant, the more they ooze.

[Rahul]

Yeah. They think that slavery was better for both white people and black people. Because that's what they teach Southern kids.

While I'm sure there are a few sick individuals that think that, living in the dregs of trailer home communities in the South, I don't personally know of anyone that teaches slavery is better for anyone. Or has been taught such.

[A Theist]

Lots of hate groups are located there, neo-nazis and KKK.

Don't forget the republicunt party.

...and don't forget the democraps. The party of naive far-left intolerant bigots who hate everything that disagrees with their leftist ideological indoctrination.

[Minimalist]

Hey, look...our resident neo-nazi nutcase is back. Are you out on work-release or something?

[A Theist]

Hey, look...our resident neo-nazi nutcase is back. Are you out on work-release or something?

Good to see my commie buddy missed me.