Blacks and whites are born with the very same hearts: the human hearts that God gave them. The same love, the same hate, the same sin, the same virtue.
I know that might seem like stretch to some. It does to me sometimes too. It does to my wife. One night years ago she argued about it with her mother and me.
My wife said that while black people are good by nature, apart from a few bad apples, white people were the opposite: evil by nature, apart from a few good apples.
Both me and her mother disagreed right away and for the same reason: the Bible says all men are sinful by nature: the fallen nature of man that comes from Adam, which makes sense of so much – even if it is not in the science books.
If you read the Bible and the Greeks you know that human nature is constant and universal. It is the same in all countries and all ages. Men act just the same now as they did in the time of Moses – or Machiavelli or Mobutu.
Another book that shaped my understanding of people, white or otherwise, is the one Thucydides wrote about the war between Athens and Sparta. It not only shows that men were the same then as now, but also how power made men blind and turned their hearts to stone.
So when my wife pointed to all the evil white men have done, all the red men they killed for their land and all the black men put in chains to work that land – and all the stuff they are still doing even now – I told her it had nothing to do with being white: it had everything to do with power.
Power makes white people the way they are. It is how they can believe their own lies: who will tell them they are wrong and be believed? It is why they do not know what it feels like to be black: they never had to walk in those shoes. Only a few of them, by accident, know what their power looks like at the other end.
If history had turned out a little differently, if Africa had been the first to have guns and ocean-going ships, then it would be black men killing red men. And the slave forts would not be in Cabinda, Mina and Quiloa but in London, Lisbon and Antwerp.
But then, my wife asked, why were all the serial killers and mass murderers white? This was when Jeffrey Dahmer was still fresh in our minds. Both me and her mother said it was just a matter of time before there would be black ones too.
And sure enough, one night two months later a black man named Colin Ferguson got on a train heading east out of New York and started shooting people dead one by one. He even came from the very same town as my wife.
See also:
- hearts of white people: the science, part ii.
- Race in America
- How white people think
- Bible
- Quiloa
I don’t think young whites hide their racism,I think it’s a matter of who raised them and their family structure.I was never taught anything about race at all by my parents it a very confusing subject for me.But I would say one thing Russia has the same problem ,there slaves were Russians it something I don’t think they have over come they were slaves to nobles and then to communist leaders.The people in power were always the same people.Lennin himself was German(imported middle class and a low level Russian noble).The Jews(many horrible things happened to them by Stalin) are still very poor and live on the western border in case of attack their communities would be first.They have many races in Russia and the same problems ethically.Japanese it’s Chinese that where racially inferior.If you look at Romans it was the Germans(denied citizens) who were inferior not Africans or Asians.History is strange but it is as you say it’s about power.However if History says anything else it’s that people are already multi-cultural and have always been moving around from continent to continent.Racism is competition.I think the real problem is stereotypes those who portray them (the media,political parties,etc,)they are especially harmful if people view themselves based on them.Americans need to use individual competition not racial ones they don’t make sense anyway.Besides equality and liberty is a long process it’s not about changing laws but about changing minds.
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Sorry, but young whites do hide their racism, even from themselves. Ask any black person old enough to know:
Also, whatever whites might SEEM like it is quite clear they are still racist:
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There’s other elements that may be at work as well.
GREED and RELIGION
Look at the greatest wars and crimes.
Slavery can be traced to greed.
More people have been murdered in the name of God than for any other reason.
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Greed and religion, yes. But I seriously doubt religion has killed more people than any other reason, unless you are going to seriously count all the times religion was used as a sad excuse.
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i’d just like to point out that in 1324 mansa musa king of mali was the richest man in the world, he travelled to mecca and had so much gold that he crashed the egyptian economy. he did not enslave europeans. he just carried on living a harmonious life. so there.
this info is in book:
When we ruled. by robin walker.
isbn: 0-9551068-0-x
published by every generation media.
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I am a Black woman and I have dated many white men and when it comes to marriage, they suddenly disappear. They have said directly to me that they would never marry a Black woman. That’s after having been intimate with them and met their families. I have been much more educated and financially better off than they, and much more attractive by any standard, but not worthy of having their children. It hurts, but it’s a reality I am trying to come to terms with. I’ll never give up.
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They were scumbags with no honour since they never intended to marry you from the start. They were also racist jerks since they do not want black children. More here:
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If you put a group of kids in a room, young kids…1 – 3. Before they are old enough to assimulate outside thought patterns…you will see they are all alike.
Sure – the kids with dark hair might think the blonde kids hair lost all its color when shampood and try to color it back in…and sure the kids with lighter skin will ask the darker kid if they got something on them.
But its from a pure heart and curiosity…discovery. this blog brings to mind the phrase – power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I hope your wife no longer feels this why. To be judge as having an evil heart because i was born to my parents would be sad. However, It would probably enable me to feel a bit of what a black person feels when judge because of their skin color.
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No, she still feels that way about white people, probably more so. The older she gets the more white people screw her over, so the more bitter she becomes.
Partly it is because she is seeing it in a racist way: the people who have screwed her over the most are black, but she does not see them as “black”. They are just people.
On the other hand, some of what whites have done to her has been clearly racist and not just people being their natural jerkface selves.
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My husband has been screwed over alot by people in his life as well. SO much so that he trusts basically only me. Thats the problem with living in an evil and sinful world. I wish people could look beyound the racism or sexism or greed and see the root cause. Sin.
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“Lennin himself was German(imported middle class and a low level Russian noble).The Jews(many horrible things happened to them by Stalin)”
according to some sources Lenin was mixed of jewish, mongol, german, swedish.
Many of the highest ranked men in Stalins Communist regime was a jewish origin and are responsible for the murders of millions of innocent people.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
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Even so, Stalinist Russia was hardly a nice place to be a Jew.
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Reading this post I am reminded of Shakespheres MacBeth – Lady MacBeth going mad with the knowledge that she had done says
“Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?
—Yet who would have thought the
old man to have had so much blood in him. “
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what’s wrong with hanging out with your own kind.do we have to mix.God created the many races and separated them.do blacks ever quit complaining. david
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david ringo sr Says:
what’s wrong with hanging out with your own kind.
Nothing wrong with that.
david ringo sr Says:
do we have to mix.
Nope, we don’t
david ringo sr Says:
God created the many races and separated them.
Man talk about ignorance.
david ringo sr Says:
do blacks ever quit complaining.
Ironic, a guy cpmplaining about others complaning. I pretty sure that all races complain. Get over it.
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why is that ignorant!remember the tower of babel,or are you ignorant of scripture too.
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After reading some comments about racism, I am confident to say that racism is very strong in the USA. As an educated black male,there are hurdles prepaired for the black male in all walks of life. The job is one example. However, to express my beliefs about this issue, theses people are hypocrites of religion. All people are created in the image of God we may be different shapes and sizes but we are all the same. The problem in our society is the so called christians have let the devil creep into their hearts and it has taken effect to the brain.
Hatred and other sinful act are the gifts of the Devil and who ever eats from the table thereof shall become the sons and daughters of the devil. God has made many variations on earth of different color animals, plants and rocks on earth. This was design for us to enjoy a variation of things for our pleasure. He has also place a variation of colors, shapes and sizes of both male and female on earth for our satisfaction and choice. I love a beautiful white women as well as a beautiful black, asian, brizilian and other cultural women and vice versa for women with men. This color variation was no an accident it was place there for a reason. All God’s females are beautiful to me even if they are of other race. What would happen when we pass onto the next life and the race you dispise would turn out to be the race of the God you honor and love.
Racism, drugs and other forms of sinful devices were set in place as a test. If you can pass these test than you shall be fit for the kingdom. Fools God has planted Satan to test you. For when you purchase things you test them to see if its a worthy product if it is not you disregard it and get a better product. Life is built of the way God has set things up. I too have areas that need improvement, but not in the area of hatred toward people. I love all God’s creation and thank him for all races of women and men.
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By the way, whites sold whites into slavery. Black sold blacks into slavery. Every race, cree, ethnicity has participated in slavery. It is NOT a lie. Slavery is as old as Humanity. Slavery is wrong and (as I have said before) aside from genocide, the GREATEST CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY.
I’m going to ask you a question. Do you want to help combat ignorance and racism in society today, or not?
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Liora – don’t know if you’re still around on this blog or not. Perhaps you set up a notification for when a response is added to this thread.
As for dealing with “white men”: I feel for you and hope that you have a healthy and happily fulfilled relationship. Regardless of whether the man may be “Black or White”, your health and happiness must come first. There are “men” that will always treat women as “less than” or subject them to cruelties. Theses are the less desireables, regardless of skin color. Be true to yourself. Shine in this world as brightly as you can through your good spirit. You will know your way.
Peace & Love….
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Good and Evil? God and Satan? Sin?
These concepts are worse than worthless in explaining human behavior.
Every human being on earth has legitimate material interests he/she has a responsibility (not right, another worthless concept) to look after as best they can.
Individuals universally attach themselves to collectivities in order to better see to their own interests. This collectivization, obviously, can take many forms.
Race is a reasonable principle on which to collectivise interests because it is a based on something real: genetic relatedness.
Much destruction springs from the fact that individuals in conflict equate “Us” with “Good” and “Them” with “Evil.”
Most conflicts are really better explained as a clashes of interests and could be more easily resolved as such without the inflamatory rhetoric of “good and evil.”
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Amen!
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“By the way, whites sold whites into slavery. Black sold blacks into slavery. Every race, cree, ethnicity has participated in slavery. It is NOT a lie.”
This statement is deliberately vague & misleading, as you aren’t discussing the different forms of slavery and how they where conducted.
The above sounds like the “white apologist” misinformation, yes blacks at times had slaves. However the enslavement of other blacks took the form of “indentured servitude”, which is similar to how whites treated the other whites they enslaved. An indentured servant was released after a set period of time & was able to marry & even to own land.
This was in no way comparable to “chattel slavery” which was the form slavery imposed onto blacks by whites, which meant you where owned till death as too where your off-spring. This saw blacks completely dehumanised & treated as live stock, to compare the two shows you obviously don’t know history.
“Do you want to help combat ignorance and racism in society today, or not?”
You certainly can’t combat ignorance by repeating misinformation such as crude comparisons between different forms of slavery, and you can’t solve the problem of racism by passing blame onto every race for the misdeeds of the European peoples. It’s never a defence under the law to say you can be absolved from a crime because somebody else did it also, yet this is what that argument seeks to do. Ultimately the moral choice is to accept responsibility for ill, and to dedicate to fixing the far reaching results of these past transgressions. Yet all we get is constant excuses & blame heaped onto blacks for the issues they are enduring after being held in a racist system of white supremacy for 300 years.
Nor is it the responsibility of non-white peoples to combat RACISM as it was invented by the white European & upheld as a method to condone persecution of others, and is still upheld because it brings social advantage to whites. Even whites who don’t overtly practise it, still gain un-fair social status and access; so why would they give that up? I get tired of guilt ridden black folks giving in and accepting RESPONSIBILITY for the abuse they suffer living amongst whites, especially when they start resighting apologist myths so as to gain broader acceptance. It ultimately never works, because you can & never will be white. Even Barrack Obama who has achieved the highest rank possible in white society, is still disliked by the majority of white folks.
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. However the enslavement of other blacks took the form of “indentured servitude”, which is similar to how whites treated the other whites they enslaved. An indentured servant was released after a set period of time & was able to marry & even to own land.
(response: indentured servitude and slavery are two different things. an indentured servant was someone that owed you money . american black slaves were even allowed to buy their own freedom , get married etc. )
This was in no way comparable to “chattel slavery” which was the form slavery imposed onto blacks by whites, which meant you where owned till death as too where your off-spring. This saw blacks completely dehumanised & treated as live stock, to compare the two shows you obviously don’t know history.
(response: black people in africa sold other black people to the dutch in a complex trade triangle.)
“Do you want to help combat ignorance and racism in society today, or not?”
You certainly can’t combat ignorance by repeating misinformation such as crude comparisons between different forms of slavery, and you can’t solve the problem of racism by passing blame onto every race for the misdeeds of the European peoples. It’s never a defence under the law to say you can be absolved from a crime because somebody else did it also, yet this is what that argument seeks to do. Ultimately the moral choice is to accept responsibility for ill, and to dedicate to fixing the far reaching results of these past transgressions. Yet all we get is constant excuses & blame heaped onto blacks for the issues they are enduring after being held in a racist system of white supremacy for 300 years.
(response my people in spain were slaves for 700 years this was done by black people . get over it already.)
Nor is it the responsibility of non-white peoples to combat RACISM as it was invented by the white European & upheld as a method to condone persecution of others, and is still upheld because it brings social advantage to whites. Even whites who don’t overtly practise it, still gain un-fair social status and access; so why would they give that up? I get tired of guilt ridden black folks giving in and accepting RESPONSIBILITY for the abuse they suffer living amongst whites, especially when they start resighting apologist myths so as to gain broader acceptance. It ultimately never works, because you can & never will be white. Even Barrack Obama who has achieved the highest rank possible in white society, is still disliked by the majority of white folks.
(response all races invented racism, it is not unique to anyone race and just like inventions they can be invented at the same time on different continents @ races.
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Is this Miguel commenting outside of the Zimmerman/Martin topic???
Anyway, your comments are nothing new but the usual comments whites typically make in topics like this.
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I think many of you are delusional. White people have raped, murdered, stolen, and plagiarized everything claiming they are superior. They claim America is the greatest and wealthiest nation in the world, but this only occurred from 400 years of free labor, no because of their efforts. They murdered all of the Native Americans, the Aztecs, the Mayans, and killed hundreds of millions of Africans to establish America.
They claim to be genetically superior, but Gregor Mendel and Biology establishes they are the most genetically recessive. They have the most genetic defects and they are killed by sunlight, developing skin cancer. Biologically they are Albinos, and science says Albino’s have weaker eyesight, slower reflexes, and weaker physiology.
White people have attempted to destroy the Japanese with Nagasaki, India, and China, but now the population of Caucasians is failing. They love homosexuality and their reproductive numbers are severely failing. Except for test tube baby’s, fertility drugs, and many governments paying white women to have children they would be less than 5% of the population.
While the Bible specifies in Amos 7:5-8
“And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years. And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God: and after that shall they come forth, and serve me in this place.”
And 2nd Kings 11, Numbers 12, and Leviticus 13-15 speak of white skin as being a curse. White people have shown their nature time and time again. Eventually when we are in world war III and many of you are literally trying to survive, keep in mind who loves to start wars and take other nation’s land.
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“If history had turned out a little differently, if Africa had been the first to have guns and ocean-going ships, then it would be black men killing red men. And the slave forts would not be in Cabinda, Mina and Quiloa but in London, Lisbon and Antwerp.”
You can’t know that for sure. Not all ancient cultures had slavery. South Asian Hindu cultures did not. Slavery was unknown to them until Muslims brought slaves with them when they invaded.
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@ Why
I agree with that. I wrote a post about it:
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Since obviously there is a serious lack of objectivity here, consider that you have not done enough research. As impossible and unbelievable as this sounds, eighty thousand years ago Khamit or Egypt was more advanced than we are now. The Samarian texts, Egyptian texts, and ancient Indian texts all speak of a one world society where technology was more advanced than we are now. Aerial flight, medicine, and human divinity, which correlates to the bible. Unfortunately because you base your entire paradigm of life upon what you see before you and western scholars, you are left with a very unbalanced perspective.
I just gave you quotes out of the bible! And you are dismissing it. Consider that you are arguing against the word of GOD, yet you expect to have some logical debate about why you are right. The fact that you don’t find this blasphemous and that you don’t have the capacity to question your reality versus attempting to justify your opinion says it all. Have you ever read the whole bible? How a 5000 year old story called The Mahabharata or The Ramayana? How about The Enuma Elish or The Epic of Gilgamesh? Western authorities claim these are mythological, but they are the only cultures that debase other cultures history, because to accept them as fact would displace the modern world and rewrite HIS-STORY.
While it is not my desire to make this personal, consider that no other nation of people experienced THE DARK AGES, but Caucasians. If you haven’t read about the wide-spread diseases of Bubonic Plague, Typhoid, or Cholera, check it out. These people were not bathing for years at a time. Egypt is more like 85,000 years old. They had flight, wireless power, and schools to teach their people to become immortal. Its all in the bible, but since you have never read the entire bible you don’t know about Genesis or The Genealogy of Isis. The bible is an Egyptian book, it is not Christian. Christianity is a fake religion, used to enslave Nubian people after Rome decided to make the Christ and Creator over in their image.
Caucasians have attempted to usurp every culture. If they could not kill them, they would use diseases, as with the Native Americans. Today Latinos celebrate the Conquistadors, when these were the people raping and killing their ancestors the Aztecs and Maya. This is the kind of insanity which is prevalent in our world. And all of libraries of Egypt, Carthage, Arabia, The Mayan Codex, and many others were burned to remove the truth. Why would all of these cultures be attacked by the Caucasian and all of their historical databases burned? Before you get aggressive, take the time to educate yourselves first. Not to sound arrogant, but you don’t know enough to have a debate with me.
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The bottom line is: Whites will ALWAYS hate black people and the sooner that we all come to grips with this the better off we’ll be. The remedy to this problem is to organize to oppose the white race violently – but black people lack the spine for that; so let us enjoy our 3rd class (soon to be fourth class) status without all this palavering.
Stick your thumbs back up your asses and shut up.
RIP Travon
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Actually the Chinese had ocean going ships (the compass) and ‘proto-guns’ first (gun power, rockets, canons), they visited some places (brought back a giraffe from Africa) before deciding the outside world didn’t interest them. China was the most powerful civilization for most of human history, yet has essentially no history of genocide (which isn’t to say they are saints, but power didn’t make them devils).
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@Jack
“China was the most powerful civilization for most of human history”
LOL. Hardly. Ancient Egypt/KMT was far more powerful over a MUCH longer period of time–over 3,000 years. I mean the great pyramid was built centuries before there was any glimmer of a Chinese empire, and everyone, including the Chinese, copies ancient Egyptian culture.
And whether or not the ancient Chinese committed acts of genocide is highly debatable. For example, some scholars will say that the Zunghars were killed off by the Qing dynasty.
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Indeed, I am not sure what kind of fairy tale version of history Jack has been taught, but as resw77 noted
– China was certainly NOT the most powerful civilization for most of human history
and
– China is just as guilty of genocide as any other empire.
Hundreds of different tribal groups (and later states) surrounded the area of what was (or still is) termed Chinese Civilization. Where are those groups today? Survivors have been assimilated. The key word is survivors.
In addition to the act mentioned by resw77, there was the mass killings of Confucianists in the Qin dynasty and one can certainly argue that the modern mass killings during the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Tibetan Uprising were also forms of genocide – indeed, one may also argue that a genocide is still going on in Tibet.
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The bible is specific about the Caucasian. They are the only race of people with blonde or yellow hair. This same white people are the only people on the planet with naturally yellow hair.
Leveiticus 13:30
“If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard; 30Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard. 31And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days: 32And in the seventh day the priest shall look on the plague: and, behold, if the scall spread not, and there be in it no yellow hair, and the scall be not in sight deeper than the skin; 33He shall be shaven, but the scall shall he not shave; and the priest shall shut up him that hath the scall seven days more:”
White people are the only people with white skin. White people came out the Caucus Mountains. They are the product of people of Cain in the bible. The biblical Leprosy spread upon them then they cast out of the holy land about 60,000years ago because white skin is a curse. They moved past India up into the Caucus Mts. Stayed there for about another 5000 years where they lost all their color and then emerged and began to invading every culture they came across.
Numbers 12:
The Murmuring of Miriam and Aaron
1And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman. 2And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it. 3(Now the man Moses was very meek, above all the men which were upon the face of the earth.) 4And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the congregation. And they three came out. 5And the LORD came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.6And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.7My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house. 8With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses? 9And the anger of the LORD was kindled against them; and he departed. 10And the cloud departed from off the tabernacle; and, behold, Miriam became leprous, white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous. 11And Aaron said unto Moses, Alas, my lord, I beseech thee, lay not the sin upon us, wherein we have done foolishly, and wherein we have sinned. 12Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb. 13And Moses cried unto the LORD, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee. 14And the LORD said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut out from the camp seven days, and after that let her be received in again. 15And Miriam was shut out from the camp seven days: and the people journeyed not till Miriam was brought in again.
The Bible states we are not supposed to marry, have sex with or worship the Gods of the Caucasian.
Genesis 1512-16
12And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; 14And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. 15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. 16But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.
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Blacks have traveled the world from west Africa way before Christopher Columbus. And what about the Moors who conquered Spain. They ruled peacefully and even allowed freedom of religion, invented the Castle, and established the first University. There were many kingdoms in Africa way before any civilization. So tell me why hasn’t the world suffered when Africans had power? Don’t forget Ancient Egypt who we credit the written word to and religion.
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George Ryder
unless you lived 60000 years ago then I doubt you were even apart of what happened back then. Look I get your point, but you are taking a lot of things personal as if they are referring to you. They are not. From one thread to the next you are being offended by peoples basic opinions. Opinions are like azzholes everyone has one. Facts are a different story and that seems to be one thing people confuse with opinions.
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George Ryder
That is great but these post are not talking about all white people. They say most or many and the blacks you know may not see you as part of that majority standing. So you are basically getting angry over what is said about other whites.
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Abagond,
Your article is good to read. You obviously do have a good heart, like most blacks that I have met across different continents. It strikes me that because of your good heart, you refrain from holding the whites responsible for their own behavior and you lay the blame on “POWER” instead.
Pls take a moment to think : They did not became evil after they obtained power. They used their evil to take power. They used evil hearts, devious thinking and brutal violence to grab power.
Power did not corrupt them. They were corrupt hitherto. The whites that came to Africa had no power, they arrived exactly as armed robbers do: with weapons and an intention to kill & steal.
Some of the serial killers we know, were outcasts who were taunted and rejected as youth, and had never had any form of influence or power, not even as hall monitor. You are wrong in assuming that all whites have power and therefore, evil white people are only evil b/c of power.
I personally have lived in countries on 3 different continents. There is a stark difference btw the behavior of whites and other races. And all the EVIL ones I met HAD NO POWER/
Consider this: I tool in a black person’s hand could mean one thing and in another person’s twisted, evil mind would be another. Guns and gunpowder in an African’s hands would have been a tool to keep wild animals in their reserves.. and away from inhabited areas. In the white person’s hand, it was tool with which to travel to another man’s continent, kill him and take his stuff, while calling him all the horrible hateful names he could possibly mouth.
If blacks were running around killing whites as revenge, at least we could justify it as revenge for all the rapes, murders and horrific treatment they or their family have endured all these years. But you never ever see this.. which to me, is an astounding willingness to forgive!
Do u really think they have the same heart? If white serial killers kill for no reason, do you think they’d hesitate when they have a reason(such as the blacks have right now)??
You have a good heart. May God shield you from the evil around, but reveal to you the truth. God’s Blessings to you, your wife and your mother (in law), in Jesus Name.
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Hold on I take that back: You never said you were black. Sorry to have made an erroneous assumption. You’re probably white. Nothing wrong with that, if u have stated so elsewhere.
But The comment you made about your wife to a complete stranger shocks me!! Is this really your wife u talked about, or did u make up the story. How could u speak that way of “your wife” to a complete stranger?? This really makes me wonder about you. Really.
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@Bey
Abagond is black. What you stated really got me thinking. Is it really about power. In most cases I can think of power is not something that those whites have yet they still exercise ill intent. Very interesting.
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But Sharina, I am not sure I can agree with this from the other commenter:
It is just the methods that are different.
ie,
If someone has no power, they use their own physical power, eg, violence or crime, to get what they want. They are more blatantly and obviously evil.
If someone has more power, they can turn a blind eye to the first group.
If they have even more power, they can use legislation, public policy, or corporate predatory methods to exercise their evil.
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jefe
I guess my question becomes….With the Average person what constitutes their power? So far I see their power as more power given to them by those able to Control the system. Not so much as power they have on their own mwrit.
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Correcrion Merit
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@Sharina,
Everyone has at least some modicum of power under their control. An average white person can even exercise “white privilege” when the opportunity arises.
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They have said directly to me that they would never marry a Black woman. That’s after having been intimate with them and met their families.
Meeting family is a significant thing, it communicates that you at least don’t rule out marrying the person, whose family you’ve met.
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Once you comprehend the invention of “Racial Whiteness,” you also understand the impossibility of White monolithic thought, culture, motivation, or action. You are no longer dealing with one definable people on a single path, and from a single culture. Instead you see a hodgepodge of peoples, cobbled together under the newlyy-erected banner of “Whiteness.” They are not ‘one’ in doing good, nor in doing evil, because they are not one all.
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Evil is present in the hearts of all men no matter the ethnicity. “Men act the same now as they did in the time of Moses or Machiavelli or Mobutu.” This is true.
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@ King: In regards to your comment, is this like the “Blacks are not a monolith” meme? Except this time insert Whites are not a monolith? To be fair in my opinion generalizations are wrong. Not trying to put words in your mouth, just trying to understand your statement.
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@ Mary
Men act the same now …
Yes. There seems to be something of an ‘original sin’ story in Buddhism that can be seen as quite similar to the Christian story, provided the serpent tempting man into a flawed and sin tainted existence is seen metaphorically.
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This is another prime example of how White people use the Bible to hide their human nature. Also, remember the old saying “if ‘if’ were a fifth we’d all be drunk”. The idea that they were the first with guns and ships does not give a legitimate excuse to use that particular power for evil.
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You are right about the root cause of racism. The one’s who have been under its tyrrany are going to understand the reality of racism. Most people are self and don’t take the time to at least try to look at the world through another person’s eyes. However as a Christian I am called to bear my brother’s burden and not turn a blind eye to it.
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I know this post was written years ago, but scientists have suggested that white males suffer from “aggravated entitlement”. It’s like how a bully feels entitled to toy and takes it. It’s out of jealousy and fear of power loss. Like Adam lanza, who emulated a racist serial killer. The world is like star trek to a white person, we are all humanoid shaped, but white people are the only humans. Did you know that the kkk thought clan was spelled with a “k”?
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I agree with you emphatically. I just had this argument with my husband the other day, at the end of which he understood my point, that White Male Supremacy in particular is why of all the school shooters since the 60s, only 4 have been Black, and only two of those Black males. The superiority and power and privilege (most) white men are raised with from birth lends to the psychopathy that creates these narcissistic shooters. It’s the same reason most serial killers are white males who have mommy issues related to a single mother emasculating them (at least in their view, though I’m sure at times it literally occurred); that psychopathy is born almost exclusively of power, privilege and narcissistic superiority. It also lends to the motorcycle gangs shooting up a restaurant and the parking lot of a busy suburban shopping mall on a Sunday at noon, (an area chock-full of families and their children running errands for the week), with no consideration for those that could’ve been caught in the crossfire.
For the record, I am “white”.
As for Marker, dude, just stop. Clearly you’re forgetting the genocide of nearly 20 million people at the hands of Hitler (whom it’s also been postured was part Jewish; like Stalin, however, there is literally zero historical evidence to support this assertion), Stalin’s adversary. Yes, I said 20 million. The numbers have almost doubled in recent years, as Holocaust historians continue to comb through the records (and the Nazis kept impeccable records, though of course many were destroyed upon advancement of the Allied Troops) with totals of Jews killed now numbering between 10-15 million, and non-Jews between 5-10 million). To assert the victims of that genocide are culpable is akin to blaming West Africans for the TAST; while certainly some West Africans were complicit, they were not the perpetrators. Further, lots of people do things they’d never dream of considering in order to survive. It’s a version of Stockholm Syndrome, and it’s far more complex than your ludicrous allegations.
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@Al
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