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Garbage!!!!!
My dear friend of so many black friends and relatives, if this were truly the case, then you would know and realize without a doubt that slavery is partially if not directly to blame for the broken social system, poor education (blacks were not allowed to attend schools, and had to learn to read in secret) Violence ( Blacks were burned, beaten, raped, whipped beyond recognition) Inner city poverty (Jim Crow laws, seperate rest rooms, seperate water faucets, seperate communities-they basically lived in shacks) The selling and then seperation of families (thus partially a result ot the black families now)
Now you want to talk about a broken social system, certainly slavery accounts for some of this, and if your black friends and family would be honest with you or even themselves, YOU would see the REAL ISSUES
as they are.
Summer, you should really educate yourself if you think you can compare woman's rights ( and I am a woman) with that of Slavery, how can you open your mouth and say that woman didn't get rights until after blacks were granted rights, if you'll pick up a history book you will see that often times during slavery (now there were exceptions) the wives of slaveowners were sometimes more brutal than the men, clearly you cannot compare the two, as detrimental as the lack of rights for woman may have been.
As far as the Jews are concerned (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem Psalm 122:6) they received reparations, which I don' consider a handout, but what was rightfully there's, as an African American, I am not looking for a handout, and I also don't use slavery as an excuse to get money and not work, I am employed and have been since the age of 15, I would just like to see the equality that the goverment , and people such as yourself are so sure exists.
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