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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 191336" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Slavery has been around for...probably as long as humans have been around. Slaves were well known spoils of warfare in the "ancient times" of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Empires. Africa had a huge slave trade of blacks enslaving blacks (which is why when whites showed up offshore wanting slaves, in most places the response was "sure, have some of our slaves"). Slavery and racism are not synonymous, but have certainly become closely related in our culture.</p><p></p><p>It is frustrating because such pendulums seldom find the middle and balance, they usually swing too far one way and then too far the other way. I have no idea if this guy deserved to be run out of town on a rail (you can certainly make the argument his position is political and he allowed too much conflict to arise), but I also feel at times it is impossible these days to speak "truth to power" when the power is the media/race junta. </p><p></p><p>Perhaps this is a just result, I don't know and don't care to check into it myself enough to judge. But there have been plenty recently that have gone too far the other way (Virginia rape case, Duke lacrosse team, riots after fact findings of innocence in Ferguson police officer case, Baltimore riots, etc). The trendy dialogue that cops are killing blacks is bunk in all but a precious few cases, and in those cases I think all people unite on wanting to find the truth and justice. I fear that overall racial relations and mutual respect have declined in the past few years. I wonder why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 191336, member: 944"] Slavery has been around for...probably as long as humans have been around. Slaves were well known spoils of warfare in the "ancient times" of Egyptian, Greek, and Roman Empires. Africa had a huge slave trade of blacks enslaving blacks (which is why when whites showed up offshore wanting slaves, in most places the response was "sure, have some of our slaves"). Slavery and racism are not synonymous, but have certainly become closely related in our culture. It is frustrating because such pendulums seldom find the middle and balance, they usually swing too far one way and then too far the other way. I have no idea if this guy deserved to be run out of town on a rail (you can certainly make the argument his position is political and he allowed too much conflict to arise), but I also feel at times it is impossible these days to speak "truth to power" when the power is the media/race junta. Perhaps this is a just result, I don't know and don't care to check into it myself enough to judge. But there have been plenty recently that have gone too far the other way (Virginia rape case, Duke lacrosse team, riots after fact findings of innocence in Ferguson police officer case, Baltimore riots, etc). The trendy dialogue that cops are killing blacks is bunk in all but a precious few cases, and in those cases I think all people unite on wanting to find the truth and justice. I fear that overall racial relations and mutual respect have declined in the past few years. I wonder why. [/QUOTE]
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