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Not as bad as me.
I told them Mr. Brady was the good guy.
I didn't have to watch the rest.
LOL.
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We had to watch it, too. We weren't told that it was based on a novel.
shareBasically any white character on TV in the 70s and 80s is pretty much the bad person. We were just a much more racist country back then
shareSo your teacher thought this was like real history? LOL How embarrassing and unfortunate. Guaranteed your teacher was a liberal boomer who sold out this country so they can have it easier than every generation before and after. All to make you sure you would accept the bullying, drugs, violence, and rapes that culturally enrich our schools these days thanks to desegregation.
shareSo how is it not history?
shareThe white man did not traverse the bush of African to capture and enslave black people. LOL imagine that one. But I guess if you can get someone to believe that absurdity, it easy to get to them accept colonial slave masters that are so brutal, when slavery was abolished, all the slaves literally stayed on the same plantations they were worked to be sharecroppers. Yikes. Even thinking Roots is history is astounding.
shareWell, there were brutal slave masters.
And plenty of former slaves left the plantations too.
plenty? Is that a scientific number? So there's Django and his wife. The guy who was 12 weeks a Slave? Is that "plenty"?
shareTo be fair, it is harder than I thought to find a scientific number of how many ex-slaves escaped the plantations.
It is true that many of them had to become share-croppers or face starvation, unemployment and imprisonment.
However, that is not what happened everywhere or to everybody.
https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/after_slavery/unit_two_as
In some areas, however, freedpeople were in a better position to assert their new citizenship rights. Along the South Carolina coast below Charleston, for example, former slaves took possession of the abandoned plantations divided and distributed out under General Sherman’s Special Order no. 15, and looked to a future as independent farmers. Above Charleston, in Georgetown and further north into coastal North Carolina, freedpeople never benefited from the land redistribution enacted on the sea islands to the south, but they did take advantage of their proximity to early Union army occupation to establish free communities. Their strength in numbers in port cities like Charleston and Wilmington offered some protection against white violence and gave them leverage in dealing with white landowners and employers.share
That didn't "HAVE" to become sharecroppers on the same plantations as mean ol massa! They were all experienced farmers and the West was rife with opportunity. So again, everything this mini-series depicts is a farce that doesnt hold up to any logic or criticism. All just to brainwash white people into accepting the bullying, drugs, raping, and violence in desegregated schools from the poor, oppressed, underprivileged minorities. It's not their fault. It's slavery. They'll turn it around with enough opportunity, huh? It's only been 70+ years. Just like they claim to be the first civilizations and had a head start on that too. Look at the progress. Amazing!
Darn that slavery! It's not like no other race of people has been slaves. Oh wait!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_slave_trade
Oh wow, the same people who enslaved blacks, also enslaved whites. Those silly muslims!
Damn, poverty! It must have been that! It's not like no other race has come to America with absolutely no money or property or anything and did anything.
Or maybe it was lack of language. Cause everyone who came to the U.S. spoke perfect English
ONE OF YOUR WORST POSTS YET...AND THATS REALLY SAYING SOMETHING.🤔
shareSorry, I'll try to throw in some genital mutation and pedophilia for you next time. Gotta know your audience.
share[–] Kowalski (18658) 7 hours ago
ONE OF YOUR WORST POSTS YET...AND THATS REALLY SAYING SOMETHING.🤔
Interesting you post this without disputing anything in the post you are replying to. Do you dispute these assertions?
The white man did not traverse the bush of African to capture and enslave black people. LOL imagine that one. But I guess if you can get someone to believe that absurdity, it easy to get to them accept colonial slave masters that are so brutal, when slavery was abolished, all the slaves literally stayed on the same plantations they were worked to be sharecroppers. Yikes. Even thinking Roots is history is astounding.share