RACISM

The deference between the Irish and people of color is the Irish don't have to be irish after one generation. Ease of integration...my grandfather is Native American/Irish has native facial features but light skinned. I found out my ancestry thru the Internet because he just doesnt talk about it. Not trying to take away from what's happened to the Irish in the past but their ability to integrate into normal "white society" lessened the impact on their children.
 
The deference between the Irish and people of color is the Irish don't have to be irish after one generation. Ease of integration...my grandfather is Native American/Irish has native facial features but light skinned. I found out my ancestry thru the Internet because he just doesnt talk about it. Not trying to take away from what's happened to the Irish in the past but their ability to integrate into normal "white society" lessened the impact on their children.
You are correct about "ease of integration". Soon after this country won it's independence immigration laws were established that favored Northern and Westen European countries. I don't believe this was really so much an act of "racism" as much as it was an effort to restock the growing country with people of similar cultural roots (i.e. Western Culture, Western Cicilization).
 
The deference between the Irish and people of color is the Irish don't have to be irish after one generation.
Very true, they assimilated, became successful and did not blame others for their hardships.

Lost's of Black nations on this Earth, if it is so bad in America go to one of those very successful, safe and amazing black nations. Bottom line is America is amazing,it's welfare system is very good, and that is why everyone wants to come here. No excuses, man up, go back to your failed nation or be a leach.
 
Very true, they assimilated, became successful and did not blame others for their hardships.

Lost's of Black nations on this Earth, if it is so bad in America go to one of those very successful, safe and amazing black nations. Bottom line is America is amazing,it's welfare system is very good, and that is why everyone wants to come here. No excuses, man up, go back to your failed nation or be a leach.

I assume you feel the same way about all other races? The people who complain about our current president and the way the country treats them, should they go back to their European countries? I mean bottom line is America is amazing.
 
I assume you feel the same way about all other races? The people who complain about our current president and the way the country treats them, should they go back to their European countries? I mean bottom line is America is amazing.
Europe is great also, the west is the best baby. I am talking about those who are not from the west.
 
I assume you feel the same way about all other races? The people who complain about our current president and the way the country treats them, should they go back to their European countries? I mean bottom line is America is amazing.
I wanted Hillary in 2008, but she could not have got the affordable healthcare act through congress. Unfortunately failure is baked into our healthcare. Without a single payer system there is no way to control prices. On top of that we pay the highest prices on earth for prescription drugs because medicare isn't even permitted to negotiate the prices we pay. Americans are so far removed from what is happening around them that they can't even understand how bad they are taking it up the ass. I guess a stupid fucker deserves to get fucked, but the only problem I have is that I have to go along for the ride.

There is no question that the Obama administration has been ham stringed by racism since the day he took office. It didn't work though and this man has done more for the middle class than any president in my lifetime, and I'm looking at 6 decades now.

The racist for the most part are poor and ignorant. That is how they are controlled. They are manipulated through their own ignorance to insure they have fucked up lives.
 
I was wrong. President Obama has done more for the middle class and the poor than any president in our history.
 
Yeah he's made the poor 100% government dependent and the middle class poor. No reason to bust ass and work if you can get everything you need free.
No brother the poor were already government dependent. We just have more of them now, because of tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

What people seem to forget is that in 2008-2009 the world financial system was on the verge of collapse. The only way we made it through was that you and me leaded money to banks at nearly zero interest. We are still doing that. The tax payer, you and me, propped up the financial system through our accumulated debt, which is 19 trillion and counting. In 2008 our debt was 6-7 trillion. Some where around those numbers.

To blame the Obama administration for that is just being ignorant of the facts. Tax cuts and wars are not a happy couple. You can put 6 trillion under that category in Iraq which cost the lives of several thousand brave Americans who had no problem laying down their live for the country they LOVED, and tens of thousands that will carry wounds for the rest of their lives . Only problem was Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Nothing.

So there is 6 trillion down the drain. Now lets blame the support systems in place in our country that protect those who are on the edge. Food stamps is a huge target That is nothing and I mean nothing in the greater scheme of things. You do the research for how much money this country pays to put food on the dinner table for Americans who don't have money to feed themselves, because almost all of the good news these last 8 years has been given to the top 1%.

This country can no longer ignore the consequences of an economic policy that rewards so few in these country and ignores those who make it possible, if their jobs have not all ready been exported.

By the way that man that has lips that look like an asshole, does almost all of his business outside of america at any opportunity he can.
 
No brother the poor were already government dependent. We just have more of them now, because of tax breaks to the wealthy and corporations.

What people seem to forget is that in 2008-2009 the world financial system was on the verge of collapse. The only way we made it through was that you and me leaded money to banks at nearly zero interest. We are still doing that. The tax payer, you and me, propped up the financial system through our accumulated debt, which is 19 trillion and counting. In 2008 our debt was 6-7 trillion. Some where around those numbers.

To blame the Obama administration for that is just being ignorant of the facts. Tax cuts and wars are not a happy couple. You can put 6 trillion under that category in Iraq which cost the lives of several thousand brave Americans who had no problem laying down their live for the country they LOVED, and tens of thousands that will carry wounds for the rest of their lives . Only problem was Iraq had nothing to do with 911. Nothing.

So there is 6 trillion down the drain. Now lets blame the support systems in place in our country that protect those who are on the edge. Food stamps is a huge target That is nothing and I mean nothing in the greater scheme of things. You do the research for how much money this country pays to put food on the dinner table for Americans who don't have money to feed themselves, because almost all of the good news these last 8 years has been given to the top 1%.

This country can no longer ignore the consequences of an economic policy that rewards so few in these country and ignores those who make it possible, if their jobs have not all ready been exported.

By the way that man that has lips that look like an asshole, does almost all of his business outside of america at any opportunity he can.
I live in a town where there isn't any middle class your either loaded or poor. If I just tried a little less I could get put on food stamps, live in government housing, collect unemployment, have free insurance and have more cash in my pocket at the end of the week. Tell me how that's right? I have family members on drugs but have free health care? What fuckin incentive to these people have to work?....none
 
I think Race and Racism is being pushed by the media (the rich) for two reasons as of late:
  1. To conform to the the new politically correct idealism
  2. To perpetuate a race war to shut the US down.
 
f I just tried a little less I could get put on food stamps,
Some folks don't have to try less, they just don't make the grade because of their race or socioeconomic status. This economy is "rigged" as Trump would say. It is rigged for the wealthy to get the lions share of the pie. Enjoy you crumb eater.

BTW I'm voting for Trump now. :)
 
I applied to a college program with a 4 point gpa and had to wait a year for a double minority to get her chance with a 2.5 gpa. That was my reparations, and my family did own slaves. Btw the bitch flunked out her first semester.
 
Well...At least Islam is not racist!... They don't care what color you are!
And of course we all know where the word "slave" came from!

European Slaves in The Islamic Empire.
Posted on August 20, 2013

There are key differences between the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Eastern Slave Trade (aka Arab/ Islamic Slave Trade). While the Atlantic Slave Trade focused on transporting Black Africans to the New World to provide domestic and industrial labour, the Eastern Slave Trade was not race based. Prophet Muhammad himself, during the course of inaugurating a tripartite paradigm of Islamic slavery via his military campaigns and raids against the citizens of Arabia, enslaved some of the Semitic peoples of the region. The prerequisite for being enslaved in Islam for domestic or industrial labour; sex slavery and concubinage; or chattel, is not based on race but on being a non-Muslim war captive. As the Islamic Empire expanded out of Arabia via North Africa and into Europe, war captives of all shades – brown, yellow, black and white – were relegated to slave status.

Very little is known in mainstream circles, of how White slaves fared in the Islamic Empire, in spite of the fact that they very well existed in the hundreds of thousands and more. White Eunuchs were visible throughout the Empire; in sizeable numbers in Morocco, Egypt and Turkey. At the slave markets, the purchase price for White eunuchs fared differently from Black eunuchs. White sex slaves also priced differently than Black sex slaves.

When Muslim scholars argue that Islam is not race-based, they are proven right by the doctrine of slavery in Islam – it knows not colour and recognises religion only. In the book Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Imperialism, Forced Conversion and Slavery, author M. A. Khan discusses the number and realities of Whites who fell prey to Islamic military conquests and raids, and ultimately ended up enslaved in the Islamic Empire as eunuchs, concubines and labourers. Below is an excerpt from Chapter VII of the book.

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EUROPEAN SLAVES

About slaves coming from Europe to the Muslim world, Lewis adds:

In Europe there was also an important trade in slaves, Muslim, Jewish, pagan, and even Orthodox Christian… Central and East European slaves, generally known as Saqaliba (i.e. Slavs), were imported by three main routes: overland via France and Spain, from Eastern Europe via the Crimea, and by sea across the Mediterranean. They were mostly but not exclusively Slavs. Some were captured by Muslim naval raids on European coasts, particularly the Dalmatian. Most were supplied by European, especially Venetian, slave merchants, who delivered cargoes of them to the Muslim markets in Spain and North Africa. 867

European slaves were in special demand for serving as concubines, in the royal army and palaces, and in establishments of the rich in Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya. According to Giles Milton’s White Gold and Robert Davis’ Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters, since the 1530s, North African Muslim pirates raided European coastal towns and villages from Sicily to Cornwall as well as European ships for some three centuries and enslaved over one million Europeans (including many American seamen). British humanist author Christopher Hitchens queries on this enslavement: ‘How many know that perhaps 1.5 million Europeans and Americans were enslaved in Islamic North Africa between 1530 and 1780? …what of the people of the town of Baltimore in Ireland, all carried off by ‘corsair’ raiders in a single night?’869

The Barbary Muslim pirates kidnapped Europeans from ships in North Africa’s coastal waters (Barbary Coast). They also attacked and pillaged the Atlantic coastal fishing villages and town in Europe, enslaving the inhabitants. Villages and towns on the coast of Italy, Spain, Portugal and France were the hardest hit. Muslim slave-raiders also seized people as far afield as Britain, Ireland and Iceland.

In 1544, the island of Ischia off Naples was ransacked, taking 4,000 inhabitants prisoners, while some 9,000 inhabitants of Lipari Island off the north coast of Sicily were enslaved.870 Turgut Reis, a Turkish pirate chief, ransacked the coastal settlements of Granada (Spain) in 1663 and carried away 4,000 people as slaves. In 1625, Barbary pirates captured the Lund Island in the Bristol Channel and planted the standard of Islam. From this base, they went ransacking and pillaging surrounding villages and towns, causing a stunning spectacle of mayhem, slaughter and plunder. According to Milton, ‘Day after day, they struck at unarmed fishing communities, seizing the inhabitants, and burning their homes. By the end of the dreadful summer of 1625, the mayor of Plymouth reckoned that 1,000 skiffs had been destroyed and similar number of villagers carried off into slavery.’871 Between 1609 and 1616, the Barbary pirates ‘captured a staggering 466 English trading ships.’

Murad Rais, a European convert to Islam, became a leader of the Barbary pirates at the coastal Corsair town of Salé off Morocco. In 1627, he went on a pillaging and enslaving campaign to Iceland. After dropping anchor at Reykjavik, his forces ransacked the town and returned with 400 men, women and children and sold them in Algiers. In 1631, he made a voyage with a brigand of 200 pirates to the coast of Southern Ireland and ransacked and pillaged the village of Baltimore, carrying away 237 men, women and children to Algiers.872

The barbaric slave-raiding activities of the Muslim pirates had a telling effect on Europe. France, England, and Spain lost thousands of ships, devastating to their sea-borne trade. Long stretches of the coast in Spain and Italy were almost completely abandoned by their inhabitants until the nineteenth century. The finishing industry was virtually devastated.

Paul Baepler’s White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives lists a collection of essays by nine American captives held in North Africa. According to his book, there were more than 20,000 white Christian slaves by 1620 in Algiers alone; their number swelled to more than 30,000 men and 2,000 women by the 1630s. There were a minimum of 25,000 white slaves at any time in Sultan Moulay Ismail’s palace, records Ahmed ez-Zayyani; Algiers maintained a population of 25,000 white slaves between 1550 and 1730, and their numbers could double at certain times. During the same period, Tunis and Tripoli each maintained a white slave population of about 7,500. The Barbary pirates enslaved some 5,000 Europeans annually over a period of nearly three centuries.873

The most famous European Christian to serve as a slave in Barbary Muslim Africa was Miguel de Cervantes, the famous Spanish author of the Don Quixote epic. He was taken captive in 1575 by Barbary pirates and was later released upon payment of ransom.

The Ottoman penetration into Europe in the 1350s and their capture of Constantinople later in 1453 opened new floodgates for slave-trade from the European front. In their last attempt to overrun Europe in 1683, the Ottoman army, although defeated, returned from the Gates of Vienna with 80,000 captives.874 An immense number of slaves flowed from the Crimea, the Balkans and the steppes of West Asia to Islamic markets. BD Davis laments that the ‘‘Tartars and other Black Sea peoples had sold millions of Ukrainians, Georgians, Circassians, Armenians, Bulgarians, Slavs and Turks,’’ which received little notice.875 Crimean Tatars enslaved and sold some 1,750,000 Ukrainians, Poles and Russian between 1468 and 1694.876 According to another estimate, between 1450 and 1700, the Crimean Tatars exported some 10,000 slaves, including some Circassians, annually—that is, some 2,500,000 slaves in all, to the Ottoman Empire.877 The Tatar slave-raiding Khans returned with 18,000 slaves from Poland (1463), 100,000 from Lvov (1498), 60,000 from South Russia (1515), 50,000–100,000 from Galicia (1516), 800,000 from Moscow (1521), 200,000 from South Russia (1555), 100,000 from Moscow (1571), 50,000 from Poland (1612), 60,000 from South Russia (1646), 100,000 from Poland (1648), 300,000 from Ukraine (1654), 400,000 from Valynia (1676) and thousands from Poland (1694). Besides these major catches, they made countless more Jihad raids during the same period, which yielded a few to tens of thousands of slaves.878 These figures of enslavement must be considered in the context that the population of the Tatar Khanate was only about 400,000 at the time.879:D

For the complete references to the above excerpt, please refer to M. A. Khan’s book: Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Imperialism, Forced Conversion and Slavery. A free copy is available online.
 
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