From: jeb3@meaddata.com (Jennifer Bing)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.african.american,alt.discrimination
Subject: Re: I'm Still Waiting
Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:57:24 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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In article <1992Dec10.003617.1100@microsoft.com>, johnhall@microsoft.com (John Hall) writes:
|> In article ohall@milori.ccit.arizona.edu writes:
|> | Whites were not the only race to practice slavery, but they are the first race
|> | to my understanding to practice the type of brutal slavery performed in the
|> | U.S.  
|> 
|> Exactly how?  Without defending the brutality of American Slavery, how
|> do you justify this versus other slave societies?

Slave owners in the USA demoralized the slaves. They weren't considered human.
I forget the percentage...but something like a black man = 1/5 th of a man. They constanly broke down any family structure that was developed by selling the family to different slave owners. Originally blacks from the same tribe were 
separated so that they couldn't communicate and rise up against their slave 
owners. They continued to do this after they arrived here, because the slaves 
out numbered the whites in southern states. Slaves didn't have any rights. They
couldn't marry or decide who they wanted to be with. A white man could come and sleep with any slave woman he wanted. It didn't matter that a black man considered her to be his wife. It was the slave owners perogative to do what he wanted.
Our heritage was taken from us. They made us forget and forbade us to practice 
any of the customs from our homeland. They didn't allow us to learn anything, 
including how to speak english. What we learned we learned from observation.
|> 
|> Castration occured, but doesn't seem to be as common as the
|> Enuch practices of asia.

That's because we were their cheap labor. That had to allow us to reproduce.

Forget it. If you don't see the difference, it's because you don't want to. And my explaining it to you won't make a difference. It's hard to look in the 
mirror.

|> America was hardly known for human
|> sacrifice or canibalism, both of which occured in various other
|> slave societies.
|> 
|> There are other ways to measure the living standard of a slave
|> society, including chance for freedom and slave social life.
|> In both of these the American slaves fared worse than their
|> cousins in South America and the Gulf of Mexico.  However, you
|> specifically mentioned brutality.

Physical brutality will do 2 things: 1) kill you - your suffering is over
2) hurt you - you will heal outwardly

Mental brutality doesn't kill your body but your spirit. Means in which to heal the pain and bruises aren't readily known, if at all. It doesn't heal quickly
or at all.

|> 
|> Source: Slavery, History and Historians by ?? Paresh
|> 
|> 
|> -- 
|> -------------------------
|> My comments are my own.  They are independent and unrelated to the
|> views of my company , relatives or elected representatives.
|> 

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