Slavery...

Ok, this is post number 2 for today out of a possible 3... i have a lot on my mind today.

So today I was talking with my mum about slavery. We were watching The King of Queens on Comedy Central & it was the episode where Arthur attempts to apologise to Deacon for his ancestors owning black slaves. I then thought about how black people are naturally still quite angry about the matter. I then asked my mum "If it were white people who were enslaved, would you still be angry about it now?"...I mean, it wasn't us who did the enslaving & it wasn't the black people of today who were enslaved, so I wasn't sure why they are so angry about slavery. But then again, if you look at it from their perspective, it was THEIR distant families who were enslaved, so you can understand the resentment they may have. I was thinking to myself "I would probably be pzzd off if my family were enslaved...".

I then said this to her & she said that white people were enslaved. However, the white people who were poor & owned by rich, white, snobby bastards were not called slaves. They were slaves as in they were bought & owned, but these people were called "indentured people"... This usually meant that they were slaves but only for a certain amount of time, & if they wished to do so they could save up what little money they earned over the years to eventually buy themselves from their masters. They were purchasing their freedom.

Learning of this, I began to feel quite angry for a number of reasons. My family is far from rich, but we do okay. We have no history of being rich so I can only assume that my ancestors were indentured. Bought & owned. So there weren't just black people who were enslaved, no, white people were too. But there's never any mention of that in history class. You don't get white people rebelling because of our ancestors being slaves. I mean, what do you think the rich bastards did before they discovered Africa & black people??? Do things for themselves??? HELL NO. They had poor white people do their manual labour. At the SAME TIME as black people. So it wasn't just black people who were enslaved, we were too. The real rebellion should'nt be against any white person, it should be against the RICH white people of rich heritage from those times. The Royal Family for example. They lived off the backs of poor people for years. 5 year old children who died in mines owned by these royal scumbags, people with families who were paid in peanuts for doing 16 hour days & getting one Sunday a month as a day off work.

So black people & white people are in the same boat. We were all slaves at some point unless you were rich. It wasn't just black people who were forced to work against their will. But try telling that to a black person. They'll call you ignorant & probably not listen to you & still complain about slavery. If you try to bring this topic up in a discussion you wont get any response except an aggressive one. So what I'm asking is that people stop the ignorance, stop the racism. And no, I don't just mean black people, I mean white people too. The world would be a much better place if nobody were racist.

Let the past stay in the past.

*I would also like to say that I am not racist in any way, shape or form. I am accepting of any person as long as they are a nice person. They can be chinese, black, purple or even have two heads for all I care. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Treat others how you would like to be treated...