shakerz_1:

your insecure every person who plays the race card should jump off a cliff, damn u got a black prez STFU already

shakerz_1:

Get over it, love. S*** happens, you can either be stuck in the past or get on with your life, and I for one couldn't care less for those who play the victim and/or race card

Navi613:

^^shakerz_1
You are so oblivious to race and everything around you aren't you? It's not right to blame the entire world's problems on one race, but it is just as silly [hell, it is soooo much more bleeping silly] to say that one should just get OVER thousands of years' worth of injustices. mess the race, EVERY SINGLE PERSON OF COLOR is oppressed by the white race. Don't try to fuc.king say that that isn't true. White people belong to a group of the oppressors and people of color belong to the oppressed. You don't just GET OVER that. I for one don't give two fu.cks about racially ignorant white people

shakerz_1:

Yawn. And we don't care about people like you. Like I said, move on or stay stuck in the past, your call.


Every single race has been detrimental to others at certain times, just some of us don't stay stuck on it for our whole lives. Appreciate history and educate yourself, but don't get a massive chip on your shoulder that is only going to harm yourself in life. Also, you should really try conducting an adult response without talking like a hoodrat.

xxcarolxx:

A little irish history, The irish slave trade began in 1600 when james 11 sold irish prisoners to english settlers in antigua montserrat to name a few of the countries. During the 1650 over 100,000 children were taking from their parents and sold. Africian slaves were considered more valuable than an irish slave, an africian slave was sold for 50 pounds as an irish slave was sold for 5 pounds. If an irish slave was whipped or killed it didnt matter as they were cheaper than africans. If an irish slave rebelled he was hung by his hands and his feet set alight or either had their heads chopped off and placed on pikes to serve as a warning to others. The english then began to breed irish women with african men to save money on slaves also these mixed race kids were also sold at market at a higher price. Yes they were bound on their rat infested slave ships.

Following the arrival of twenty Africans aboard a Dutch man-of-war in Virginia in 1619, the face of American slavery began to change from the "tawny" Indian to the "blackamoor" African in the years between 1650 and 1750. Though the issue is complex, the unsuitability of Native Americans for the labor intensive agricultural practices, their susceptibility to European diseases, the proximity of avenues of escape for Native Americans, and the lucrative nature of the African slave trade led to a transition to an African based institution of slavery. During this period of transition, however, the colonial "wars" against the Pequots, the Tuscaroras, the Yamasees, and numerous other Indian nations led to the enslavement and relocation of tens of thousands of Native Americans. In the early years of the eighteenth century, the number of Native American slaves in areas such as the Carolinas may have been as much as half of the African slave population. During this transitional period, Africans and Native Americans shared the common experience of enslavement. In addition to working together in the fields, they lived together in communal living quarters, produced collective recipes for food and herbal remedies, shared myths and legends, and ultimately became lovers. The intermarriage of Africans and Native Americans was facilitated by the disproportionality of African male slaves to females (3 to 1) and the decimation of Native American males by disease, enslavement, and prolonged wars with the colonists.

As Native American societies in the Southeast were primarily matrilineal, African males who married Native American women often became members of the wife's clan and citizens of the respective nation. As relationships grew, the lines of distinction began to blur. The evolution of red-black people began to pursue its own course; many of the people who came to be known as slaves, free people of color, Africans, or Indians were most often the product of integrating cultures. In areas such as Southeastern Virginia, The Low Country of the Carolinas, and Silver Bluff, S.C., communities of Afro-Indians began to spring up. The depth and complexity of this intermixture is revealed in a 1740 slave code in South Carolina: all Negroes and Indians, (free Indians in amity with this government, and Negroes, mulattos, and mustezoes, who are now free, excepted) mulattos or mustezoes who are now, or shall hereafter be in this province, and all their issue and offspring, shall be and they are hereby declared to be, and remain hereafter absolute slaves

The first known Virginia statute punishing interracial sexual relations was enacted in 1662. Act XII, 2 Laws of Va. 170, 170 (Hening 1823) (enacted 1662), cited in, Leon Higginbotham, Jr. and Barbara K. Kopytoff, Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia, 77 Geo. L.J. 1967 (1989); supra, at 1993. As early as 1691, Virginia had enacted a statute punishing interracial marriage. Act XVI, Laws of Va. 86, 86-87 (Hening 1812) (enacted 1691), cited in, Higginbotham, supra, at 1995. The antimiscegenation laws and prohibitions were the legal manifestations of an often violently enforced taboo against sexual relations between white women and black men. The punishment in 1691 for marriage between an English or white individual and a black, mulatto, or Indian was banishment and removal from Virginia forever

1663
Maryland Settlers pass law stipulating that all imported blacks are to be given the status of slaves. Free white women who marry black slaves are to be slaves during the lives of their spouses, Ironically, children born of white servant women and blacks are regarded as free by a 1681 law.

1664
Maryland passes a law making lifelong servitude for black slaves mandatory to prevent them from taking advantage of legal precedents established in England which grant freedom under certain conditions, such as conversion to Christianity. Similar laws are later passed in New York, New Jersey, the Carolinas and Virginia.

One characteristic which set American slavery apart was its racial basis. In America, with only a few early and insignificant exceptions, all slaves were Africans, and almost all Africans were slaves. This placed the label of inferiority on black skin and on African culture. In other societies, it had been possible for a slave who obtained his freedom to take his place in his society with relative ease. In America, however, when a slave became free, he was still obviously an African