Left 4 Dead is racist!

[dtewi]

Zizzla_Rachet said:

dtewi said:

Zizzla_Rachet said:

dtewi said:

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Samus Aran said:

I couldn't care less if it did. I have enough racism towards me to not care about black people being to victim all the time

I just hate it when black people always talk about you white people threated us bad and we were your slaves... Um, no, we didn't threat you bad and you were never a slave is what I respond then.

I have a lot of Muslim friends and also some black friends, but they don't see white people as something bad like a lot of black peopel do(in my country atleast, cant speak for the world)

In case you were born on Mars.....

In America Africans were slaves...To "White" people

 

So, let me get this straight. All black peope living in America now were slaves and I owned a plantation and whipped someone until their name was Toby.

EDIT: Also, why do you seem so cautious to use "black" and "white"?

So Before 1910..It just did not happen? You think making a quip about Roots will make history disapear?

Becuase I'm mixed(Taino,Spain,African)..So I have always felt unsure about "Race" since my family members skin colors vary from "White", "Black" and "Brown"

What I'm trying to say and so has Samus Aran is that black people now did not have to suffer through that. I do not downplay it, but since they didn't go throught the torture and slavery, they shouldn't be complaining.

So becuase your grand father was a slave you should not complain?....

Do you even know the meaning of Civil Rights..?

Abolitionism was a movement to end the slave trade and emancipate slaves in western Europe and the Americas. The slave system aroused little protest until the 18th century, when rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment criticized it for violating the rights of man, and Quaker and other evangelical religious groups condemned it as un-Christian. Though antislavery sentiments were widespread by the late 18th century, they had little immediate effect on the centers of slavery themselves — the West Indies, South America, and the southern United States. The importation of African slaves was banned in the British colonies in 1807, and in the United States in 1808. In the British West Indies, slavery was abolished in 1827 and in the French possessions 15 years later.

In Britain, William Wilberforce had taken on the cause of abolition in 1787 after the formation of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, inwhich he led the Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire with the Slave Trade Act 1807, also campaigned for the abolition of slavery in British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833

In eleven states in the American South, however, slavery was a social and economic institution. American abolitionism labored under the handicap that it was accused of threatening the harmony of North and South in the Union. The abolitionist movement in the North was led by social reformers such as William Lloyd Garrison, founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society; writers such as John Greenleaf Whittier and Harriet Beecher Stowe; former slaves such as Frederick Douglass; and free blacks such as brothers Charles Henry Langston and John Mercer Langston, who helped found the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society.^[1]

The 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery to the West, marked a turning point in the movement. Convinced that their way of life was threatened, the Southern states seceded from the Union, which led to the American Civil War. In 1863 Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves held in the Confederate States; the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1865) prohibited slavery throughout the country. Slavery was first abolished in Latin America during the Independence Wars (1810–1822), but slavery remained a practice in the region up to 1888 (Brazil), particularly in the remaining Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico. In some parts of Africa and in much of the Islamic world, it persisted as a legal institution well into the 20th century.

Abolitionism was preceded by the New Laws of the Indies in 1542, in which Emperor Charles V declared free all native American slaves, abolishing slavery of these races, and declaring them citizens of the Empire with full rights. The move was prompted by the thoughts of the Spanish monk Bartolome de las Casas and the School of Salamanca. However, it wasn't a true abolition of slavery, as Spain replaced the American slaves with African ones.

Today, child and adult slavery and forced labour are illegal in most countries, as well as being against international law. Because slavery still exists, with an estimated 27 million people enslaved worldwide, a new international abolitionist movement has recently emerged.

 

What a well thought out argument! It's almost as if you didn't just copy and paste from Wikipedia!

Let's ignore that whole second part since it doesn't concern racism in America today.

So, since my grandfather was a slave, I should get to complain! No, it didn't happen to you. Black people in America currently living now in the year 2009 were not slaves so they don't get to bitch about it.

If the opinions presented seem in any way controversial, kindly shut up and make your way to the exit.