"2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will."

open your bible, don't be scared.

namecalling and insults only, as expected

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What's wrong with being a bigot?

sauci posted a pic which literally read "the reality of how America was built", depicting the country to have been built on the back of slavery and the exploitation of the black man as THE key building block. which is obviously a silly narrative.




wealth tends to be self-reinforcing. the wealth gap of today is the echo of racist policies and slavery of the past, but it can persist in the present even in the absence of discrimination or "systemic racism". as usual, lefties like you need to be reminded that 'inequality' does not automatically/under each and every circumstances equal 'discrimination'.


the big catch 22 of America is that this economic echo of past discrimination cannot be addressed without either large-scale redistribution of wealth from rich to poor, or by targetted discrimination of whites. the latter is the position of BLM activists and CRT-adjacent scholars as well as many progressive politicians like The Squad, but it is also politically radioactive. the former is prevented by the true systemic nature of the U.S.: the country and its institutions are set up on every level to protect and foster the interests of the super rich at the expense of everyone else, rather than to protect the interests of whites at the expense of non-whites.

if the left in America stopped its fucking obsession with race and tried to sort the political coalitions around class lines instead of aligning itself with the Zuckerbergs, Bezos' and Soros' of the world, they could achieve significantly more positive change for poor Americans, no matter if they're black, white or brown.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 2 2022 08:13pm

Yeah for sure slavery is not the absolute entire source of american wealth but simply have to imagine how history would have been without it. It bring an enormous wealth into US and changed its path for ever.


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...by 1860, there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the lower Mississippi Valley than anywhere else in the United States. In the same year, the nearly 4 million American slaves were worth some $3.5 billion, making them the largest single financial asset in the entire U.S. economy, worth more than all manufacturing and railroads combined. So, of course, the war was rooted in these two expanding and competing economies—but competing over what? What eventually tore asunder America's political culture was slavery's expansion into the Western territories.
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https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/slavery-made-america/373288/

There was slavery all throughout latin america in the 19th century. Why didnt they also become wealthy and powerful?

Not really. They generated a massive amount of wealth by being the absolute backbone of all agriculture in the western hemisphere for over 100 years.

western hemisphere? you do realise there is a bit more to the hemisphere than the states? europe?

the profitability of slavery and colonialism is grossly overrated

most places were net losses and just provided some luxury wares for the upper class

Europe gained massive wealth from colonial slavery in the Caribbean. Same with ownership of south America. You should pick up a history textbook if you don't think slavery and colonialism was extremely profitable for Europe.

Haiti was so profitable France was willing to go to war to keep the island. It was more profitable than all 13 of the American colonies alone.

This post was edited by NetflixAdaptationWidow on Jan 2 2022 09:39pm