Riots in Oakland

[Jimbob_Rebel]

Slaves before america were prisoner's of war.

slaves in america were prisoners of war that were sold, then the europeans got greedy and pillages the coast and took as they pleased.

there is a difference in winning then taking the remaining as your own and robbing a bank because you don't have as much of something that you would like to.

You forgot to mention that "prisoners of war" in africa were often eaten.

[Jimbob_Rebel]

You said it better then I could have. Nice post.

Envy and avarice have not changed much over the millenia although the handy excuses that men take up to justify the aforementioned might assume any guise.

[Jimbob_Rebel]

Race is a diversion, as is sports, tv, and movies. Keep the sheep calling each other names and slaughter them all the while.

"No one may be indifferent to the racial principle, the racial question. It is the key to world history. History is often confusing because it is written by people who did not understand the racial question and the aspects relevant to it... Race is everything, and every race that does not keep its blood from being mixed will perish. . . Language and religion do not determine a race--blood determines it."

--British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli

[razzor7]

I believe in my heart that Mehserle murdered that poor black man, but I'm equally sure that if such a verdict was reached based on the evidence it would have been an unfair verdict. If we could read minds this racist bastard would be in prison for murder but sadly that's not how justice works.

[Jimbob_Rebel]

Love the way slavery is referred to as "some event that took place over 100 years ago".

Good point Mike, it's still being practiced in modern africa................and I havn't even brought up the Fed and our fractional reserve banking system.

[tom502]

The fact is large numbers of free Negroes owned black slaves; in fact, in numbers disproportionate to their representation in society at large. In 1860 only a small minority of whites owned slaves. According to the U.S. census report for that last year before the Civil War, there were nearly 27 million whites in the country. Some eight million of them lived in the slaveholding states.

The census also determined that there were fewer than 385,000 individuals who owned slaves (1). Even if all slaveholders had been white, that would amount to only 1.4 percent of whites in the country (or 4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves).

In the rare instances when the ownership of slaves by free Negroes is acknowledged in the history books, justification centers on the claim that black slave masters were simply individuals who purchased the freedom of a spouse or child from a white slaveholder and had been unable to legally manumit them. Although this did indeed happen at times, it is a misrepresentation of the majority of instances, one which is debunked by records of the period on blacks who owned slaves. These include individuals such as Justus Angel and Mistress L. Horry, of Colleton District, South Carolina, who each owned 84 slaves in 1830. In fact, in 1830 a fourth of the free Negro slave masters in South Carolina owned 10 or more slaves; eight owning 30 or more (2).

According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country’s leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.

[sgreger1]

I believe in my heart that Mehserle murdered that poor black man, but I'm equally sure that if such a verdict was reached based on the evidence it would have been an unfair verdict. If we could read minds this racist bastard would be in prison for murder but sadly that's not how justice works.

I dunno, have you seen the video? He looks pretty shocked after it happened and he realized he shot him. You could see he was like "Oh ****, what did I just do". I don't think he came into the situation planning on killing this particular person infront of a crowd of people to be honest. I think he was just being trigger happy like cops tend to be. Not really sure it's racist just because the other person had a different skin color.