White Privilege - The Game of Racial Envy

I'm Not Guilty for Crimes I Didn't Commit - Who Is? No One in My Mind!

There is no "White Privilege". When you look at how D.E.I. works. However, there is black privilege, Asian privilege, lesbian privilege, gay privilege, female privilege etc. The white heterosexual male is shoved to the bottom of the list no matter what his IQ is or what his abilities are.

In their monumental study of slavery, “Time on the Cross," Fogel and Engerman estimated that roughly 85 percent of the economic output of American slave labor was consumed by the slaves themselves in the form of food, clothing, et cetera. Excepting, of course, the political or moral dimensions of slavery itself, then, what is economically in dispute is that 15 percent of the value of slave labor that accrued to slave owners. However, much of the value of goods produced by slaves went to pay such expenses as the hire of overseers, shipping fees, interest on loans, et cetera. So the notion of anyone, that slaveowners kept ALL the value of slave labor, is simply not true.

As Fogel and Engerman further demonstrate, the conditions of African slavery in the American South were the mildest of any place in the New World. Cuba, Brazil and other Caribbean slave economies were forced to continually import slaves because the death rate was so high on the tropical plantations. The death rate was higher than the birth rate for slaves in those regions. By contrast, it is estimated that a total of only 500,000 black slaves were imported to the U.S. between 1630 and 1810 -- most of those in the century 1710-1810. By 1860, those 500,000 had multiplied eightfold, to 4,000,000 blacks; half a million of those blacks were free in 1860 -- with slightly more free blacks in the South than in the North at the outbreak of the Civil War. If blacks were going to be exported as chattel slaves to the New World, then, their best chance of survival was to be landed in the United States.

The concept that, because their ancestors were held as slaves in the United States over the course of a century or two, that modern blacks are entitled to some compensation for that experience, is totally absurd. Had their ancestors been held in Jamaica or Brazil or Cuba, they would have been worse off than they were in the US. And, had they not been brought here as slaves, blacks might never have been allowed to immigrate here as free men. (Let any black man today apply for residency in Japan or Australia and see how far he gets.) One need not defend the institution of slavery to understand that it was the sine qua non of the establishment of a substantial black population in the United States -- no slavery, no blacks. The demand for reparations then, can be boiled down to: "Pay us for being here." But when "here" is the richest, most "free" nation on earth, when poor foreigners pay large sums to smugglers hoping just to GET here, one can hardly imagine that residency in the U.S. qualifies as an intolerable burden. Now they don't even have to pay, they can come and get paid for being here to the detriment of the current citizens.

Any argument along the line of "blacks are bad off in the United States" begs the question: Compared to what? Are blacks worse off in the United States compared to blacks in Cuba, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Eritrea? Are they worse off than Asians in Indonesia, Chinese in Communist China, Mexicans in Chiapas, Afghanis under the Taliban? Of course not, nobody would argue that. The average black person in America enjoys a standard of living superior to more than 90 percent of the world's population. Many are in high paid jobs BECAUSE they are black, without any other qualifications! What commonly is being claimed is that blacks in the United States are, on average, worse off than WHITES in the United States.

Guilt-mongers are playing a game of racial envy, inciting blacks to imagine that white Americans enjoy an unfair "privilege" which -- preposterously -- they want to attribute to the wrongs of an institution that perished 160 years ago in a war that claimed the lives of more than half a million WHITE Americans. I am "poor" and "underprivileged" compared to Bill Gates and Ted Turner; but does this mean that I am a victim of discrimination or of some "hideous legacy" stemming from a great wrong of the distant past? To whom, among all those who oppressed my ancestors, do I apply for reparations -- the Normans? The Saxons? the Romans? Quite nearly ALL of the wealth derived from slave labor was destroyed in the Civil War. Southerners put their money in Confederate bonds and currency, which became worthless in 1865. Homes, barns, fences, cattle, crops – the thieving northern armies stole everything they could take with them, and burned what they couldn't take. They stole from slaveowner and yeoman alike, and committed other crimes, like rape and outright murder, without regard for the sex or race of their victims. Do some reserach about the march to the sea by General Sherman.

Any of you apologists can go to Sweetwater Creek State Park west of Atlanta, Georgia, and study the history of what happened there. The four-story factory was burned to the ground by Sherman's troops, and the poor white mill hands were transported north by train under armed guard, never to see their homes again. Bridges, dams, mills, factories, libraries, schools -- the senseless and brutal destruction unleashed upon the Confederacy impoverished the South, black and white both for more than two generations. And Yankees wonder to this day why so many southern folks don’t take a liking to them. It brings back bad memories passed on to them by their fathers and grand fathers. How many realize that since the burning of the Sweetwater mill, there has not been another four-story building built in Douglas County TO THIS VERY DAY? The greatest architectural achievement in county history was destroyed by Sherman. How can blacks claim they are owed something for slavery, when the wealth they produced as slaves was destroyed in the course of the war by the very armies that were supposedly freeing them?

Easy for those fools in Chicago and elsewhere to suppose blacks are owed something, without thinking who owes it to them. Probably the damn fools are planning some way to extract even more out of the long-suffering whites folks of the South, now that it has finally struggled to economic equality with the North. Well, they can KISS MY ASS. Southern white folks have been kicked around long enough, battered and abused in the name of "racial justice" until we are damn near sick of it. Ever hear of “reconstruction”? The carpet baggers? How about the improperly ratified 14 amendment that the southern states weren’t allowed to vote on? Oh, and I’m sure north vs south isn’t really in their minds as much because when it comes down to it they want ALL whites to pay for what happened to some blacks a couple of hundred years ago. What a crock.

If they somehow manage to persuade an effective majority of Americans that blacks have got something coming to them, they'll damned sure not get a dime from me. For any of you that read this...I'll let you know that what I would be considered at the time of the War for Southern independence was a "Copperhead". A Yankee that saw through all the crap and headed south to defend it from the encroachment of an all powerful federal government which goes directly against what the Founding Fathers envisioned with a LIMITED Federal Government. Not one that can send out agents to murder with impunity and that can tell the states what to do. Remember which came first...The STATES of the Federal Government? YOU know the answer…I am

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