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JR's avatar

I understand and feel your frustration, David, but I think you are over generalizing about black folks. What is the basis for your comments?

ALL blacks did not want to kill ALL whites. The African Slave trade was a materialistic, economic, brutal and inhumane psychological act. Blacks were considered sub-human. Blacks were a "business" to the Southern plantation owners. Blacks were subjected to crop-breeding, inter-racial rape, and mental conditioning.

Lynching was not, ethnic cleansing. Lyching was an immoral and hateful mob act! Since blacks were considered sub-human, why not hang them from a tree?

David, you can try to kill an entire race like was tried with the Native Americans, people of Jewish faith etc., etc., but it is impossible. The best thing is to break their spirit! People of different cultures are resilient! Fear is the motivation of hatred, as well as xenophobia.

My friend, ALL blacks are NOT complicit to genocide.

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David Barnwell's avatar

That isn't true. Lynching was an attempt at ethnic cleansing. White Americams did not want black people living in America after slavery. Lynching and other forms of terrorism were attempts to get them "voluntarily exile themselves" (the thing the Israelis want to do to the Palestinians).

If Black people failed to leave on their own...the plan was to kill us all. That is also what Zionists, like Biden, want to do to Palestinians.

I never said ALL Blacks wanted to kill ALL whites. Some black people are very happy collaborators. Some black people collaborated with slavery. The black people praising Biden's genocide are also collaborators.

I also never said that ALL Black people are complicit in genocide. I am black and I certainly not complicit. But, the black people who get on the morning showsand in the media programs praising Biden definitely are. The Black elected reps who praise Biden certainly are.

I saw this post today.

https://x.com/francesleach_/status/1843728823298445676

Would it kill Harris or some Harris surrogate to condemn this? The Israelis have murdered newborns many times before. Why can't those black morning show people, black influencers, black politicians etc say something about this?

They ARE complicit.

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JR's avatar

Umm. I suppose silence is a way to keep one's job, so call them complicit. Who am I to judge them? I try not to look at few through the eyes of race, culture, religion etc., but rather as humans who have a strong moral standard. Many people that spoken up have had their programs, discontinued (Medhi), or have been fired, or have quit on their own (Josh Paul, Tariq Habash). Speaking up is a slippery slope. Is a person wrong for not speaking up? That moral decision is up to them, but I cannot judge them, or walk in their shoes. I believe pressure has to be put on the elected officials by their constituents. (If DT gets in, good luck speaking up!) Anyway, I digressed.

We are all entitled to our opinion. I would just like to know what sources you are basing your opinion to back-up your statement about lynching as ethnic cleansing? Perhaps this link will further educate you about American lynching. https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/history-lynching-america

There was no way an entire population could have been lynched. Lynching was predominantly done in certain southern states. Alabama, Texas, and Mississippi were big on lynching. Some of those states instituted the state level "Jim Crow" laws.

David, I'm not trying to win a discussion here. I am fed up with the slaughter of folks in Gaza, the West Bank, and now, Lebanon chasing after Hamas/Hezbollah. To know that my government is suppling the munitions and finances is appalling. October 7th was horrific, but it does not justify in my eyes what is happening in the ME now. Blinken, Biden, et al are not listening. Will the US elections change the plight for Palestinians for better or worse (can it get any worse)? I cannot predict the future.

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David Barnwell's avatar

That's nonsense. The people currently committing the murders are doing so on the basis of race.

Lynching was always predicated on race. And racist attacks on black people occured outside Southern states.

Lynching is a strategy that is dedicated to extermination. That is it's goal.

Anyone who is black... who has a voice to speak out and who refuses to do so

... is a collaborator in genocide.

And they know that that is what they are. I wonder what is going to happen when Black people with a platform start talking about the next high profile lynching in America?

You know that there will be another one. The United States has not stopped being a racist society whilst conducting genocide in Palestine.

I suspect the genocide will have made it more racist than ever.

I wonder if anyone will ask those high profile black people why they're speaking out about a single lynching taking place in the US when they had nothing to say about mass lynchings in Palestine?

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