Chris Rock Tweets "Happy White People's Day"

That's how you know he's probably one of those good ol' boys who have one or more of those ignorant Confederate flags flying on his property or posted in the back window of his pick-up or bumper stickered up.....

 

I thought everyday is white ppl day, lol

 

Yes, for anyone to see slavery as an economic institution alone, and not something that undermined the arguments for freedom during the march towards independence from Mother England is operating with blinders on.

Slavery is, however, an economic institution and a primary reason why later the Civil War was fought. White northerners didn't largely take up arms against the south out of a moral impulse to free blacks. No. White laborers in the north justifiably feared competition from the incursion of slave labor into the rest of the country. Working conditions and wages would've, pardon the pun, headed south in the wake of southerners being allowed to use slave labor in the north.

Slavery, capitalism, feudalism, mercantilism, bartering, and socialism all have unique shortcomings, moral and otherwise, because they are systems conceived and run by us!

 

Ummm...yeah. I know all about the ins and outs of why the Civil War was fought and how slavery was viewed by Southerners at the time. Southern born and raised over here. Just pointing out that most people today that use that argument of "economic institution", especially those who reside in the South, usually are the types who would have no problems re-instituting said "economic institution" if they could.

And you're right. No economic or governing system is without short comings. And there will always be those seeking to exploit those shortcomings for their own benefit in one form or another.

 

THe economy of the antebellum South was SLAVERY. Free labor.
You can't decouple the enslavement of Africans from an academic argument over economics.

Union soldiers knew what they were fighting for, the supremacy of the Federal government and the rule of law. You'd have to be an idiot in 1865 not to realize the Southern economy was built upon the backs on enslaved Africans, or understand that the South seceded from the Union to preserve that economy.

 

That is true. Mississippi was one of the richest state in the South before the Civil War. Also,the Confederate Constitution made slavery legal.

 

Chris Rock always keeping it 100.

 

Obama is not black he's biracial.

 

Now it's the poorest state in america.

 

chris rock is just trying to stay relevant

 

Anyone with a basic understanding of US history would be able to concur with Chris Rock. The war by far was mainly about celebrating freedom, and independence from Britain while keeping black slaves.

I would also add that George Washington didn't even want blacks in his army until after Great Britain promised freedom to any black man who pledged loyalty to the crown.

I would also add there was an incident where American troops masqueraded as british troops doing this, and got a bunch of slaves to show up, and then they ambushed those slaves, and returned them to their masters.

I would also add Britain made slavery illegal before the United States.

 

we (black and white) all know he is right but the question is why even bring it up.....because he is trying to stay relevant

 

Trying to stay relevant?

His film Madagascar 3 has grossed over 453 million dollars worldwide.

 

His film?

He is the voice of a cartoon character. Lot's of big names and he doesn't have top billing for his voice even. :smt043

 

LOL

 

When the checks stop coming in...

Insert foot in mouth

 

LOL. hell yeah. playing the race card in jokes is getting dated

 

Ya know I have friends of different races and religions. I try to be respectful of their celebrations and holidays even if they aren't "my own". You have to give respect to get it.

I was appalled on FB what redneck white people were putting up on Martin Luther King's holiday. Is this any different?? People won't come together without mutual respect.

I do believe as Goodlove, that Chris Rock is trying to keep his name out there. Sorry but I cannot see any other reason for this.

 

Did you just compare MLK's birthday to the 4th of July?LOL

 

The American experiment didn't stop and start in 1776. THe 4th is when the colonies declared independence from the Brits and began the loonnngg process of becoming a NATION.

It was the first step in a journey of a million miles IMO.

I'm certain the recognition of the 4th of July as a holiday had special significance in 1865 and at the end of the Civil War, or when the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.

Or when the U.S. entered WWII and joined forces with the Allied troops to overthrow Nazi Germany and the Allied forces.

Or when the voting rights act was signed into law.

To suggest Black folk have nothing to celebrate during the 4th is to imply we aren't a part of the history of this great country.

I may not hang the Star and Stripes on the 4th, but I always take pride on how far we as a people have come in the U.S.
We, as in ALL PEOPLE.