DD7 said:
Actually it was built on the backs of slaves and later cheap black labour.
Actually it wasn't.
"In Brian Inglis' Poverty and the Industrial Revolution we read: "Here then was a ready source of labor - and a very welcome one. The children were formally indentured as apprentices... What happened to them was nobody's concern. A parish in London, having got rid of a batch of unwanted pauper children, was unlikely to interest itself in their subsequent fate... The term 'apprenticeship' was in any case a misnomer...."
In Marjorie Cruikshank's Children and Industry: "many employers imported child apprentices, parish orphans from workhouses far and near. Clearly, overseers of the poor were only too keen to get rid of the orphans... children were brought (to the factories) like 'cartloads of live lumber' and abandoned to their fate... poor children, taken from workhouses or kidnapped in the streets of the metropolis, used to be brought down by... coach to Manchester and slid into a cellar in Mosley Street as if they had been stones or any other inanimate substance."
White children worked up to sixteen hours a day and during that period the doors were locked. Children - and most of the mill workers were children - were allowed out only to 'go to the necessary.' In some factories it was forbidden to open the windows... The child 'apprentices' who were on night shift might have to stay on it for as long as four or five years. They were lucky if they were given a half penny an hour.
This was labor without any breaks - unceasing labor. When the children fell asleep at the machines, they were lashed into wakefulness with a whip. If they arrived late to the factory, talked to another child, or committed some other infraction they were beaten with an iron bar known as a "billy-roller," eight feet long and one inch and a half in diameter. Many were thus murdered, often for trifling offenses such as calling out names to the next child.
Thousands of children were mangled or mutilated by the primitive factory machinery every year. They were often disfigured or disabled for life, then abandoned, receiving no compensation of any kind. Similar conditions obtained for enslaved White children on this side of the Atlantic, as what William Blake called "these Satanic Mills" spread to our shores.
Historian Oscar Handlin writes that in colonial America, White servants could be bartered for a profit, sold to the highest bidder for the unpaid debts of their masters, and otherwise transferred like moveable goods or chattels...
The controlled media focus exclusively on the enslavement of Blacks. The impression is given that only Whites bear responsibility for enslaving Blacks and that only Blacks were slaves. In fact, Blacks in Africa engaged in extensive enslavement of their own kind. Slavery was endemic in Africa, with entire tribes being enslaved through conquest on a regular basis. When Arabic, Jewish and White slave traders arrived on the coast of sub-Saharan Africa, they seldom if ever had to travel inland and fight or pursue their quarry. They were met on the coast by Africans more than willing to sell slaves to them by the thousands. And in America, records show that Black slaves were owned, not just by a few wealthy Whites, but by free Blacks and by Cherokee Indians. In some cases, these Blacks and Indians even owned White slaves.
White slaves were actually owned by Blacks and Indians in the South to such an extent that the Virginia Assembly passed the following law in 1670: "It is enacted that no negro or Indian though baptized and enjoying their own freedom shall be capable of any such purchase of Christians." The records of the time reveal that free Blacks often owned Black slaves themselves. In 1717, it was proposed that a qualification for election to the South Carolina Assembly was to be "the ownership of one White man."
From 1609 until the early 1800s, between one half and two thirds of all the White colonists who came to the New World came as slaves. White slaves cleared the forests, drained the swamps, built the roads, sweated in the fields, and died like flies in hellish factories. Owned like property, they had no rights nor recourse to the law. Fugitive slave laws applied to them just as to Blacks if they should flee their masters. Black slaves were expensive, and though at times cruelly used, were not often used beyond the limits of human endurance. That would have been a waste of a costly investment. White slaves, however, consisting of the poor and unwanted "surplus population" of Britain, were available for nearly nothing, just a few pence for a thug to billyclub them and shanghai them aboard a westward-bound vessel. Thus they were expendable."
DD7 said:
Yup, but what can you expect when they had nothing but corruption from whites when they left and carving up africa like a cake without respect to history.
Wrong again buddy. The correct phrase would be "Yup, but what can you expect when they had nothing but corruption from blacks who were responsible for enslaving other blacks for centuries before the first white slave trader landed on the African continent.
Again, EVERY OTHER MAJOR CIVILIZATION ON THE FACE OF THE PLANET SUFFERED CENTURIES OF SLAVERY. But you continue to use this as an excuse exclusively as to why the African continent has failed to produce a single stable country. What part of that isn't sinking through your head? The rest of the world went through exactly the same problems with slavery the Africans did, did ya get that or do I have to repeat it again?
DD7 said:
Well it was only in 1965 that blacks even got cival rights. 400 years of slavery cannot wipe out ghetto culture overnight.
Again see first and second response.
DD7 said:
Plus there are plenty of poor white trash, blacks and mexicans.
Name the top 10 most successful, productive, and technological advanced societies on earth and I won't even have to answer this.
DD7 said:
Don't forget white slavery practiced today, lots of white women from america are sold to arab countries and oil is a lot more important than that.
Don't forget black slavery today. Today in many African countries blacks are still enslaving blacks. And lets not forget about South Africa where racism against whites is so bad that death threats are regularly placed to white farmers and laws are passed to discriminate against whites.
If you feel you must engage in name calling, please do so in The Basement. IF you feel you can make an airtight, evidence based case that RPF does, in deed, love nazis, please start your own thread instead of derailing this one w/ a debate about RPF's alleged naziphilia. And, since it would be a thread about you problem w/ RPF, please start that thread in The Basement.