MAGA has been properly translated into meaning “authoritarian supporter, who wants to do away with the American Constitution and system of laws and economy.”
Ok cool my comment wasn’t about the laws but about the perceived actions which motivated the law to be created.
Slavery, indeed, wasn’t racially motivated. Unless you believe Babylonians enslaving Babylonians or Jews enslaving Jews was?
Typically enslavement was the penalty you faced when losing a war. It was a military action with financial benefits.
Shit, Africans to this day enslave other Africans. It’s not racial. Lol. The only time in history we injected race into it was in America.
There was an identical, twice as large Eastern Slave trade that went to Persia and Saudi Arabia. But the Muslims made those men eunuchs so we don’t see them any more. Problem solved.
I understand they don’t have a chemical difference. I didn’t argue such. I said they are prepared and ingested differently which causes different effects in the body.
I also said that crack is much more heavily linked to violent crimes which was the cause for the strict sentencing guidelines.
Now, instead of building straw men- deal with what I actually said.
They get cracked down on bc they don’t have the lawyers to defend themselves like white collar criminals, they’re black and we have a private prison system that’s built on slavery for private corporate benefit. How territorial were the cocaine distribution networks of the early 80s, before crack? Quite. BUT, when it became black kids with cocaine, well…now, there’s a prime labor group who can’t fight back. There is a reason the flood over excess cocaine flown in under the protection of the Reagan administration led to a crack epidemic in the black community and the higher ups like Blandon who got caught were swept up by Reagan’s CIA in protection and didn’t face charges. It wasn’t an accident that they needed a way to distribute the vast amounts of cocaine and the “bar scene crowd” just couldn’t absorb that much and they found it in the black community with a new way to make it, which originated in Peru. I used to think Freeway Rick Ross and the like were full of it when they were talking with Gary Webb in the early 90s. I no longer thing that way.
This was a setup from start to finish. Iran/Contra/Cocaine/Crack
Wait a minute….
You’re comparing black gang bangers (crips and bloods) to white collar criminals?
This is a non sequitur. If this board was a calculator, it would take your statement and spit back “does not compute.”
It’s a horrible analogy. Violent criminals are not equal to financial criminals. And the reason for their disparate sentences doesn’t lie in quality of legal counsel but in nature of crime.
Don’t believe me? Go ask the thousands of mafia that are in jail for murder.
Ah, so “white collar criminals” are using cocaine, and the dangerous black gang bangers are using crack. The “white collar criminals” are safe and good and we should be lenient, but the “super predators” in black gangs…they should get 100 to 1 sentencing.
What’s curious is that you consider use of cocaine and anything involved with powder cocaine to be “white collar” and “financial.”
Why, I believe we have exhibit A of the issue, right here. Whereas, in reality, the Medellin Cartel and Guadalupe Cartel of the late 70s and 80s slaughtered quite a few people…in their “white collar” drug war. In 1980 Miami had 573 murders related to cocaine and 621 in 1981. By 1981, the city morgye had an overload of dead bodies and were forced to rent out refrigerated trucks to keep the bodies, until 1988.
That’s just your home turf of Miami. How white collar of them…right?
Might I recommend Cocaine Cowboys? Great doc.
Just because YOU see powder cocaine as “white collar”, all that means is you see white as good and black as bad. Nothing more, nothing special. You display the problem right there and RIGHT THERE is evidence of the institutional racism we were talking about with CRT. You ignore the scientific data that shows crack and powder are the same thing, same pharmacology, same. BUT, you’re okay with 100 to 1 sentencing on the “black gang bangers” and call people involved with powder as “white collar criminals.”
You’re not special, not a snowflake. You’re just a basic racist.
I never said cocaine was a white collar crime not compared them to white collar anything…. YOU DID. Look above.
As far as cocaine distribution- it’s different than cocaine possession.
Distribution comes with up to 15 years.
Possession does not.
So why are you conflating the 2?
You are one corny, stupid, non-funny motherfucker. You really typed that…Parentheses and all.
No that’s your delusional, sanctimonious take on the matter.
You’re just a basic racist.
Oh joy…Another racism expert. Leftists’ favorite word
they’re black and we have a private prison system that’s built on slavery for private corporate benefit.
Not because they are black…Because they are poor. Poor white people can’t get good lawyers either.
Lol…More race education from the board’s Jamele Hill.
No we’re not…You’re just on a delusional rant. Because you are a delusional meltdown prone leftist cunt. It’s what you do. Carry on by all means
It’s amazing how it all defaults to race.
They need it…Contrived racism. It’s so pathetic.
In general, no. How the US did it, 100%. Don’t believe me? Show me other races put into chains in the United States that weren’t black. Was the slave trade going through Denmark? Nope, it was going through Africa. In fact, the concepts of race came about to justify the African slave trade.
You mean outside of where he cited it himself?
Lol- slavery predated the formation of the entity known as “The US” or “the United States of America” so your points is a bad one.
Slavery started in the Americas way before the Revolution.
I’m fact- the Native Americans practiced it here. The Apache enslaved their Native neighbors as did the Comanche and others. We’re they racist?
What are you even talking about, GSC?
Warden’s saying that chattel slavery in the West was a racist institution. Are you seriously arguing that?
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Chattel slavery isn’t a novel concept. It existed in Greece and Rome as well. All it meant and means today is the slave is deprived of rights and liberty as opposed to an indentured servant or forced marriage where that person is given limited rights by his “owners.”
This has nothing to do with race. It didn’t originate in the Americas. It’s all a myth.
Many many many American blacks owned slaves in early America before and after the revolution. And no- they didn’t do it to release them or buy their freedom…. They did it for the same reasons whites did.
Let me give you guys a clue why blacks got the bad end of the deal here…. Neighboring tribes in Africa, and sometimes their own family- would sell them into bondage. They were monetized and productized by their own countrymen. It was a literal market.
Had this market been in Asia or Yugoslavia, it would have been the same result.
Ergo the reason why slave (Slav) has its name.
You both need to go research this topic.
No one said it was a novel concept. Warden said, and I agree, that chattel slavery the US and the West engaged in was based on race.
Who are you arguing with? Unless I’m missing something, nobody in this thread said anything about African chattel slavery originating in the US or the Americas.
This doesn’t detract from the point. Nobody here is denying that some blacks were free.
Then why didn’t the US purchase slaves of other races? You’ve already established that they existed around the world, right? What was stopping a US salve owner from purchasing white and Asian slaves and chaining them up on their plantations?
Answer that question and you get to the heart of the matter.
And then, what astounds me the most about your straw man arguments (who no one’s arguing but you) and your odd position is you already came right out and said this:
Which is… you know… EXACTLY WHAT WARDEN IS SAYING.
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Because this was the most efficient and cheapest market. Why go anywhere else?
Other slaves you’d have to fight and win a war for. Or steal them from their family.
THIS WAS AN OPEN MARKET. Economics.
It’s my entire point. Keep up.
“Injected” as in “labeled it as such” knock it off.
So no one ever buys anything from more expensive markets? No one ever decided to be unique and have a status symbol in the form of a different slave?
Or buy them. Are you trying to tell me only Africans were available for sale around the world?
And remember, this isn’t a matter of convenience. Convenience explains the majority, but not the totality.
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