Racist! Really?

@Caracus2k — please could you expand on your earlier comment:

Caracus2k said:
Perhaps you should read up on your history more 'white' Europeans were taken to Africa as slaves than African slaves taken to what now constitutes the USA.
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I'm struggling to find information relating to this (at least for the ~300 years that covered the African slave trade). As I said in my previous post, I've seen Robert Davis' research into Christian slavery on the Barbary Coast — but he was talking about 1–1.5m Christians being enslaved over a ~250 year period, not the estimated 10–12m Africans that were shipped to the Americas.
 
Irish_Tom said:
@Caracus2k — please could you expand on your earlier comment:
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I specifically said 'what now constitutes the USA' for this reason.

The most comprehensive analysis of shipping records over the course of the slave trade is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by professors David Eltis and David Richardson. (While the editors are careful to say that all of their figures are estimates, I believe that they are the best estimates that we have, the proverbial "gold standard" in the field of the study of the slave trade.) Between 1525 and 1866, in the entire history of the slave trade to the New World, according to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World. 10.7 million survived the dreaded Middle Passage, disembarking in North America, the Caribbean and South America.

And how many of these 10.7 million Africans were shipped directly to North America? Only about 388,000. That's right: a tiny percentage.
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https://www.theroot.com/how-many-slaves-landed-in-the-us-1790873989

I suggest there's an over emphasis on slavery concerning Britain, its colonies and successor nations like the USA . The largest amount of slaves went to Brazil (a Portuguese colony)... Circa 40% or 4.9 million of the slaves that reached the Americas from Africa.


There is a narrative that 'whites' and their countries are 'rich' primarily of the back of slavery and as such some form of reparative action is justified.

The also I would suggest often an implied suggestion that the lead group for trans Atlantic slavery was the British and their colonies.

Such a world view doesn't stand up well to scrutiny in my opinion given the widespread use of slavery by many different peoples in the past and given that the biggest slavers in the trans Atlantic game, the Portuguese, are not a particularly wealth nation now and neither is their largest colony, Brazil.
 
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mmj_uk said:
This is the best analysis I have seen on the topic:
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I can't take someone seriously who has videos entitled:

'Alex Jones DESTROYS Marco Rubio'
'Truth Isn't Truth and Guiliani is 100% correct'
'Trump Destroys Lebron James life in a single tweet'
'Mission Impossible: Fallout - I HATE THIS MOVIE'
'Incredibles 2 Movie Review - FEMINIST PROPAGANDA'
 
VincentHanna said:
I can't take someone seriously who has videos entitled:

'Alex Jones DESTROYS Marco Rubio'
'Truth Isn't Truth and Guiliani is 100% correct'
'Trump Destroys Lebron James life in a single tweet'
'Mission Impossible: Fallout - I HATE THIS MOVIE'
'Incredibles 2 Movie Review - FEMINIST PROPAGANDA'
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Blimey, who watches crap like that?
 
second clip in this compilation is worth a watch, Serena and the US open again (back in 2009), already had a warning for racket abuse.... then abusing a lineswoman, though this time she's not just rude but utters threats "I swear to God I'll ****ing take the ball and shove it down your ****ing throat." (not audible in clip)

and then (this bit is partly disputed), to add to it, threatens to either "hit" or "kill" her... the official claims "kill" and Serena approaches too and says "are you scared, because I said I would hit you"

same two officials 9 years ago coming out onto the court to clam things down too

(starts at 56 seconds in)

I guess at least she didn't claim she was standing up for women's rights in that instance, while abusing and threatening violence towards a much lower status/lower paid female employee.

Oh and her immediate reaction to the incident after the match was:

"An apology from me? How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen. I am a professional. I'm not the beggar, like, 'Please, please, please, let me have another chance,' because it was the rules and I play by the rules."
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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/sep/13/serena-williams-tirade-us-open

Oh and as for all the stuff online about how men don't get penalised, watch the clip immediately after with McEnroe where he accumulates three code violations - unsportsmanlike behaviour, racket abuse and then verbal abuse...
 
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The irony of liberals frothing over perceived racist implications in this cartoon of a woman, who, with her immediate family, give public Black Power salutes is huge. I wonder if a white player giving the "OK" sign (apparently a new gesture of "White Power" that has gained some traction) to the crowd at a major tournament would be accepted with such quiet resignation? I also wonder how many of left wing persuasion here have decried Reddit as a Right leaning media source unaware she's married to the co-founder and executive chairman, and that he is also a highly successful venture capitalist?
 
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