This weekend, over at Sadly, No!, I posted a goofy bit inspired by Barack Obama's terrific 'national dialogue on race' speech and the innumerable batshit-crazy racist responses to it by white conservatives.
A couple of people commented that it would be fun to do as an animated .gif, a la the well-known Bjork/Diddy bit.
Well, thanks to dedicated commenter justme, it is done:
A couple of people commented that it would be fun to do as an animated .gif, a la the well-known Bjork/Diddy bit.
Well, thanks to dedicated commenter justme, it is done:
Comments
Yes, it does ruin the whole argument for me. I simply refuse to believe that African Americans have a grievance when the simple tally don't figure.
If you restrict the argument to the United States, sure, 400 years is a bogus figure, since the country is only 232 years old. But: the first English settlement in America was in 1607, and while they didn't have slaves at Jamestown, a shipment of African slaves followed a year later, which makes it precisely 400 years this year. Of course, if you figure the Indies into it, and South America, it's more than 400.
Not to be a dick (and doesn't that always mean "to be a complete dick?"), but in order to avoid having nabobs go "that's not the SAME slave trade, not the SAME damaged culture, last I checked, Haiti and Brasil were not part of the Confederacy," I myself am going to use 250 as my ballpark, Jamestown to end of civil war. It's plenty shameful without having to parse for even the goodhearted rubes such as me, who go "well, I remember the Bicentennial back in the 70's..."