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What has the Democrat Party actually done for black Americans?

They voted against abolishing slavery and supported Jim Crow laws. For the past several decades, they have created horrible neighborhoods (e.g subsidized housing) and moved black people into those horrible neighborhoods. They encourage welfare, which makes black people less inclined to pursue an education and build a better life as they become dependent on the state. Now, they have reached the point where their leader says that black people "ain't black" if they choose not to vote Democrat. This shows how much of a threat black Americans are to Democrats when they know that *they* are the party keeping them poor and making their lives more miserable. Before you think that "black people can't get jobs 'cos racism", consider that black people CAN get jobs and that there aren't any obstacles in their way that white people also don't have. We know that if you are poor, it's harder to get an education and go to college, but it is possible and you can do it if you have the belief and determination to. Even without a college education, there are decent paying jobs that only require you to have graduated high-school.

It seems to me that the Democrat Party just want to keep black people in a cycle of misfortune and poverty so they keep voting for them, thinking there is no real way out of that cycle. If they are kept poor, they will vote for the party that professes a greater interest in giving them welfare, etc. The Democrats don't want black people to get out of this cycle because then they would realize that they have no use for the Democrat Party and they would move away from voting for them. Ideology aside, there is a reason why even moderately successful people tend to vote conservative.

Even with a basic lower middle-class income, or indeed any kind of income, black people in America are more likely to not vote Democrat.
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Tres13 · 51-55, M
Gave them a coloured President & a coloured female vp
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@Tres13 I think Obama was a way bigger feel good moment than Kamala Is.
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@Tres13 That doesn't mean shit. I am asking what they have DONE for black people, not whether two black people (out of all the black people in the U.S) have managed to get into those positions.
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@SW-User Does making someone FEEL good count ?
AthrillatheHunt · 51-55, M
@AthrillatheHunt I’m actually serious . I’d say Obama definitely helped lots of black peoples mental health just by being elected .
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@AthrillatheHunt =
I’m actually serious . I’d say Obama definitely helped lots of black peoples mental health just by being elected .

Mussolini knew that there would be a Black President =https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/5044590043/in/album-72157624428147638/ May 1934
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@AthrillatheHunt and proceeded to do everything to exacerbate racial tension from the get go. By the end cops were behind assassinated on the streets
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
and proceeded to do everything to exacerbate racial tension from the get go. By the end cops were behind assassinated to the street

Thanks for the daily joke!
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@Diotrephes Cops getting randomly gunned down is a joke to you?

Go play in traffic
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User The Slave Patrol has been killing Black people since the first slave stepped off of the first slave ship. But what is surprising, considering that people will kill someone for no reason whatsoever, is that there is hardly ever any retribution killings of the murdering Slave Patrollers who murdered a Black person and got off scot-free. You would think that given the number of such cases that there would be more retribution shootings. White guys are always doing retribution shootings in the movies.

Here's a case from 2018 where the Slave Patrol murdered an innocent Black man in a Chicago street = https://theintercept.com/2022/08/13/chicago-police-killing-bodycam-harith-augustus/

As of August 1, 2022, the U.S. police shot 631 people to death in 2022. In 2021, 1,055 people were shot to death by police in the United States.
As of August 1, 2022, the U.S. police shot 631 people to death in 2022. In 2021, 1,055 people were shot to death by police in the United States.

For instance, in 2021 Chicago 665 were murdered and 2,943 people were wounded by gunshots. So, it's not like bad actors are afraid to kill people but they seem to have no interest in killing any of the murdering Slave Patrollers. I think that is amazing.
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@SW-User That guy is a troll.

Not even bothering to read what he says.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
Not even bothering to read what he says.

so, you have nothing of value to add to the discussions.

Choose to be ignorant.
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@Diotrephes Why do you think I should respond to you when all post is complete trash?
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@SW-User Good move
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
Why do you think I should respond to you when all post is complete trash?

Well, it can be difficult to respond to historical facts if you are ignorant about American and world history but consider it as a real life classroom where you can learn new things. Who knows, maybe in a few years of constant discussion you will have learned all kinds of new things and be more proficient in holding intelligent discussions on a variety of topics. The choice is yours. We can continue our dialogue or we can simply block each other.

Choose wisely.
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@Diotrephes Why are you a Nazi?
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
Why are you a Nazi?

I am hardly a Nazi. I comment on historical facts and events. The Nazis got their bad habits from the Americans, who were far more racist than the most racist Nazi. That is a fact. The Nazis had the most integrated military force of all in WWII. America wouldn't let Black men fight and kill White Nazis who were trying to conquer the world. America would barely let any Black people work in military war factories to produce weapons to use against the Nazis. It wouldn't let Black people donate blood for wounded military personnel unless the blood was segregated. It wouldn't let Black nurses care for wounded White soldiers but assigned them to care for the Nazis. Some Nazis and Black women got married because they feel in love with each other. When Black soldiers were assigned to guard the Nazis in the Southern POW camps the local Whites treated the Nazis like best buddies and pissed in the face of Black American citizens who were guarding them. In England, white American soldiers were always attacking their fellow Black soldiers because they White English women liked to associate with the Black guys.

People tend to hate the Nazis because they focused more on attacking other Whites than Black and Brown people. If the Nazis had attacked Black and Brown people everything would have been cool. That's a fact.

Churchill was responsible for the deaths of millions of Asian Indians yet no one hardly ever mentioned it. King Leopold II of Belgium killed 10-12 million Black Africans in the Congo and chopped the arms off of countless others and no one whines about that. The Japanese slaughtered around 10 million people and no one is outraged about that. The U.S. and England loved to burn civilians alive in fire-bombing raids and no one whines about that.

The result is that no one was a good guy; they were all bastards.
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@Diotrephes You know, it's really not the fact that you're an antisemite and a total fucking loser that I find repellent about you...it's the way you routinely lie and spread disinformation in *every* post you make. You talk absolute shit while passing it off as serious or in some way representative of the "facts", and it's just unrelenting.

You're nothing more than a conspiracy theorist, and an excessively stupid one at that. If we're going to talk about knowing American history, you didn't even know that Jim Crow wasn't an actual man.

You are, or at least claim to be, a man in his seventies who is from the U.S and you had to rely on a 22 y/o girl from another country and background to tell you something as rudimentary as that.

So come on grandaddy, where's ya knowledge of history?

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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
You know, it's really not the fact that you're an antisemite and a total fucking loser that I find repellent about you...it's the way you routinely lie and spread disinformation in *every* post you make. You talk absolute shit while passing it off as serious or in some way representative of the "facts", and it's just unrelenting.

You're nothing more than a conspiracy theorist, and an excessively stupid one at that. If we're going to talk about knowing American history, you didn't even know that Jim Crow wasn't an actual man.

You are, or at least claim to be, a man in his seventies who is from the U.S and you had to rely on a 22 y/o girl from another country and background to tell you something as rudimentary as that.

So come on grandaddy, where's ya knowledge of history?

I base my opinions and biases on lots of things that you may not have experience with in your life. So, it's only natural that we see different aspects of a particular issue. When I can I provide historical documentation to support my opinions and biases. You reject them outright and never counter with any objective evidence to support your opinions and biases. That's fine. But you did learn one thing and that is that Jim Crow wasn't an actual man but a character in a minstrel show. The phrase "Jim Crow" refers to the system of apartheid laws in America that were in effect for about 100 years. The effects of those laws are still affecting all aspects of American culture this very minute although they are no longer on the books.

Speaking of being an anti-semite, do you reject the ethnocentric racist BS preached in the Jewish Babylonian Talmud? Even the Bible says that people shouldn't believe silly Jewish fairy tales but if you are a Jew then you don't believe in the New Testament. So, be sure to let me know when you are ready to renounce the ethnocentric racist BS in the Jewish Babylonian Talmud as well as all of the racist crap in the Bible and we might be able to have civil discussions. After several more years you might have gotten smart enough to present your views like an intelligent person. Are you game or will you pout?

Choose to take a risk.
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@Diotrephes
The phrase "Jim Crow" refers to the system of apartheid laws in America

Except you didn't know that, did you?
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@Diotrephes
So, be sure to let me know when you are ready to renounce the ethnocentric racist BS in the Jewish Babylonian Talmud as well as all of the racist crap in the Bible and we might be able to have civil discussions. After several more years you might have gotten smart enough to present your views like an intelligent person. Are you game or will you pout?

You clearly hate us, so why would I want to discuss this with you?

You're wrong on all of these matters but you simply aren't worth arguing with.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User Discussing issues with you is more hilarious than going to comedy clubs. Thank you so much for the laughs.
Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@SW-User
You clearly hate us, so why would I want to discuss this with you?

You're wrong on all of these matters but you simply aren't worth arguing with.

It's unfortunate that you won't renounce the Jewish Babylonian Talmud. IMO, it is completely disgusting but if you were raped as a three-year old the trauma might be too hard for you to acknowledge. After all, that is one thing that it says is acceptable for old buzzards to do to toddlers.