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<blockquote data-quote="Seymour Packages" data-source="post: 4368625" data-attributes="member: 79252">Let&#039;s unpack this piece by piece:Slaves were treated as property. Less than human, only until it was advantageous to treat them as full human beings or include them in population counts. In the case of the North, it was for their labor and then as part of the military to eventually whip the South into submission. Also in terms of population count so that the South maintained a power balance with the North in Congress. Look up the Three-Fifths compromise. In their purest forms, neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights were intended for Africans in America. Ever. Blood has always needed to be spilled for any lasting change to take place in America. The vote, labor unions, slavery, and civil rights all had a high cost in blood. The American power structure understands one thing very well: violence. Abroad and domestically,Americais a nation born of and sustained through violence. Footnote: Look up the Haitian Revolution. A rag tag group of &quot;blacks&quot; brutally ousted the French, Spanish, and U.S. forces from their island and created the first free &quot;Black&quot; republic in the Western world. Reparations are not coming. Why would America give an economic stimulus package to the very people it depends on for their prison and military industrial complexes? Are you nuts? Build yourself a business, own property, create wealth and pass it along. Going to be a long road, but it&#039;s not impossible. Blacks must save themselves.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Seymour Packages, post: 4368625, member: 79252"] Let's unpack this piece by piece: Slaves were treated as property. Less than human, only until it was advantageous to treat them as full human beings or include them in population counts. In the case of the North, it was for their labor and then as part of the military to eventually whip the South into submission. Also in terms of population count so that the South maintained a power balance with the North in Congress. Look up the Three-Fifths compromise. In their purest forms, neither the Constitution nor the Bill of Rights were intended for Africans in America. Ever. Blood has always needed to be spilled for any lasting change to take place in America. The vote, labor unions, slavery, and civil rights all had a high cost in blood. The American power structure understands one thing very well: violence. Abroad and domestically,Americais a nation born of and sustained through violence. Footnote: Look up the Haitian Revolution. A rag tag group of "blacks" brutally ousted the French, Spanish, and U.S. forces from their island and created the first free "Black" republic in the Western world. Reparations are not coming. Why would America give an economic stimulus package to the very people it depends on for their prison and military industrial complexes? Are you nuts? Build yourself a business, own property, create wealth and pass it along. Going to be a long road, but it's not impossible. Blacks must save themselves. [/QUOTE]

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