[rockdoc123]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rior to that (prior to, say 1750), I don't know what life was like for black people worldwide (it might have sucked then too, I just don't know).

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rockdoc123', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')rior to that (prior to, say 1750), I don't know what life was like for black people worldwide (it might have sucked then too, I just don't know).

[Ayoob]

American blacks fared better under segregation. They owned local businesses and didn't have to compete with white businesses. They were more successful and had a sense of community that's gone today.

My experience with black people over the last couple of years is that blacks treat each other preferentially, so do whites, and it's ten times that much for asians and jews.

This melting pot thing doesn't work very well. I wish we could just break off a chunk of the US for the blacks and give them their own country to do with as they please. Black cops, judges, jails, and criminals. No more whitey holding them down. Black banks, businesses, manufacturing, shipping, farming, and fishing. Whatever they make for themselves they keep.

Why is that so bad?

I would 1000% prefer to live in an all-white area. Los Angeles completely cured me of any desire to live in a mixed area. It just sucks.

And apparently we need to give the Southwest to Mexico, just surrender the territory and pull back North. There is enormous resentment against the new colonists... and we just don't need to add to our population here in the US. Heading into a dieoff and you want to increase our population? Beyond stupid.

[big_rc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('BigTex', 'I')ndustrialization and the fossil fuel era have not been kind to black people, though the last 50 years have been better.

Prior to that (prior to, say 1750), I don't know what life was like for black people worldwide (it might have sucked then too, I just don't know).

[big_rc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'A')merican blacks fared better under segregation. They owned local businesses and didn't have to compete with white businesses. They were more successful and had a sense of community that's gone today.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('big_rc', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'A')merican blacks fared better under segregation. They owned local businesses and didn't have to compete with white businesses. They were more successful and had a sense of community that's gone today.

[Ayoob]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('big_rc', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', 'A')merican blacks fared better under segregation. They owned local businesses and didn't have to compete with white businesses. They were more successful and had a sense of community that's gone today.

[big_rc]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', '
')I probably know more black people than you do, bud. I've worked in black neighborhoods, in daily and very intimate contact with black people for very long shifts. You'd be amazed. There's plenty of nice black people, and I've spent time in the most successful black neighborhood in North America. Ladera Heights. It's pretty nice! I'm not exactly welcome there, but my presence is tolerated while I work.

I'm not one of those people that feels the way I do out of ignorance. It's out of experience.

We may be stuck with each other... but you know the truth. White people without black people is Europe, black people without white people is Africa.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ayoob', '
')Why don't you sell us all on the benefits that black people bring to a community of non-blacks?

[seldom_seen]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('big_rc', 'A')t any rate, this my man is America not Europe, not Africa. We are in this big mess of a country together. We are going to have to make it together and come through this Peak Oil thing together. Black people and white people in this country are intertwined in way it would be impossible to untangle now. There is no turning back. We can only go forward.

[Ayoob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikynTH9oJg8&NR=1

[socrates1fan]

Utterly no offense.
I am European-descent and I am lower class and live in a lower class older neighborhood almost completely occupied by lower class Europeans.
Regardless of our ethnicity we Americans and need to work together to solve this crisis and remove racism on all sides so that we have the chance to progress.

[Farknight]

IMHO all humans will suffer from an actual collapse of civilization. The melanin content of ones dermal cells to the contrary, this is a problem on a human scale. The social-economic BS that has permitted human segregation based on skin is basically nothing more than tribalism. Tribes have always competed for limited resources and distrusted all other tribes, race was unimportant until relatively recently in modern human history. And as was pointed out earlier, we are all Africans as that is where all humans originated.

Famine, violence, pain and suffering will affect all without mercy if TSHTF in a big way, be certain of this fact. From what I have seen, read and studied of human history we are collectively a violent predatory specifies the strives for personal survival at all costs. This biological imperative virtually guarantees suffering. My hope is that a small portion of humanity, the enlightened few, will move beyond the mess to form a resilient new civilization in harmony with each other and the earth. Wishful thinking I know but one can dream

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd as was pointed out earlier, we are all Africans as that is where all humans originated.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'G')reat civilizations sprouted very quickly and not by evolution of millions-of-years. Something else has been at play. Ideas?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')nce agriculture was developed, the behaviors and memes of civilization fed into each other very quickly, encouraging, supporting, and building complexity.

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')
How did they cut and move into place stones as large as 12'x14'x62' 6,000 years ago.

[Pretorian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kingcoal', 'B')lack people have survived for longer than white people; after all, whites are descended from blacks who left Africa to populate the world.

[Alcassin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')I disagree. Well maybe the earliest humanoids "types" came from Africa, but not civilized man. Great civilizations sprouted very quickly and not by evolution of millions-of-years. Something else has been at play. Ideas?

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alcassin', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '
')I disagree. Well maybe the earliest humanoids "types" came from Africa, but not civilized man. Great civilizations sprouted very quickly and not by evolution of millions-of-years. Something else has been at play. Ideas?