How are blacks treated in the UK?

[Wayne]

Well buddy I know bad things still happen to ALL kinds of people because of racism. I just want people to realize that racism, bigotry, etc is not strictly confined to the Southeastern United States.

People wrongly think that because of the Civil War and the segregation in the South that racism is only here.....well if people taught history a bit better they would realize segregation was in a number of places outside the South and the Civil War was fought because of the economy and not slavery. Slavery was used as a rallying cry by Lincoln to gain support for the Union and grow the Union forces. Sorry if anyone has been taught otherwise but it's the truth.


There are a ton of racists in the north but noooooobody will admit it

Nail on the head, Lyle. The biggest difference between racists in the North and racists in the South is the northern ones do it behind your back.

And the Civil War was about economy but slavery was a BIG tie-in to what made the southern economy run. A lot of northerners thought it was unfair that the South essentially had free labor and they butted heads over new states coming into the union being allowed to adopt slavery as a practice. If anything, Lincoln was indifferent about slavery, he wasn't pro-negro despite textbooks painting him as the Great Emancipator. Many of the advances blacks got was because northerners were busy trying to stick it to the South. If they South had been allowed to secede their economy would have failed and they would have come crawling back to join up. I'm kidding, I have no idea about that one, but I heard it said.

[Master]

Interesting reading over the three pages.

Religion was used to justify slavery through racist ideas of separate races when in fact it was purely economics that was the reason why it was justified.

Africa as well as some of the other countries like India could have been far more prosperous than they are now (Note I said could), had they not been stripped of their resources and wealth.

I do not believe that we are all inherently racist, I believe if you interact with various groups of people from different backgrounds then your perspective will broaden and more likely to be understanding.

I also believe that an individual is always responsible for their actions and it is they that should be held accountable for them. Some people face more holes in the ground that they have to jump over in their life than others do but it is always their responsibility not to fall in them.

However, I like the poster that said “we have come a long way but we are not all the way yet”.