Black Slavery in America
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Haha. I love your posts, you're by far the most entertaining and witty user we have on these forums.
Italians were only allowed too get jobs in construction, they are the blame for all concrete and asphalt in Toronto. You don't hear them complaining!
If you were Italian in the 50s, you could get arrested or in shit with the cops for walking on the 'wrong side of the street'. My dad was called a 'DP'. They did face discrimination, but worse was during the war where many were put into internment camps like the Japanese. Some Who's Who of Canada members changed their names from those earlier times, even though they have built this city and contributed immensely to the community (I know of some that were even in the Canadian forces during WWII).
Nothing like slavery though and what I saw in Django myself on Friday was pretty bad. The movie though had its amusing moments and characters.
LOL. Sure they didn't. May not be well documented or widespread (e.g. the climate to grow sugar and cotton is not present here), but it happened. Not to mention, the French were more dominant here first, and their intentions were trade; not settlement like the British.
But one can argue that the benfits reaped from slavery are still enjoyed by the ancestors. If they were never made 'even' back then it makes sense that the divide still exists.
Thank you. But a sense of modesty requires me to inform you that many posters provide me with excellent material and opportunity with their "amazing" posts
.... sometimes it's just like.............
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Comparing a couple of decades of hardship Italian/European immigrants faced is nothing like centuries of slavery and the following hardships faced by blacks. What you're talking about is the difficulties faced by a peoples who 'only' arrived here in the past 62 years on their own will, and comparing it to people who were brought here in chains and treated like livestock for hundreds of years.
My Grandfather had too change his name to an Aglo sounding one, my father wore nice suits eveybody called him Don or Mifiosa because he was lucky enough too work in a office.
- fixed the spelling of Mafiosa
My older cousin was born in Italy. He said he got into fights all the time. He thought he was treated worse than visible minorities are today, but like others have said, nowhere compared to black slaves in the U.S. of course.
A little further down the page than just the title, we have this;
Webb's reporting on the CIA's dealings with cocaine dealers was not without its critics. The Nationmagazine contributor David Corn, while crediting him that "it is only because of Webb that US citizens have confirmation from the CIA that it partnered up with suspected drug traffickers in the just-say-no years and that the Reagan Administration, consumed with a desire to overthrow the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, allied itself with drug thugs," also criticized Webb for overstating the case and for not proving "his more cinematic allegations."[SUP][14][/SUP]
Reason magazine's Glenn Garvin was critical of Webb's sources and of the evidence he presented. Garvin wrote that Webb's evidence that the Contra leadership was selling cocaine is almost entirely drawn from the claims of a few Nicaraguan traffickers facing long jail terms, and argued that they were using the CIA as a convenient scapegoat. Garvin also wrote that every guerilla group, including theMujahideen, FARC and Shining Path, has used the narcotics trade as a way of bolstering its funding efforts, and that far from the Contra-related drug trade being widespread it came down to a small handful of Contra pilots and their associates who were involved in narcotics. He also argued that while these covert narcotic relationships were alleged to be most rampant, the Contras had the least need for funds, as the United States was supplying them with millions of dollars a year in support.[SUP][15][/SUP]
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The blacks really had it bad. I bet what was shown in Tarantino's movie insofar as the treatment of blacks wasn't far off if not precise. Samual L. Jackson was superb as a butler who sucked up to his white master, even if it meant at the expense of other blacks. Whether Django's character was real or not, is another issue, but it felt good when he sought revenge on those rednecks (similar to Jews getting Nazi's in Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards). I loved the character of the bounty hunter/dentist lol.
If you paid attention at all you'd know I'm on the frint line of dumping on the way the governments and few nimrods on TERB treat the native Canadians, but then you've never been the sharpest tool in the TERB shed.
We are winning, Russia, US and then ........
I for one think your ass burgers tale is BS.
No one is claiming you hide behind it. Just that 's it's BS.
Don't you worry you pin head about us. We don't cocoon in the winter.
