Observing Martin Luther King Day Locally

SomethingGood wrote:

I am black, native and german.... I live near Detroit... You seem interesting....

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Tony17 wrote:

<quoted text>The Lord must surely look out for old folks and FOOLS. Especially the fool that authored the above post. Comparing Black slavery to Mexicans making 5.15 an hour. Imagine how many Black slaves could have purchased their own freedom if they had been paid 5.15 and hour by their slave masters. You sir/maam, are a first class idiot.

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Atlanta traveler wrote:

<quoted text>Slaves weren't paid anything in wages but could earn money for extra work either for their owner or working for others. This was fairly common. It was a well managed plantation that kept its slaves busy all the time. More frequently there was lots of lax time during the winter season or other bad weather and ample time to do extra work. Skilled slaves such as harness makers could earn enough money to buy their own freedom and maybe even that of their families. There was an article in the Atlanta Constitution newspaper last week about a 1937 Spelman College grad. Her grandfather had been a slave. A skilled shoemaker, he made enough money to send all of his children to college. Atlanta had a sizable and prosperous free black population before the Civil War. Like the population in general, they suffered economic deprivation from the war devastation.

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Tony17 wrote:

<quoted text>And a lotof times whn these skilled Black slaves took jobs that the poor white trash were not qualified to do, the PWT wopuld accuse the Blacks of taking away Jobs from him. But on the othe rhand if the Blacks were un-employed the White men would call him lazy. Blacks couldn't win one way or the other when dealing with this abomination called a RACIST WHITE MAN.

SomethingGood wrote:

I am black, native and german.... I live near Detroit... You seem interesting....

PSYCHED wrote:

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Ooooooh, I'm telling.;-)lolololol

Tony17 wrote:

Atlanta Traveler, I get the sense that you think I am TONY. I am Tony17. There is another poster here that goes by the moniker of Tony only. I am Tony17.

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Heather Clanton wrote:

i don't think that it's fair that black people has a holiday to celebrate the way they do. why don't white people or hispanics or any other race have a special holiday? i seen a group of black people marching down the street yesterday and if white people were to do that, it would be hollered that it was racist and then it would be banned! we don't owe the black people ANYTHING! it's NOT our fault that they were slaves! it's black people's fault bc a black man sold them into slavery. it's just our fault that they were set free!

Heather Clanton wrote:

i don't think that it's fair that black people has a holiday to celebrate the way they do. why don't white people or hispanics or any other race have a special holiday? i seen a group of black people marching down the street yesterday and if white people were to do that, it would be hollered that it was racist and then it would be banned! we don't owe the black people ANYTHING! it's NOT our fault that they were slaves! it's black people's fault bc a black man sold them into slavery. it's just our fault that they were set free!