Comments by "Jake Johnson" (@ElectronFieldPulse) on "Iraqi Living In USA - His Thoughts About America 🇺🇸🇮🇶" video.
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 @bootnazz1786 - Slaves were responsible for a small part of the overall economy, even by 1860. That is why the North rolled them so easy. Yes, slaves earned a lot of money for some rich plantation owners, but they in no way were responsible for the majority of wealth in the US. It was a small minority. This isn't disputed, it is factual and objective.
As far my ethnicity goes, I am American. Half German and half Swedish, even did a DNA test. I am quite proud to be American of European descent, thanks. The reparations paid to the Japanese were for people who were still alive and were effected by it. That is far different from giving the great great great grandson of a slave a lot of money. Furthermore, your demographic uses programs like SNAP and other programs at a hugely disproportionate rate. You get the most money from the government by proportion by far. And there has been billions of dollars spent on the black community. The Community Reinvestment Act was a big one. Johnson's "war on poverty" was another one. You get affirmative action in school AND jobs. The government just gave black farmers way, way more money than white farmers. The list goes on and on dude. This idea that white people have done nothing for you is ridiculous. It is your vitimhood mentality which is holding you back. You think your biggest problem is where people, when in reality, you are the wealthiest diaspora by far. Your people back in the homeland make nothing compared to you. But you never, ever look at positives. You only cry about things and demand that white people give you money or special treatment. How has that worked for you? Oh, that's right, we are more divided than ever because you quite literally cannot talk about ANYTHING without inserting race and making yourself out to be the victim. It is like a guilty child's mentality. It is sad honestly, I hope you guys can do some self reflection and improve your community for the future. It just guys reallllllly tiring hearing it all the time. Notice how there was no riot after the Memphis killing of an unarmed black man, just because all the cops were black? If they would have been white, riots all over the country would have broken out. That shows that your people are purposefully causing destruction, death, and strife just because you don't like white people. Where was that energy for Memphis? Now all of the sudden you want to be peaceful and reasonable? God, your culture has so many problems, it is sad.
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 @bootnazz1786 - Uh, that was certainly a response. First of all, the US wasn't built on the backs of slaves. In fact, it is now understood that slavery held the Southern economy back compared to the North, which is why the Confederates had no chance to match the industrial output of the North. The main use of slaves in the South was for things like cash crops. Sure, you created some wealth, no denying that. Your ancestors were wronged, no denying that. But you really didn't build America. The far more rich and powerful half of the US was built by low paid European immigrants. In the South, people usually built their own homes. Most people didn't have a slave to help with that. So, it isn't like the US would be any different had we not brought you over. Well, at least we would still be as successful. Probably more successful because we would have far less ethnic strife in the country, our violence rates would be more in line with Europe, and we could stop using so many resources on welfare and prisons.
I hope the black community does well in the future, but their current strategy is doomed to fail. Trying to make everything about race, trying to guilt trip white people into giving you things... That just isn't a winning strategy long term. Black people will have to look at their own culture and process all the bad decisions they have made so they can make better decisions in the future. We aren't responsible for your prosperity, you are. I think a lot of black people think white people owe them something, but I owe you nothing. And your community will stay stuck where it is if you don't start doing some honest introspection instead of trying to blame whitey all the time.
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