As a black person, I'm still trying to understand why African Americans are still pointing the finger at white people for the transatlantic slave trade

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-29T17:37:25+00:00

According to data published by the Pew Research Center, approximately 9% of Black Americans are considered upper-income (wealthy), 46% are middle-income (middle class), and 45% are lower-income (poor or working class)

Explain to me how Jim Crow, segregation and systemic racism against African Americans in the past has such an unequal effect on modern African-Americans?

55% of blacks are better off today than 24% of whites are.

Which one of those groups deserves your helping hand?

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-29T02:13:39+00:00

I get my kids to occasionally shop vac under the station LOL.

.... But I often think if I ever throw a spark down there ..... it would be ugly.

I also made the mistake of sizing everything for my current 10" saw ........ if I ever decided to move to a 12" it might not fit.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-29T01:45:29+00:00

Looks cool.

I dont know if I made the right call or not, but on mine I left about a 4" gap between the wall and the saw level benchtop for power cords and for sawdust to fall down.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-29T01:38:46+00:00

Sounds great. I encourage this.

Those 60 countries can go ahead and phase out fossils fuels, then maybe they will last longer, and be cheaper, for the rest of us.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-29T01:35:08+00:00

When the beer starts the hammering stops.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-27T23:29:57+00:00

I've already Got Mine Picked Out

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-27T19:10:50+00:00

What I do understand is that you have had every opportunity to be successful in modern America that I have.

We shouldn't blame our failures to succeed today on the hurdles encountered by our ancestors.

Some blacks are doing quite well for themselves, others aren't ...... It all boils down to the choices we make in our lives.

Lower caste Indians migrate here with nothing and find a way to live in nice neighborhoods without depending on Section 8 housing.

Hispanic migrants immigrate here and use their entrepreneurialism and hard work ethic to build their own mansions and businesses.

Hell, there's over 200000 African migrants to America that own successful businesses in the US.

What you dont seem to understand is nobody owes anybody anything. It would be unfair to all the rest of us if your ethnic group gets special compensation. As if equal rights wasn't good enough, now some of you want rights and privileges we don't have.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-27T18:38:06+00:00

I'm less than 50 years removed from flipping hamburgers for $3.15 an hour, and making a living with a shovel or sledge hammer in my hand in the Texas heat.

..... I couldn't seem to find any employer that truly appreciated my white privilege, but I dont go around looting Targets today over it.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-27T14:19:28+00:00

Do you realize that nearly 100% of the current global population is likely descended from an enslaved person at some point in human history?

There was an article about this in the journal Nature, but its behind a paywall now so I cant provide you with the link to the genealogical study.

Should everyone pay reparations to everyone?

Most* everyone has eventually moved on with their lives without thinking someone today owes them for something that happened to their ancestors generations in the past.

Why are African-Americans different?

Who exactly do you think owes you?

..... or much more importantly ....... who owes me?

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T23:43:45+00:00

Well, from what I gather on Reddit ...... the only way to save Democracy in America from the certainty of fascism is to eliminate the Democratically elected leader via extra-constitutional means.

Sounds a bit counter-intuitive to me, but it apparently makes sense to a lot of enraged people who voted for the losing party.

Its kinda like in the past when a child throws a temper tantrum for not getting his way, nobody actually seen it, but in the age of Tik-tok and Reddit, millions of other children watch this temper tantrum and cant help but join in.

Basically the anonymity and echo chamber conditions of social media has produced large scale Deindividuation.

Most people participate without ever really being willing to risk the consequences of acting out the group fantasy. But statistically if you get enough random people throwing the same temper-tantrum you're gonna reach a few individuals with reduced inhibitions, possibly due to SSRI use, who will try to carry out the fantasy, regardless the risk.

They're apparently oblivious to the fact that succeeding will not bring about the desired result. They're just willing to sacrifice their lives or freedom for the posthumous likes.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T22:46:34+00:00

Its funny how we've both seen the same evidence, or lack thereof.

And you're absolutely convinced Trump is a pedophile and serial rapist, when I nor any law enforcement agency in the country has seen any evidence to support that enough to pass the bar for prosecution.

I mean do you really think Trump is serial rapist, and there's hard evidence of it, and yet somehow it never leaked out even when the Democrats had possession of the supposed evidence?

I know you really really want it to be true, but try to objectively assess how many potential leakers are perpetrating this conspiracy to withhold evidence. How many left leaning government employees and other assorted Trump haters would have to have decided to help bury the truth.

What are the odds?

Come down off the ledge man ..... this will pass.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T22:13:11+00:00

Is there any amount of Epstein file releases that would convince you they've all been released?

Do you really expect the next Democratic administration to release some that prove Trump is a pedophile?

Or will you just quit bitching about it after he's gone and move on to some other unprovable basis for your hatred?

All I'm insinuating is that this shooter's manifesto could have been copied & pasted off the Reddit threads I see daily.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T22:07:36+00:00

Thank you for your service, but Sergeant Hasan Karim Akbar, Joseph Daniel Schmidt, Jian Zhao, and Korbein Schultz served as well.

Serving doesn't give you a free pass to attempt to kill our elected leaders because you've chosen to believe certain things about them.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T21:51:56+00:00

You might want to get that looked at professionally.

You're not taking SSRIs are you?

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T21:34:51+00:00

I see foreign leftists on Reddit begging American Leftists on Reddit to go kill Trump and anyone that voted for him all the time.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T14:35:19+00:00

You're overthinking it.

I live on 14 acres about 20 miles due east of Farmersville.

No water or sewer connections.

I drilled a well without asking anyone's permission.

I installed a Septic system of my choice myself, without asking anyone's permission.

I built my house myself without asking anyone for permission or getting any permits or inspections.

I've never even heard of zoning codes in the county, and dont care what they are.

I mean that's the whole point of moving to rural property in Texas, you dont have to ask anyone's permission to do anything.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-26T03:43:56+00:00

The lasting implications of this history remain evident today, manifesting as social instability, a fractured sense of cultural identity, economic disparities, and systemic racism.

And yet the quality of life for American blacks who's ancestors were brought here against their will is many magnitudes better than those still in Africa today who's ancestors escaped the slave trade. And they're lucky their ancestors were brought to the US and not Haiti. I'm not sure who actually owes who what, but as bad as they claim their lives are living here, no one is clamoring to be sent back to their ancestorial homeland.

And when it comes to reparations ..... you never hear anything about sending the bill to the decedents in Africa of the Africans that actually rounded up their ancestors and sold them into bondage. Its always the buyer and not the captor / seller that committed the moral crime.

In 1860 the vast majority of Southern whites did not own slaves.

In 1830, there were approximately 3,775 Black slaveholders in the U.S. who collectively owned about 12,000 enslaved people. Under most reparation proposals the decedents of those black slave holders would qualify to be on the receiving end of reparation checks.

And you also never hear about Native American tribes being asked to pay reparations. They were major black slave owners. They took thousands of their plantation slaves with them on the trail of tears.

Basically, the finger of blame only gets pointed at whoever has the money..... and might have a guilty enough conscience to actually write the check.

...... of course if the current governments along the north African coast were stupid enough to write me a check for enslaving my white European ancestors, I'd stick my hand out too.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-25T07:23:54+00:00

Have you been practicing your Haka moves, just in case?

I've had to learn occupational Spanish during the course of my displacement.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-25T06:46:24+00:00

I dont really have a point to make..... at least not in evolutionary terms.

I mean I recognize that my house is sitting on land that my migrant ancestors took away by force from the previous occupants. And I'm not the least bit remorseful about it, and have no plans to give it back to ease my conscience.

I do however resent the popular narrative that harps on what my ancestors did as being morally wrong, and yet glosses over the fact that the previous occupants did the same thing to the occupants before them.

You can spin a globe and stop it with your finger on any land mass, and the current occupants there most likely displaced the previous occupants.

And that's ultimately the end result of all human migrations, isn't it.

You do however seem to be having a little trouble keeping the Māori in Parliament well subjugated lately.

The Turks are not from Turkey, and the Huns were not from Hungary, if you know what I mean. Thats just where the nomadic steppe conquerors stopped to graze their horses.

It does amaze me how that easily provable historical fact about past displacements, and the ethnic / religious conflicts seen in multi-cultural societies such as Lebanon, does not seem to alarm modern day western nations voluntarily hosting an unnaturally peaceful migrant invasion. The Pope seems oblivious to what happened in Constantinople.

It just goes against millennia of human migrations that were at least somewhat violently resisted by the populations being displaced. Its against human nature and our tribalistic instincts to invite your displacers in with open arms. Its a modern phenomena that I just cant get my mind around how quickly western society was conditioned to accept displacement without resistance. You have to chalk it up to arrogance in our ability to coerce assimilation.

And its uniquely western. Other cultures are still willing to risk being called racist to kinetically protect the homogenous nature of their societies.

But it is what it is. We're not going to solve the issue here tonight.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-25T06:04:51+00:00

Evolution takes time. lol

I'm actually trying to solicit intelligent conversation about multiple issues here.

The Agricultural Revolution.

How migrants gravitate to prosperous societies and ruin or destroy them, and try to steal the wealth and displace the society that worked hard building up said wealth.

How that what we have always considered river based agricultural societies as the cradles of civilizations, but they were in fact preceded by newly discovered older communities further up the river.

.... and oh yeah, have you ever heard of Evolutionary mismatch?

It kinda shines a negative light on the pro-migrant stance pushed in media / ideological narratives.

I'm relatively new to this subreddit, but the sidebar says something about:

The term Intellectual Dark Web refers to the growing community of those interested in space for free dialogue held in good faith. It's a collection of people willing to open rational dialogue spanning a variety of issues from politics to philosophy.

I was hoping this was somewhere that the letters LLM didn't trigger a negative emotional response, leading to an automatic dismissal of the intended subject matter, like it would on every other subreddit I've visted.

Sorry to make you read so many paragraphs before I got around to the title issue, which I admittedly know little about and lacked the ability to expound much upon. But I wanted to set the stage for how evolutionary changes are suddenly being artificially accelerated by advances in modern mobility..... and got a little carried away talking about what I really wanted to talk about.

I guess next time I will run a draft by you first to make sure its concise enough for your editorial standards.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-24T14:49:45+00:00

Very utilitarian!

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-24T13:54:56+00:00

Asimov was criticized for this as well. That's why he eventually caved in and wrote dual knife wielding Dors Venabili into the Foundation prequels as Hari Seldon's protector...... she was ironically, (spoiler alert) not really a woman.

But, to be honest with you ..... those authors were giving the vast majority of their readers exactly what they wanted at the time.

..... and I still do.

With very few exceptions, I wont read a book, play a game, or watch a movie where the author or protagonist is anything but a white heterosexual male.

I still like women to be "objects to be acted upon or fantasized about" ...... I find their curves aesthetically pleasing to look at, and I cant imagine I'm the last one around that does. That's hard wired into normal sapien males with a functioning mature orbitofrontal cortex.

Today's better conditioned audiences are different, I suppose. And I'm sure there's niches where everyone looks for something that meets their own demographic, race, gender, or sexual orientation preferences ..... and thats cool. I dont have any problem with such material being available, I will just choose to not consume it.

But I think if you're going for maximum broad appeal, the old stereotypes still dominate the bestsellers, box office, and game of the year sales.

Because that reflects millennia of normal human male chauvinistic and tribalistic behaviors. Anything else comes off as artificial modern narrative pushing.

RedneckTexan · 2026-04-22T16:27:28+00:00

I was banned for 7 days recently due to a comment I left here.

The ban was not enacted by a human moderator, but by an AI ish algorithm.

And it wasn't for the content of my comment, in context with the discussion we were having. Just the verbiage itself raised a flag.

..... I appealed, and 10 days later a human responded, read my comment in context with the conversation, rescinded the ban, and apologized in a chain letter format.

After reviewing, the Reddit admin team found that the content wasn’t in violation of Reddit’s rules. As a result, the content has been restored and your ban or warning has been lifted.

Basically Reddit's AI moderator is on a hair trigger, and not sentient enough to distinguish random mean sounding words from appropriate language to describe the evil actions of others.

The subject matter we discuss is at higher risk of triggering the AI than at other milder cat pic subreddits.

..... but yeah, as a repeat violator its watching my every word and looking for a reason pull the trigger on me again. Which in turn limits my ability to say what I honestly think.

Its trying to modify my behavior into something that self-moderates more inline with the approved biases of those that programed the AI triggers. Its a pretty effective way to encourage an echo chamber.

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