And Native-Americans (of which Mr. Zimmerman clearly is part) WERE enslaved. As late as the 1730s nearly a third of all the slaves in the colonies were indigenous folks, and the only reason that that stopped was because native-Americans weren't able to contend with European diseases. wd - ignorant yet again.
As someone with close Kenyan ancestry, there is a good chance that Obama has ancestors who were victimized by the slave trade. However, in this part of the world, the perpetrators were all Black Africans, or Arabian Muslims
Something that he might have a bone to pick, if at all, with the Muslim nations, and certainly not with the US, which was entirely uninvolved with this.
As for the idiot, wd, when I underscored here that to refer to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic" is identical to calling Obama a "white African-American", he protested. "It isn't the same with Hispanics (seemingly endorsing the crazy-assed concept) , he muttered (inarticulately, of course)". "They were never slaves." Of course, when I informed the imbecile that a) Zimmerman is 1/8th black himself, b) that he is 3/8th Peruvian (predominantly Native-American), and c) that Native-Americans had also suffered via slavery, he did what he always do (apologies to Allen Iverson), and lashed out incoherently. Damn, he'll never change.
if WD said that, he really is an idiot. Everyone's ancestors are slaves. In looking up the Arab slave trade last night, I found references to slaves being taken from Northern Europe. The word itself comes from Slav.... a very large Eastern European and WHITE ethnic group also commonly enslaved.
The writer calls Saddam Hussein brown, and George Zimmerman a "white man". The irony of presenting Zimmerman's very ethnic, non-white-looking photo in own post is lost on him.
The blog writer usually speaks on Indian issues.... often involving those with less Indian blood than Zimmerman. But here, Zimmerman's Nativeness is totally ignored.
This post needs a good blast of common sense, and not just from me.
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He's the face of white privilege. According to Time Magazine, anyway.
The uncle has LESS Caucasian DNA than Obama does.
Time - boy, has that magazine ever hit the skids.
Why do liberals hate Hispanics?
And Native-Americans (of which Mr. Zimmerman clearly is part) WERE enslaved. As late as the 1730s nearly a third of all the slaves in the colonies were indigenous folks, and the only reason that that stopped was because native-Americans weren't able to contend with European diseases. wd - ignorant yet again.
".And Obama's family never experienced slavery "
As someone with close Kenyan ancestry, there is a good chance that Obama has ancestors who were victimized by the slave trade. However, in this part of the world, the perpetrators were all Black Africans, or Arabian Muslims
Something that he might have a bone to pick, if at all, with the Muslim nations, and certainly not with the US, which was entirely uninvolved with this.
That's a good point and one that Thomas Sowell brings up in several of his books.
As for the idiot, wd, when I underscored here that to refer to Zimmerman as a "white Hispanic" is identical to calling Obama a "white African-American", he protested. "It isn't the same with Hispanics (seemingly endorsing the crazy-assed concept) , he muttered (inarticulately, of course)". "They were never slaves." Of course, when I informed the imbecile that a) Zimmerman is 1/8th black himself, b) that he is 3/8th Peruvian (predominantly Native-American), and c) that Native-Americans had also suffered via slavery, he did what he always do (apologies to Allen Iverson), and lashed out incoherently. Damn, he'll never change.
if WD said that, he really is an idiot. Everyone's ancestors are slaves. In looking up the Arab slave trade last night, I found references to slaves being taken from Northern Europe. The word itself comes from Slav.... a very large Eastern European and WHITE ethnic group also commonly enslaved.
Check this post out:
http://newspaperrock.bluecorncomics.com/2013/07/zimmerman-acquitted-of-trayvons-murder.html
The writer calls Saddam Hussein brown, and George Zimmerman a "white man". The irony of presenting Zimmerman's very ethnic, non-white-looking photo in own post is lost on him.
The blog writer usually speaks on Indian issues.... often involving those with less Indian blood than Zimmerman. But here, Zimmerman's Nativeness is totally ignored.
This post needs a good blast of common sense, and not just from me.
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