04-20-2010, 05:05 PM
Ok, so the reason this is classified as a Non-Rant is because I'm not sure exactly how angry I am about this.
Not the issue that slavery existed, because that's over, done with, fixed, whatever. My issue is with one particular TV show.
I don't know what it was called, but basically it was about this guy, some millionaire football with a supermodel wife and two kids. You know, living the dream. Well, it wasn't about him living the dream, it was about him tracing his roots back as far as he could.
What's the big deal? Well, ok, due to slavery in the States, it's hard to trace African American family trees back much further than whenever slavery was abolished. Why? Because families were often split up due to selling, and that white "masters" would have children with their black maids so they could eventually have more servants. I get that, yeah, it wasn't nice. But here's some food for thought:
The guy, basically traced his family tree back something insane like 6 generations using records kept in those strange ancient libraries you never see in real life. He found out that both sides of his family tree originated from somewhere in Nigeria. He was really choked up because of how true he is to "his people" because he was 85% Nigerian (which is a VERY high percentage) meaning that he only had like 1 non-Nigerian person in his family tree ever.
He kept crying about how it was so sad that his people were forced out of Nigeria into slavery where they were forced to work on farms and eventually had their bloodline mixed with non-Nigerians, and he was sad that it was impossible to trace his family tree back to actual people on the boat.
WTF
Are all "born in the USA for 7 generations" African Americans like this? WTF My "bloodline" is always 1 generation away from the person on the boat. You think I can trace my freaking lineage back further than you? Hell no, records like that didn't exist in Yugoslavia, you're lucky that your "people" ended up in a country that has luxury items like "food" and "water".
Nigerian life expectancy is 46 years.
20% of children don't make it to age 5.
Why? Because Nigeria is freaking retarded.
It is HORRIBLE to live in Nigeria.
In the USA, in order for you to live in poverty, you have to literally RUN from everything, avoiding welfare and social services. In Canada, to live in poverty you literally have to exile yourself to the Yukon, and kill any people trying to give you aid with your bare fists.
In Nigeria, to live in poverty you just have to be born. Hopefully you'll make it to age 5, that way you can help your family irk out some fetid water from some kind of abandoned farm equipment.
The people who don't die of starvation (mostly women and children) often get killed by bandits and other retards who drive around shooting people and cutting throats to make sure their nation never crawls out of the death spiral. If you're a bandit you're lucky, oh wait, no you're not, because your peers kill each other all day long, and you're a member of "each other".
So, if I was the millionaire football player with the supermodel wife and two healthy kids living in America as a result of my ancestors getting "stolen" from a death-trap, would I really be all choked up because I couldn't trace my ancestry back further than 6 generations? Hell no.
Some of my ancestors were forced into mandatory unpaid labor in Europe during the various wars. Some of the women in my family struggled to keep their family together during those times. Am I teary eyed about that? No, I'm glad I wasn't born in some Slavic nation like my ancestors were. It sucks there, I can easily admit that. The roads were, and still are, paved with poop. They share a "town bicycle". Screw that.
So, WTF is wrong with Mr Perfect-Life-Whiny-Bastard? Is he not glad that his family survived? Why is he pining for his lost chance at being Nigerian?
As far as I see it, anybody still whining about this crap needs to shut up.
Obviously, historical investigation is not whining.
Memorial making, is not whining.
I know whining when I see it, and MrFootball man is a whiner who needs to take a chip off of his shoulder. Seriously.
Imagine if the slave trade never happened.
What would be different?
Well, for one, a whole pile of Nigerians would have died around age 46 instead of raising healthy families in the Americas.
Not the issue that slavery existed, because that's over, done with, fixed, whatever. My issue is with one particular TV show.
I don't know what it was called, but basically it was about this guy, some millionaire football with a supermodel wife and two kids. You know, living the dream. Well, it wasn't about him living the dream, it was about him tracing his roots back as far as he could.
What's the big deal? Well, ok, due to slavery in the States, it's hard to trace African American family trees back much further than whenever slavery was abolished. Why? Because families were often split up due to selling, and that white "masters" would have children with their black maids so they could eventually have more servants. I get that, yeah, it wasn't nice. But here's some food for thought:
The guy, basically traced his family tree back something insane like 6 generations using records kept in those strange ancient libraries you never see in real life. He found out that both sides of his family tree originated from somewhere in Nigeria. He was really choked up because of how true he is to "his people" because he was 85% Nigerian (which is a VERY high percentage) meaning that he only had like 1 non-Nigerian person in his family tree ever.
He kept crying about how it was so sad that his people were forced out of Nigeria into slavery where they were forced to work on farms and eventually had their bloodline mixed with non-Nigerians, and he was sad that it was impossible to trace his family tree back to actual people on the boat.
WTF
Are all "born in the USA for 7 generations" African Americans like this? WTF My "bloodline" is always 1 generation away from the person on the boat. You think I can trace my freaking lineage back further than you? Hell no, records like that didn't exist in Yugoslavia, you're lucky that your "people" ended up in a country that has luxury items like "food" and "water".
Nigerian life expectancy is 46 years.
20% of children don't make it to age 5.
Why? Because Nigeria is freaking retarded.
It is HORRIBLE to live in Nigeria.
In the USA, in order for you to live in poverty, you have to literally RUN from everything, avoiding welfare and social services. In Canada, to live in poverty you literally have to exile yourself to the Yukon, and kill any people trying to give you aid with your bare fists.
In Nigeria, to live in poverty you just have to be born. Hopefully you'll make it to age 5, that way you can help your family irk out some fetid water from some kind of abandoned farm equipment.
The people who don't die of starvation (mostly women and children) often get killed by bandits and other retards who drive around shooting people and cutting throats to make sure their nation never crawls out of the death spiral. If you're a bandit you're lucky, oh wait, no you're not, because your peers kill each other all day long, and you're a member of "each other".
So, if I was the millionaire football player with the supermodel wife and two healthy kids living in America as a result of my ancestors getting "stolen" from a death-trap, would I really be all choked up because I couldn't trace my ancestry back further than 6 generations? Hell no.
Some of my ancestors were forced into mandatory unpaid labor in Europe during the various wars. Some of the women in my family struggled to keep their family together during those times. Am I teary eyed about that? No, I'm glad I wasn't born in some Slavic nation like my ancestors were. It sucks there, I can easily admit that. The roads were, and still are, paved with poop. They share a "town bicycle". Screw that.
So, WTF is wrong with Mr Perfect-Life-Whiny-Bastard? Is he not glad that his family survived? Why is he pining for his lost chance at being Nigerian?
As far as I see it, anybody still whining about this crap needs to shut up.
Obviously, historical investigation is not whining.
Memorial making, is not whining.
I know whining when I see it, and MrFootball man is a whiner who needs to take a chip off of his shoulder. Seriously.
Imagine if the slave trade never happened.
What would be different?
Well, for one, a whole pile of Nigerians would have died around age 46 instead of raising healthy families in the Americas.