Originally Posted by Darth Bane:
I mean to point out that most if not all africans no matter what nationality point out slavery being the main cause. It's a matter of class warfare paramount to nothing in modern days. People forget that when the colonies here had caucasion indentured servants that were white too!
Yes, people forget or maybe didn't know the history. And maybe too, there is a degree of willful ignorance about the history of slavery in the southern states.
Bringing black slaves out of Africa was possible only with the involvement of their black masters. Without that link in the chain, the trade would have been difficult, if not impossible.
In the southern states both black and white (indentured) servants were bought and sold and both could purchase their freedom.
Anthony Johnson purchased his and became the first legal owner of the lifetime services of slaves. He has been referred to as "The Father of Negro Slavery in Virginia"
Johnson was black.
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As I was saying about a rival community that is taking our territory.
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Muslim youths are angry, frustrated and extremist because they have been mis-educated and de-educated by the British schooling. Muslim children are confused because they are being educated in a wrong place at a wrong time in state schools with non-Muslim monolingual teachers. They face lots of problems of growing up in two distinctive cultural traditions and value systems, which may come into conflict over issues such as the role of women in the society, and adherence to religious and cultural traditions. The conflicting demands made by home and schools on behaviour, loyalties and obligations can be a source of psychological conflict and tension in Muslim youngsters. There are also the issues of racial prejudice and discrimination to deal with, in education and employment.
They are victims of racism and bullying in all walks of life. According to DCSF, 56% of Pakistanis and 54% of Bangladeshi children has been victims of bullies. The first wave of Muslim migrants were happy to send their children to state schools, thinking their children would get a much better education. Than little by little, the overt and covert discrimination in the system turned them off. There are fifteen areas where Muslim parents find themselves offended by state schools.
The right to education in one’s own comfort zone is a fundamental and inalienable human right that should be available to all people irrespective of their ethnicity or religious background. Schools do not belong to state, they belong to parents. It is the parents’ choice to have faith schools for their children. Bilingual Muslim children need state funded Muslim schools with bilingual Muslim teachers as role models during their developmental periods. There is no place for a non-Muslim teacher or a child in a Muslim school. There are hundreds of state schools where Muslim children are in majority. In my opinion, all such schools may be designated as Muslim community schools. An ICM Poll of British Muslims showed that nearly half wanted their children to attend Muslim schools. There are only 143 Muslim schools. A state funded Muslim school in Birmingham has 220 pupils and more than 1000 applicants chasing just 60.
Majority of anti-Muslim stories are not about terrorism but about Muslim culture - the hijab, Muslim schools, family life and religiosity. Muslims in the west ought to be recognised as a western community, not as an alien culture.
Iftikhar Ahmad
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This horrific story from today's Times is pause for thought.
Gang crime: the chilling world of the Loyal Soldie
Two ‘generals’ in an East London gang tell The Times about their lives – the knifings, the shootings, the cocaine dealing.
Late this afternoon, Michael will emerge from his council home on to the streets of the East London estate that he knows as “the block”.
If it is a good day, the 19-year-old will quickly get rid of the two ounces of cocaine that are burning a hole in the pocket of his low-slung jeans.
Eli, a fellow “general” in his Leytonstone gang, the Loyal Soldiers, will be successful in his quest for an “eight-ball” - about 3.5g of coke that he has promised a client. They'll celebrate their success by smoking some weed.
But if it is a bad day, the events of a fortnight ago will repeat themselves. There will be “beef” - a fight with a rival gang - and the chances are that someone will get knifed, popped, bored or wetted up. Whatever the parlance: someone will get hurt.
Like many boys his age, Michael dreams of bigger and better things.
“Having the kind of money to have my own boys working drugs for me, them bringing in the money,” he told The Times. “That's instead of me being in the limelight, me being on the street. That's my progress. Everyone wants to be in the director's seat.”
Once, Michael's ambitions were different. It seems a lifetime ago, but at primary school he dreamt of becoming a firefighter. These days, his role models are gang bosses of the tough estates in Peckham and Brixton. “All them lot down South London, those G's [gangsters] are real. It's a completely different world to here.
I violate you in South London, I'd be gone in an hour. Round here, they let things die down, they don't do nothing.”
The two boys, whose youthful faces belie their tough attitudes, started their gang a few years ago when Michael was released from detention. He had been sent there for committing robbery at knifepoint
Michael and Eli had agreed - through an intermediary - to meet The Times this week and tell their story, giving a compelling insight into the gang rivalries that span the capital. Their faces glow with pride as they describe the Loyal Soldiers' reputation.
Emphasising his words with a stabbing gesture, Eli says: “What other cliques know is that we ain't really got much guns around us. We use our knives, we really use 'em. Done a lot of that. Bored [stabbed] this guy in the head three times. Done that, done that, alright, I got the heart to do that
“The mood lightens when Eli tells how the white couple to whom he had been planning to sell drugs had a “crack fiend baby”.
“She was very smiley, like, talking rubbish,” he says, rolling his eyes back in his head to demonstrate the state of the child.”
Gang crime: the chilling world of the Loyal Soldiers - Times Online
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