Katt Williams says ancestors were cowards for accepting slavery. Right or wrong?

[CapitalB]

He is saying we accepted slavery like there was never any fighting back. That is the part I have a problem with.

im sure the ones not fighting backwere the ones breeding tho?? :flushed:

 

[mryounggun]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

 

[CapitalB]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

nah my nigga.

theyd have had to kill me..

 

[caddo man]

Queen Nzinga Mbande of central Africa, Nat Turner, 1811 Louisiana slave rebellion, Black Seminoles, the Gabriel’s Conspiracy of 1800 There are hundreds of other smaller instances of slaves rebelling. But you have to think most died out because they were out gunned. It is not like they tought them to fight. They kept them away from weapons because of that simple fact.

Yall have to research your history to see that the Haitian werent the first but they were the most succesful.

Check out the haitian rebellion and how they set them up to be a poor nation that they are today with trade embargos and France's money bounties.

 

[D. Morgan]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

Everybody not built the same. Being born into something doesn't a person will stay in that state. Some people just wasn't going to be a slave born into it or not.

Some slaves chose to rebel and were killed and some chose to run away and were killed.

 

[alliknowishate]

So if slaves were cowards does that mean niggas who kill other niggas are strong? Since their enslaved maybe mentally, physically, materialism or just because they dont want to look weak.

 

[Muhannad]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

Like I said before, how do you explain Spartans, Haitians, maroons in the caribbean and South America etc.? They fought eventhough they were born into slavery. I know it's hard to admit, but I think you should come to grips with the fact the overwhelming majority of your ancestors were slaves. We can't fight against facts, even if the truth hurts sometimes...

 

[jono]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

This is one of those "provocative" topics like the "meh, rape aint too bad" topics

 

[StillFaggyAF]

I descend from maroons and Haitians so my bloodline nuh coward

Maybe HIS ancestors were bitchmade

 

[CapitalB]

So if slaves were cowards does that mean niggas who kill other niggas are strong? Since their enslaved maybe mentally, physically, materialism or just because they dont want to look weak.

they're not cowards..

they're mentally weak tho..

but this aint about them.

lets stick to topic..

 

[Cocoa_Butter]

I see what this thread is about to turn into. These AA vs Non-AA discussions are so tired now.

 

[kzzl]

I'm not saying Kat's completely wrong, but I think conquered is a better word. It's not like slaves didn't try over the years. Slaves fought back throughout that era in many ways, big and small. But white supremacy was, and still is, a stronger opponent.

 

[Louis Devinear]

Yeah he right.

Til this day niggas is still showing signs of cowardice.

I'm not super nigga by any means. But it's but so much niggas can take.

400 years with a boot on your neck? Nah homie that's pressure.

 

[Muhannad]

I hate when people be like 'Shit if I was alive back then, I wouldn't have been no slave! They woulda had to kill me!'. It's very easy to say that these days, having never experienced anything remotely close to slavery.

But if you were born a slave - having never known anything else...nigga you just would have been a slave. That's that.

This is one of those "provocative" topics like the "meh, rape aint too bad" topics

Nobody's forcing you to reply in this thread though. You already gave your opinion, so why come back to whine some more? You don't see me replying in these "would you eat (...)" type threads.

 

[Jabu_Rule]

Why folks acting like slaves weren't escaping in America? What was the islands in the carolinas and the indian federations, and the escapees to the north, canada and Mexico, and the planned and failed rebellions? The Civil War wasn't our fight for freedom even though we fought in every war America had for a hope that they would accept us. The Civil Rights movement was our war and we lost generals. If anything, cowards are living today complaining and never having to face that hardship, or living in America with black skin but not respecting what the ancestors of African Americans did to make yo ass not have to sip out that other fountain and make a fortune here.

 

[Olorun22]

First and foremost can we as a people stop calling black people slaves.....

Second it was several rebellions but they all fail simple because they couldn't sustain weaponry and food. They didn't know how to survive that's why the whites kept them dumb

 

[2stepz_ahead]

French reinforcements was an ocean away

same with the Spanish

 

[StillFaggyAF]

mayb scared like hell..

shit ...time were alot different then.

niggas was mentally broken...odd was stacked.

can't call them cowards tho

i can understand the shock and awe part..

but at what point do u get pasy that??!

i can even understand bein born into a situation..

but to die in it?!

and of course niggas aint go wanna touch this topic cause it would be admitting their own cowardice.. seein as niggas is still slaves..

but being born into something.... you're programmed to think thats what life is unless you see different.

only a special few will rebel while alot is either waiting on someone else go take the first step or they don't wanna rock the boat

Are you sure about that? Haitians were born into slavery. Maroons in countries like Jamaica, Surinam, Colombia, Brazil etc. were born into slavery. What made them fight against oppression while others didn't?

Geography and ethnicity plays a big role

 

[ghostdog56]

If that's the case then niggas today are cowards too, police are killing us and we don't do shit, they make laws that target us and we don't do shit they push drugs into our communities and we don't do shit ect. So if he really believes that then he should have been a dead muthafucka a long time ago.

When Micah Johnson killed those cops look at all the niggas on here that was in the thread talking about he was stupid and we can't defeat the government in a armed revolution, so I guess niggas today have the same mentality as the niggas of yesteryear

 

[caddo man]

So the cowards were the one that rebelled but lost and the non cowards were the successful ones. Okay, cool!