#IfSlaveryWasAChoice trending after Kanye's comment about Slavery

[Da King]

Instead of making a joke hashtag trending in response to Kanye's dumb comment 'Black Twitter' should have made a hashtag educating people like Kanye why slavery was indeed not a choice.

But then they won’t get retweets

 

[MikelArteta]

Slavery is not and will never be a joke

 

[Gold]

Because every other group's oppression was taken seriously and again, that's something out of our control. I get so sick of black people thinking they need to act, dress, talk or behave in a certain way in order for white people to change their view on them. There's NOTHING we can do to change their opinion and actions.

I do get the point about not joking about slavery, but I didn't feel it was a jab to slavery, more than it was a jab at Kayne's idiotic remarks.

I get your point about us never being taken seriously by white people to begin with, but what about our own?

Forgot white people for a sec, would you take these people seriously? I sure as he'll wouldn't. You can't even joke about the Biafran War to me and that was nothing compared to slavery.

We either take it seriously or we don't. Not everything needs to be a damn joke or hashtag

 

[Rawtid]

Slavery and the Holocaust are such poor comparisons and I wish people would stop using that as an example. Yes I know there are many similarities, but the main difference, to me, is that Jews were not FORCED into illiteracy, blacks were and that made a HUGE difference. Anne Frank had a diary at 13...how many black slaves were allowed to read and write at 13?!? Had we had education, I certainly believe things would be different.

 

[Rawtid]

I get your point about us never being taken seriously by white people to begin with, but what about our own?

Forgot white people for a sec, would you take these people seriously? I sure as he'll wouldn't. You can't even joke about the Biafran War to me and that was nothing compared to slavery.

We either take it seriously or we don't. Not everything needs to be a damn joke or hashtag

Yes. It was a joke in response to a dumb ass comment, not the permanent state of thought or being for an individual.

 

[Gold]

Slavery and the Holocaust are such poor comparisons and I wish people would stop using that as an example. Yes I know there are many similarities, but the main difference, to me, is that Jews were not FORCED into illiteracy, blacks were and that made a HUGE difference. Anne Frank had a diary at 13...how many black slaves were allowed to read and write at 13?!? Had we had education, I certainly believe things would be different.

I think you're being too technical and missing the overarching point. The point of the comparisons were not to say which one was worse, it was to point out how one is treated with reverence and has an implied taboo.

 

[Gold]

Yes. It was a joke in response to a dumb ass comment, not the permanent state of thought or being for an individual.

Well at least you're consistent. I had a coworker in 2015 who always made slavery jokes. Could never take that nikka seriously.

 

[TheOriginal]

Jokes about slavery?

 

[TheOriginal]

Must be some form of coping mechanism...

 

[KamikazePilot]

Mental illness

 

[Master Teacher]

Mental illness

This prove Kanye was right, these ignorant ass nikkaz on twitter or equating themselves to slaves in the present day, which is mean in their subconscious they still see themselves as slaves

what kanye was doing was trying to empower the mind

when slaves knew they had a choice, thats when they rebelled,if slaves never knew they had a choice slavery would have never ended

 

[Koapa]

This is what happens when young black folks don’t know the true history of slavery and the tactics used to humiliate,kill, demoralize our ancestors...
shyt is beyond corny..

Thank you. Real slavery wasnt taught and explained to each passing generation. They had guns for us. They had laws for us. They had plenty of land and undeveloped land so we couldnt just run away. They humilated, tortured, raped the strongest black man in front of his family to keep the rest of the blacks in check. The had all kinds of torture techniques for us. Rape our women. They broke my people.

These new nikkas shyting on our ancestors should never be tolerated by anyone black or white. We need to publicly shame anyone who shyt on our ancestors.

 

[CinnaSlim]

Black People are the only people that make joke of their plight

We're not the only ones.
Thats how we cope plus their making fun of Kanye not slavery.

 

[levitate]

Y'all more upset at the parody than Kanye's original statement.

It's like y'all fail to see the absurdity of Kanye's statement as expressed by these parodies .

 

[CinnaSlim]

Y'all more upset at the parody than Kanye's original statement.

It's like y'all fail to see the absurdity of Kanye's statement as expressed by these parodies .

Its their elitism and lack of confidence in their own people showing.