The Slave Trade: 200 Years On

*whew* i thought for a minute there I'd made an online enemy over wordage. I didn't mean you any offense, and you might be the ONE Texan I have met in my life that isn't a total putz. LOL I have met many though, across the spectrum. The first ones I knew was from my former church when I was younger. I was living in Rochester, NY and many Texans moved there to work for Harris. Every one of them were not necessarily bigotted but were only concerned with making money and their status not how they treated people. As I moved on in life, I met other people from Texas, gun toting ones, rascist ones, gay ones, and one guy into super freaky fetish stuff. But all of them (that I could stomach) still had this "i'm better than you cause i'm from Texas" mentality, and when you cut down to their core they were still pretty right-winged and conservative or at least played at being that way when at home they were big freaks.

I've never understood the mentality that makes someone think one state is particularly better than any other. And well, unfortunately, that is the attitude most (not saying all but most) people I've encountered from Texas have.



Now back on topic. I totally agree with you as well about what you said about the continuous slavery that goes on in other countries. Hell even sanctioned slavery like what happens in Mexico even where companies move there cause they know they can hire people and only pay them $1.00 a day or less for the work someone in the States would want well over $6.00 an hour for. Even though it is not child labour or done at gun point it is still a form of slavery.

It's hard to know though how to stop behaviour like that from happening though, unless the governments stop supporting such behaviour. And unfortunately, it doesn't look like that is likely.

 

Well, you're dead on right about most Texans...the whole "Texan Pride" bit is instilled from such an early age it's really hard to undo; I dare say I have it even a little bit although there's no real reason for it. We do spend an entire year in school studying the history of the state, which instills it even further, but actually that part is fairly interesting.

The whole "status" thing is true of a lot of places, but I agree there's something to the nth degree instilled in most of us. I suppose part of it is driven out of fear because there is no safety net if you lose everything.

I don't get the state mentality either. Most of them haven't even been outside of Texas so they wouldn't know. Perhaps it's like driving all the big trucks and hummers and what have you; compromising for something else? Dunno, don't live there anymore....

 

well they did raid the west country and iceland and ireland and I am addressing the Issue ,for whatever reason we have a more extensive system of slavery thats being ignored and a minor system of slavery thats being played up

 

But why do you feel the need to divert attention away from the original issue? Also, the underlying point that the modern Western nation states owe a lot of their power and wealth to the legacy of slavery. The North African states, on the other hand, ended up being bled dry by colonialism....