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You dont have any problem hurling words around which are incendiary and hurtful and when youre called on it, using your own rationalization, your first and only response is to cry RACISM. You certainly can't have children in a TT private. At least I hope not. |
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Anonymous
I wasnt referring to any color. I was making a point using your own logic, only you are too stupid to realize it. |
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And "negro" is a word meaning "having black ancestors".
And "colored" is another variation on the term "of color". And "bastard" is a child born out of wedlock. Those are the proper definitions. So, you certainly won't have any objection to calling a child a "colored bastard" huh? If you do object, then it must be "your reaction". No one is baiting you, just posting words that are an apt description according to the dictionary. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I frankly don't have a problem with your dictionary abstractions. Why do you think I would object to your language? I bet you are the paranoid woman with auditory and visual hallucinations? I have no objections. And I have not accused you of baiting me. Now, what is your next scene? |
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The Columbia Encyclopedia defines "Holocaust" as "name given to the period of persecution and extermination of European Jews by Nazi Germany".[18] The Compact Oxford English Dictionary[19] and Microsoft Encarta[20] give similar definitions. The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines "Holocaust" as "the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II".[1]
Sensitivity must only be practiced by whites in your world. |
Anonymous
Finally a moment of humor amid all the bashing. |
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I am the poster that asked for the explanation and I read item 7 and a little more of the Alan Dershowitz piece. So let me get this straight. Just because fringe and radical group of African-Americans have used the word holocaust in an offensive way and deny that the holocaust every happened, any time a black person uses the word holocaust it is race baiting and offensive?
That's just craziness and I am off this thread for good.
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Maafa
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from African Holocaust (disambiguation)) Jump to: navigation, search Whipped slave, Baton Rouge, La., April 2, 1863 LocationAfrica.png Pan-African topics General Pan-Africanism Afro-Latino African American Kwanzaa Colonialism Africa Maafa Black people African philosophy Black conservatism Black leftism Black nationalism Black orientalism Afrocentrism African Topics Art FESPACO African art PAFF People George Padmore Walter Rodney Patrice Lumumba Thomas Sankara Frantz Fanon Chinweizu Ibekwe Molefi Kete Asante Ahmed Sékou Touré Kwame Nkrumah Marcus Garvey Nnamdi Azikiwe Malcolm X W. E. B. Du Bois C. L. R. James Cheikh Anta Diop This box: view • talk • edit African-American topics African-American history Atlantic slave trade · Maafa Slavery in the United States African-American military history Jim Crow laws · Redlining Civil Rights Movements 1896–1954 and 1955–1968 Afrocentrism · Reparations African-American culture African American studies Neighborhoods · Juneteenth Kwanzaa · Art · Museums Dance · Literature · Music · Schools · Historic colleges and universities Religion Black church · Black theology Black liberation theology Doctrine of Father Divine Black Hebrew Israelites American Society of Muslims Nation of Islam · Rastafari Political movements Pan-Africanism · Black Power Nationalism · Capitalism Conservatism · Populism Leftism · Black Panther Party Garveyism Civic and economic groups NAACP · SCLC · CORE · SNCC · NUL Rights groups · ASALH · UNCF NBCC · NPHC · The Links · NCNW Sports Negro league baseball CIAA · SIAC · MEAC · SWAC Ethnic sub-divisions Black Indians · Gullah · Igbo Languages English · Gullah · Creole African American Vernacular Diaspora Liberia · Nova Scotia · France Sierra Leone Lists African Americans National firsts · State firsts Landmark legislation Black diaspora Index Category · Portal This box: view • talk • edit Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is a word derived from the Swahili term for disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy.[1][2] The term refers to the 500 years of suffering of Africans and the African diaspora, through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, invasion, oppression, dehumanization and exploitation.[2][3] The term also refers to the social and academic policies that were used to invalidate or appropriate the contributions of African peoples to humanity as a whole,[2] and the residual effects of this persecution, as manifest in contemporary society.[4] While Maafa can be considered an area of study within African history in which both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse, it can also be taken as its own significant event in the course of global or world history.[5] When studied as African history, the paradigm emphasizes the legacy of the African Holocaust on African peoples globally. The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, in opposition to what is perceived to be the conventional Eurocentric voice; for this reason Maafa is an aspect of Pan-Africanism. Usage of the term Maafa to describe this period of persecution was popularized by Professor Marimba Ani's 1994 book Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora.[6][7][8][9] Contents [hide] * 1 Beyond slavery * 2 Curse of Ham * 3 Slavery in Africa * 4 European slave trade * 5 Arab slave trade o 5.1 Legacy of Arab enslavement of Africans * 6 Scale * 7 Effects * 8 Economics of slavery * 9 Colonialism and the European scramble for Africa * 10 Persecution of Africans after slavery * 11 Academic legacy of the African holocaust * 12 Questions of terminology * 13 Further reading * 14 References * 15 External links |
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It appears that scholars and others have aptly described 500 years of slavery and the slave trade as a holocaust for Africans around the globe.
Thanks for posting. |
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Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is a word derived from the Swahili term for disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy.[1][2] The term refers to the 500 years of suffering of Africans and the African diaspora, through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, invasion, oppression, dehumanization and exploitation.[2][3] The term also refers to the social and academic policies that were used to invalidate or appropriate the contributions of African peoples to humanity as a whole,[2] and the residual effects of this persecution, as manifest in contemporary society.[4]
While Maafa can be considered an area of study within African history in which both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse, it can also be taken as its own significant event in the course of global or world history.[5] When studied as African history, the paradigm emphasizes the legacy of the African Holocaust on African peoples globally. The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, in opposition to what is perceived to be the conventional Eurocentric voice; for this reason Maafa is an aspect of Pan-Africanism. Usage of the term Maafa to describe this period of persecution was popularized by Professor Marimba Ani's 1994 book Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora.[6][7][8][9] |
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Maafa (also known as the African Holocaust or Holocaust of Enslavement) is a word derived from the Swahili term for disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy.[1][2] The term refers to the 500 years of suffering of Africans and the African diaspora, through slavery, imperialism, colonialism, invasion, oppression, dehumanization and exploitation.[2][3] The term also refers to the social and academic policies that were used to invalidate or appropriate the contributions of African peoples to humanity as a whole,[2] and the residual effects of this persecution, as manifest in contemporary society.[4]
While Maafa can be considered an area of study within African history in which both the actual history and the legacy of that history are studied as a single discourse, it can also be taken as its own significant event in the course of global or world history.[5] When studied as African history, the paradigm emphasizes the legacy of the African Holocaust on African peoples globally. The emphasis in the historical narrative is on African agents, in opposition to what is perceived to be the conventional Eurocentric voice; for this reason Maafa is an aspect of Pan-Africanism. Usage of the term Maafa to describe this period of persecution was popularized by Professor Marimba Ani's 1994 book Let the Circle Be Unbroken: The Implications of African Spirituality in the Diaspora.[6][7][8][9] |
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From online encyclopedia/dictionary:
Etymology and usage of the term The word holocaust originally derived from the Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering", or "a burnt sacrifice offered to God". In Greek and Roman pagan rites, Gods of the earth and underworld received dark animals, which were offered by night and burnt in full. Holocaust was later used to refer to a sacrifice Jews were required to make by the Torah. But since the mid nineteenth century the word has been used by a large variety of authors to reference large catastrophes and massacres. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I frankly do not think usage of this term to describe 500 years of slavery for Africans was Jew baiting. Ironically, Jew baiting was the strategy employed by some posters who lurched in their primative and primordial custom and practise with screams of racism and anti-Semiteism...reminiscent of the lynching mob mentality in the days of slavery. |
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This conversation is not surprising.
The ADL conducted a survey in 2005 and found that an astounding 35% of African Americans were identified as "stongly anti-Semitic". This is more than 100% than that of the population as a whole. |