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black people, too! we were so strong and resilient and good at labor that humans paid for our travel across the seas and gave us the opportunity to help build
by perfmode 7y ago
black people, too! we were so strong and resilient and good at labor that humans paid for our travel across the seas and gave us the opportunity to help build America! we were fed and housed and everything, oh my! gosh
> Shadow with me while I'm steppin' on my own resentment
> Life scatter in all directions, I was overzealous
> Overcurious, Momma worry her days get better
> I know she heard me, a timid voice in her stormy weather
> And Poppa taught me our ancestors were tarred and feathered
And brought across the sea, bodies swinging from poplar trees
> I wore a modernesque version, my burden haunted me
I cautiously approach the rather daunting sea
> By nightfall I face the man I'm 'sposed to be
All this grief, been eatin' away my stomach lining
> It's hard to eat when my poppa image stuck inside me
> I wore his death mask,
> smilin' through the trauma
> In his honor,
> I'm expounding
- purplezooey 7y agowait.... what
- toasterlovin 7y agoAnimals are not people and they do not occupy the same moral category.
- perfmode 7y agoblacks weren't people then, either. back then, blacks didn't occupy the same moral category as the humans who bred and traded them. afterwards, blacks were upgraded to 2/5ths human. now, we still struggle for acceptance and parity. morality is a process.
- toasterlovin 7y agoAnimals are categorically not humans. This is a scientific fact which you can quantify and measure. Blacks are humans. That is another scientific fact which you can quantify and measure.
- taffer 7y agoWho says that we should draw the line at species level and not in any other arbitrarily chosen category? Science is not.
- perfmode 7y agoblacks being humans didn't stop us from slotting them into an inferior moral category. and back then, we asserted as scientific fact that they were inferior. the apparatus of justification is something which changes over time. it is interesting to me to observe your invocation of our present day apparatus of justification. :)
- toasterlovin 7y agoYes, but we came to see blacks as equal because they are, in fact, humans, just like whites. Animals will never be humans, no matter what. They will always remain a separate moral category. Here's a simple thought experiment that should illustrate this: Imagine a scenario in which you can save one of two lives: a human or a dog. You can't pick both. Just one. The question is not, "Which would you save?", but instead, "Would you final moral fault in a person who chose to save the dog?". Almost everybody would hold a person who chose to save the dog morally culpable for the death of the human. But they would not hold them morally culpable for the death of the dog if they chose to save the human. That will never change. Because animals are not humans.
- perfmode 7y agothat's post-hoc rationalization. we came to see blacks as humans because lots of people shed blood and fought for their rights. nothing was handed to anyone for free.
- toasterlovin 7y agoSo you'd find no moral fault in a person who chose to save a dog instead of a human?
- Creationer 7y agoI realise this is satire, but the quality of life of Africans living in the USA now is substantially higher than their ancestral cousins who remained in Africa.
- perfmode 7y agoare you really attempting to justify transatlantic slave trade?