Aim64C
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This isn't really a different history. The Slavs were enslaved within the Ottoman and Roman empires, in many cases. Treks through Yugoslavia to raid the region for slaves were quite common. It's where the term "Slavery" comes from. The name of the Slavic people has, in many languages, become the root word to describe forced or indentured service. Try that on for oppression.
Nikola(i) Tesla was a Slav. Read up on his history, and tell me that the blacks of today - or even those newly freed from the plantations - had it better/worse than he did. Of course, the Slavs still have their culture, and that is what has allowed them to rebound within whatever societies they find themselves.
Compare the immigrant Irish in America with the Ethnic Irish in America. What many do not realize is that, under the slave trade, Ireland was purged of effectively half its population. These Irish then found themselves in America and other portions of the British Empire as slaves expected to work on plantation farms. There was even an old expression; "better to be a nigger than a ginger." The Irish were effectively shoved off as a depopulation strategy onto the other nations and completely flooded the market. Rather than being seen as equipment, they were seen as a consumable.
Large swaths of ethnic Irish in America have absolutely no clue they are of Irish descent, or that they are the descendants of slaves. This group has, along with many Germans and other European and Native American groups, become "The White American" as it is understood from the midwest suburban and rural countryside.
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Blacks in America have achieved something that has not often been seen. Blacks integrated into their host society and became a part of it by way of culture, literacy and proficiency. The South has long been dominated by black, skilled labor. They became machinists, they became foreman, they became smiths and engineers. They learned and they took the fact they could choose when and how to work to apply it to their own goals - and for quite some time - they chose to become American.
Then we got to the 1960s and labor unions got all up in arms when skilled labor from the South began to move in and underbid their inflated price fixing schemes with each other. That's what the 'civil rights movement' ultimately boiled down to as the unions instigated the conflict on one side and then used communist party activists to agitate the masses. It worked. Welfare destroyed the black community (and their similarly affected Irish elsewhere in the U.S. - damning them to trailer parks and shanty hovels) and began to split the family.
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