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Why is the NAACP condemning 99.6% of the White Population...and choose to ignore the fact?

Free Blacks were slave Owners comprising approximately 28% of the black population of 4.5 million prior to the Civil War.

4.8 percent of southern whites owning one or more slaves, out of 8 million white living in the South. Only 1.4 % out of the entire population of 27 million owned slaves...Why are they condemning the 99.6% of whites in America that had nothing to do with slavery....?

1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slave-holding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. Of this number, 10,689 lived in New Orleans. The country's leading African American historian, Duke University professor John Hope Franklin, records that in New Orleans over 3,000 free Negroes owned slaves, or 28 percent of the free Negroes in that city.

Read, learn, know...Knowledge is Power....

http://americancivilwar.com/authors/black_slaveown...

Update:

momma did you actually read the article ...no!

4.5 million is the total number in America pre-civil war not in the just in the South. These statsitic are from the U.S. Census Bureau...go there and do your own research.

The point was that Free Blacks were slave owners.

Read the article...it was done by a respected Professor of Duke University, not me.

Update 2:

Islam and the Warring Tribes of Africa have done more harm to the Black population then America.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Islam+and+the+Warring...

Update 3:

Islam and the Warring Tribes of Africa have done more harm to the Black population then America.

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Islam+and+the+Warring...

Update 4:

eg - these are facts from the U.S. Census Bureau...it is the lack of education in America when it comes to the issue of Slavery in America.....

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Because they are desperate to remain relevant. Without racism, they have no platform, so, they have to stir the pot.

  • 1 decade ago

    So a non-slave percentage of 6.5% was a demonstration of how unimportant slavery was? You have an odd way of proving that slavery wasn't really a problem. If a little less than 300,000 of blacks in the south were non-slave, that means a little less than 3.7 million were slaves. Yeah, that's a stat to be proud of!

    Not to mention that the NAACP was created way past the abolition of slavery in a time when, even though nominally free, blacks were still considered second class citizens. You can try to deny this all you want.

    Then there's the problem of your statement that the NAACP condemns 99.6% of whites. When I put "NAACP condemns 99.6% of whites" into the search engine, this is what I got. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=NAACP%20condemns%... Only slightly over two pages, not one of which supports your statement. Perhaps you googled it some other way.

    Edit: Apparently, you are the one who didn't read the article. I quote "According to federal census reports, on June 1, 1860 there were nearly 4.5 million Negroes in the United States, with fewer than four million of them living in the southern slaveholding states. Of the blacks residing in the South, 261,988 were not slaves. " I took four million to calculate the percentage since it says fewer than four but not how much fewer. I then divided that number into 260,000. That is the percentage of blacks who were not slaves in the South.

    It was just as wrong for blacks to own slaves as whites, but that percentage was even smaller. And as I already mentioned, that wasn't what the NAACP was created about.

    Now, about that 99.6% statement. Find any sources yet?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Maybe it's not all about slavery. Maybe it's about the treatment of ALL black people throughout the history of this country (which only seems to be getting worse).

    Plus, you people are the only ones who seem to think that NAACP speaks for all black people.

    Maybe instead of "reading" so much, you should go out and actually talk to some black people and find out that they don't condemn you.

  • If anyone with an IQ over 75 agrees with the NAALCP I suspect they have a agenda to somehow get low IQ minorities to mail them money.

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  • They missed out on the lesson that covered not biting the hand that feeds you.

  • 1 decade ago

    I guess I just missed the part where the NAACP condemned 99.6% of the White Population. Can you cite that source?

  • 1 decade ago

    try not to take things so personally ... it is meaningless to twist and distort facts, especially when they have nothing to do with you

    reminds me of Rush and Beck

  • 1 decade ago

    Because they are a racist group that needs to be dissolved.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its easier to pass blame

  • Liz
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Perhaps they are the more racist.

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