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ChipChipperson posted...

Honestly, are there any black content creators out there who write about things other than being black? Its boring

Wouldn't make the same amount of money if they didn't pander to identity politics.

Bligh_with_no_T posted...

So is this like X Men with the metaphor removed?

While many groups have claimed that the X-Men are a metaphor for them, it's never worked for blacks or any other race because half of the theme is that *anybody* could turn out to be a mutant whereas only the children of at least one black parent can be black.

TheCyborgNinja posted...

If it's set in the USA, it sort of makes sense because of how long slavery dragged on for... The strongest and the fittest survived the trip from Africa and then had to again withstand the deplorable treatment they endured upon arriving in the new world.

No, it really doesn't make a lick of sense considering that ALL overseas American immigrants underwent hellacious trips which were actually far worse before the slave trade picked up and were subjected to brutal living conditions. The slave trade largely began after all the infrastructure went down and largely took place in a more gentle climate.

And, in terms of survival of the fittest, keep in mind that blacks were historically subjected to less-adverse conditions which is why blacks kept their melanin whereas whites mutated to adapt to environments with less sunlight. Survival of the fittest also shaped nations, where the strongest nations were able to inflict their will on weaker nations... which, of course, is one reason why there was a slave trade in the first place. If the West African nations had strong, cohesive governments, the slave trade would have been thwarted. However, in the absence of a strong, reasonably central government (or smaller powers with different values), you had tribes selling other tribes into bondage for rum and other goods

TheCyborgNinja posted...

Not really... They soon started outnumbering white people with high birth rates.

That's not even remotely close to being true. First, you've wrongly presupposed that the birth rates today are the same as they were over 200 years ago -- which, if you stayed awake in history, you'd know isn't the case. Second, you've forgotten that more whites immigrated than blacks; which is also something anybody with even the barest knowledge of US history should know. Third, you've made some misguided assumptions about the prevalence of slave ownership in the US. At any rate, at its absolute peak -- the highest point which was in 1790 -- the number of blacks in the US was only 20% of the total population. In short, it never even came close to outnumbering whites.

http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0056/tab01.pdf
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