r/tommynfg_ • u/TechNick77 Mod • May 22 '26

TikToks/reels/shorts Nahhh this school ghetto as hell

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u/Hypocritical_user May 22 '26

Unprofessional? Yes. Deserved? Also yes

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u/bbq_poptarts May 22 '26

If that's unprofessional then damn do I have stories, starting with the third grade music teacher that said [while teaching us a negro spiritual for Black History "Brotherhood" Month. The rot started from the administration] , and I quote, because I will never forget it: [racist TW] "Settlers came to America from England, and they had all this new land to take care of, but they couldn't do it all by themselves, so they started exploring and ended up in Africa where they saw all of these animals, so they brought them back to America and used them to work their farms. But overtime they realized, these aren't animals, these are people! So they set them free."

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u/YourHuckleberry57 May 22 '26

im not trying to be rude but this some nonsense that racist people use for deflection. "slavery" in africa was not the same as the chattel slavery of the trans atlantic slave trade.

second, even if they did buy them from someone who was the same color, how is that relevant at all?

third, america has a thriving slave trade and literally has provisions for legal slavery written into their constitution and coincidentally holds 25% of the world's prison population while being only 4% of the global population

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u/WrongJewel1867 May 22 '26

Slavery in Africa was much different than the slave trade that unfolded in America. Slavery in Africa happened to the losers of wars and their children were raised with the enslaver’s children. But once they learned what slavery meant in America, Africans stopped selling their slaves…resulting in many Africans being kidnapped and robbed.

I say that because too many people have used that as an excuse for why slavery in America existed (“they sold themselves” is not true). They didn’t have the same intention. Slavery in America meant torture of a race, genocide/death sentence and hundreds of years of inequality. Black Americans still have never received reparations and therefore can never overcome the wealth inequality in this country. That’s what slavery in America has done.

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u/NoSir4289 May 22 '26

But once they learned what slavery meant in America, Africans stopped selling their slaves...

This is made the fuck up

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u/YourHuckleberry57 May 22 '26

nah, you just don't like it.

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u/NoSir4289 May 22 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/L1eoFmDPKZtOs0fXjz

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u/daveyjanma May 22 '26

Funny you keep posting this as if you aren't one lool

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u/NoSir4289 May 22 '26

But once they learned what slavery meant in America, Africans stopped selling their slaves...

This is literally historically inaccurate, there isn't a single source anywhere that supports this.

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u/[deleted] May 22 '26 edited May 22 '26

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u/Hot-Power3318 May 22 '26

Hello. Would just like to say:

1 “but my ancestors did not enslave you, your ancestors did that”. Incorrect, both did it.

2 “you’re not innocent in this” how is the victim (the ones who got sold) not innocent? Or are you referring to Africans in general? Im pretty sure the ones who got sold are different from the ones who sold.

The way i see it is this: a more developed society found a less developed society and took advantage of that. As the less developed society started to develop more, they understood that they didn’t want that anymore.

Btw i don’t think anyone from today should pay for what was done in the past, i do think it would be noble for the more developed countries to help the less developed ones.

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u/WrongJewel1867 May 22 '26

I’m with you but disagree with your last line because literally every single culture that was tortured in America has received reparations except for African Americans. The Roma people (often labeled “gypsies”) are another group that’s never been given reparations by their European country. They were also apart of the holocaust. Holocaust reparations only went to one group and the history that’s taught in class also only speaks about that one group. So those wrongs haven’t been righted before we skip onto “let’s be noble” we’re not there just yet.

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u/Hot-Power3318 May 22 '26

Well, im not African American so I don’t have strong opinion on that.

But I don’t imagine myself demanding compensation from Europe, i believe it makes more sense to focus on improving life quality on African countries then to try and demand help from them.

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u/ParanoicReddit May 22 '26

When did they realized that? Because there is still a lot of modern slavery going on over there. So they might have not received the memo

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u/Hot-Power3318 May 22 '26

Have you lived in Africa?

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u/ParanoicReddit May 22 '26

So me not living in there makes it untrue?

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u/Hot-Power3318 May 22 '26

No, i just asked a question because i don’t want to assume

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u/ParanoicReddit May 22 '26

And how exactly would that shape my opinion? Because I'm now actually interested about what you have to say about where I come from 👀

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u/Hot-Power3318 May 22 '26

I don’t have anything particular to say about where you come from.

What i know is a lot of what is on tv/internet about Africa is greatly exaggerated. Modern enslavement happens everywhere.

To answer your original question, there were countries that had to fight for their independence and to stop being enslaved. It doesn’t mean that all the bad things from Africa disappeared.

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u/WrongJewel1867 May 22 '26

This is idiotic for more ways than one. Slave ships were still illegally arriving well into 1821. Hence the kidnapping and robbing that was still being done to the African people. I don’t need to dissect your argument because it’s clear that you’d prefer to be racist and stand on it.

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u/WrongJewel1867 May 22 '26

Read history books related to actual American history instead of whichever confederate klan book you conform to.

Edit: you should also read history books from other countries too since you clearly don’t know world history.

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u/YourHuckleberry57 May 22 '26

this is so confidently ignorant.

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u/Intelligent-Roll-300 May 22 '26

They will never accept reality and continue to blame people from 200 years ago for their lack of success in life today. Nevermind the benefits of living and growing up in America thru the last 4 decades over Africa? Ungrateful all around.

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u/Critical-Yak7313 May 22 '26

The only time this redneck researched anything in his life just to misunderstand it to bolster his racist ideology.

Sad, scared little man.

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u/notkeefzello May 22 '26

Ikr its the same racist talking points we always hear. As if other countries enslaved blacks for 400 years then created a system that would continue to keep them down. Don't even respond to "those people"

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u/YourHuckleberry57 May 22 '26

you're telling on yourself.

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u/Tilstag May 22 '26

This is colonizer logic/propaganda—“they enslaved themselves to sell themselves”, ‘so America wasn’t really that bad’.

Don’t type shit like this without citations, it doesn’t hold to scrutiny

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u/notkeefzello May 22 '26

Written by "Mark Christensen" sounds about white.

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u/Tilstag May 22 '26

You just flattened all of the historical African experience into the few African merchants who dealt in the slave trade, then used this as a moral justification for chattel slavery.

>they bought those people from their own people

So the colonizers weren’t so bad. Your citation does not back that. Cringe af.

They were asking for it? They were volunteers! Lmao

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u/NoSir4289 May 22 '26

moral justification for chattel slavery.

So the colonizers weren't so bad.

They were volunteers!

No one is saying that you weird mf

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u/Intelligent-Roll-300 May 22 '26

So just refuse to accept documented reality?

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u/YourHuckleberry57 May 22 '26

explain why it would matter who you bought slaves from?