yet another thread people can't keep in the right forum for some reason

Kyle_Lurker
Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2014 in The Social Lounge
In here we put eachother on to different historical events or people you think would be an intresting share.

Please share what you know off the top of ya head and only use links or copy and paste articles as a proof or a back up.

Lets build awareness on some intresting ? that you may have never heard about.

Ill start...

Louis Farrakhan was a writer for Muhammad Speaks during the time of Malcoms X departure from the Nation of Islam. He seen X as a traitor and wrote articles calling for his death.

Before then, He was also Jealous of how X celebrity was higher than that of NOI and was seen as the leader when infact Elijah Muhammad was but was too sick to be in the spotlight so he gave X the go ahead.

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  • 7figz
    7figz Members Posts: 15,294 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Oprah Winphrey was ? by her father and her favorite color is purple.
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hip hop is not an American culture but a Black/African American/ igbo & bantu descendents culture. Along, with jazz, country, blues, r&b, pop, and rock n roll.

    Little Richard is rock n roll.

    word
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Lou Cypher wrote: »
    Samuel L Jackson was part of a political extremist group in College and held someone (i think it was the dean, or leaders of the board) hostage at gunpoint for about a day. Didnt do much jail time if any.

    Lmao damn
  • jono
    jono Members Posts: 30,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Money makes her ? ...that was somewhat inaccurate...
  • JonnyRoccIT
    JonnyRoccIT Members Posts: 14,389 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Despite how most portrayed Abe Lincoln as frail guy, he grew up as wrestler and town goon. He would often seek out the toughest dudes and ? them up. Once during a speech, his boy was in the crowd getting beat up and when seeing that, walked off stage and beat up the dude, threw him out and went back on to finishing his speech. Boss ? lol.
  • BoldChild
    BoldChild Members Posts: 11,415 ✭✭✭✭✭


    http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/assessment/estimates.faces

    The majority of African slaves were not sent to the U.S

  • Recaptimus_Prime360
    Recaptimus_Prime360 Members Posts: 64,801 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Despite how most portrayed Abe Lincoln as frail guy, he grew up as wrestler and town goon. He would often seek out the toughest dudes and ? them up. Once during a speech, his boy was in the crowd getting beat up and when seeing that, walked off stage and beat up the dude, threw him out and went back on to finishing his speech. Boss ? lol.



    Well damn. Abe about that life.
  • StillFaggyAF
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Large amounts of Chinese workers were sent to Louisiana and Arkansas after emancipation. They have mostly mixed with the former Slave population.
  • Ajackson17
    Ajackson17 Members Posts: 22,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Cain is our ancestor and @sixsicksins is 3rd generation ? sapien sapien
  • SixSickSins
    SixSickSins Members Posts: 8,134 ✭✭✭✭✭
  • A1000MILES
    A1000MILES Members, Writer Posts: 13,287 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Ghana was the first black African country to become independent....In 1960, Kwame Nkrumah; inspired by the work of Mahatma Ghandi...Declared Ghana a republic and declared himself president for life in 1964...He banned all opposition parties....He was overthrown in 1966 by a military coup while on a trip to Peking....He later died in exile in Romania in 1972.
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A1000MILES wrote: »
    Ghana was the first black African country to become independent....In 1960, Kwame Nkrumah; inspired by the work of Mahatma Ghandi...Declared Ghana a republic and declared himself president for life in 1964...He banned all opposition parties....He was overthrown in 1966 by a military coup while on a trip to Peking....He later died in exile in Romania in 1972.

    lol at president for life!

    That ? was lookin to get overthrown haha.

    Good drop i thought it was Haiti tho
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jesse Jackson had a hand in the murder of MLK. He set him up after being promised presidency.

    He was also caught lying about jus how he found martin shot.
  • S2J
    S2J Members Posts: 28,458 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Jesse Jackson had a hand in the murder of MLK. He set him up after being promised presidency.

    He was also caught lying about jus how he found martin shot.

    Goat thread but im gon need a source for this one
  • Ajackson17
    Ajackson17 Members Posts: 22,501 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wat
    Cain is your father
  • Antlerz
    Antlerz Members Posts: 3,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nas was the first ever to make a guest appearance on a Wu Tang song.
    http://youtu.be/g4s6QAF5RAY
  • twatgetta
    twatgetta Members Posts: 6,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Put you up on history? Go read a book ? ...put yourself up on history.
  • Kyle_Lurker
    Kyle_Lurker Members Posts: 3,741 ✭✭✭✭✭
    S2J wrote: »
    Jesse Jackson had a hand in the murder of MLK. He set him up after being promised presidency.

    He was also caught lying about jus how he found martin shot.

    Goat thread but im gon need a source for this one

    Take it for what its worth lol but i believe that ? .
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sjHtczIKS4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
  • dallas' 4 eva
    dallas' 4 eva Members Posts: 11,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hip hop is not an American culture but a Black/African American/ igbo & bantu descendents culture. Along, with jazz, country, blues, r&b, pop, and rock n roll.

    CHUCK BERRY and Little Richard are rock n roll.

    Fixed that for you.
  • StillFaggyAF
    StillFaggyAF Members Posts: 40,358 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Hip hop is not an American culture but a Black/African American/ igbo & bantu descendents culture. Along, with jazz, country, blues, r&b, pop, and rock n roll.

    Little Richard is rock n roll.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=b8epyQ5MnFY
  • Plutarch
    Plutarch Members Posts: 3,239 ✭✭✭✭✭
    here's some trivia history. seems like not too many people know about this. I sure as hell didn't since recently. I had always thought that blacks always came up on the short end of the stick when it came to slave violence, but them Haitians...
    The 1804 Haiti Massacre

    The 1804 Haiti Massacre was an ethnic cleansing which was carried out against the remaining white population of French Creoles in Haiti by the order of Jean-Jacques Dessalines. The massacre, which took place in the entire territory of Haiti, was carried out from early February 1804 until 22 April 1804, and resulted in the death of between 3,000 to 5,000 people of all ages and gender.

    Squads of soldiers moved from house to house, killing entire families. Even whites who had been friendly and sympathetic to the black population were imprisoned and later killed. A second wave of massacres targeted white women and children.


    ...

    During February and March, Dessalines traveled among the cities of Haiti to assure himself that his orders were carried out. Despite his orders, the massacres were often not carried out until he actually visited the cities himself.

    The course of the massacre showed an almost identical pattern in every city he visited. Before his arrival, there were only a few killings, despite his orders. When Dessalines arrived, he first spoke about the atrocities committed by former white authorities, such as Rochambeau and Leclerc, after which he demanded that his orders about mass killings of the areas white population should be put in effect. Reportedly, he ordered also the unwilling to take part in the killings, especially men of mixed race, so that the blame should not be placed solely on the black population. Mass killings then took place on the streets and on places outside the cities. In parallel to the killings, plundering and ? also occurred.

    Women and children were generally killed last: Dessalines did not specifically mention that the white women should be killed, and the soldiers were reportedly somewhat hesitant to do so. In the end, however, they were also put to death, though normally at a later stage of the massacre than the adult males. The argument for killing the women was that whites would not truly be eradicated if the white women were spared to give birth to new Frenchmen. Before his departure from a city, Dessalines would proclaim an amnesty for all the whites who had survived in hiding during the massacre. When these people left their hiding place, however, they were killed as well. Many whites were, however, hidden and smuggled out by sea by foreigners.

    In Port-au-Prince, only a few killings had occurred in the city despite the orders, but on the arrival of Dessalines in 18 March, the killings escalated. According to a British captain, about 800 people were killed in the city, while about 50 survived. In 18 April 1804, Dessalines arrived at Cap-Haïtien. Only a handful of killings had taken place there before his arrival, but the killings escalated to a massacre on the streets and outside the city after his arrival. As elsewhere, the majority of the women were initially not killed. Dessalines's advisers, however, pointed out that the white Haitians would not disappear if the women were left to give birth to white men, and after this, Dessalines gave order that the women should be killed as well, with the exception of those who agreed to marry non-white men. Contemporary sources claim that 3,000 people were killed in Cap-Haïtien, but this is considered unrealistic, as only 1,700 white people remained in the city after the French evacuated.

    One of the most notorious of the massacre participants was Jean Zombi, a mulatto resident of Port-au-Prince who was known for his brutality. One account describes how Zombi stopped a white man on the street, stripped him naked, and took him to the stair of the Presidential Palace, where he killed him with a dagger. Dessalines was reportedly among the spectators; he was said to be "horrified" by the episode. In Haitian Vodou tradition, the figure of Jean Zombi has become a prototype for the zombie.

    By the end of April 1804, some 3,000 to 5,000 people had been killed and the white Haitians were practically eradicated. Only three categories of white people, except foreigners, were selected out as exceptions and spared: the Polish soldiers who deserted from the French army; the little group of German colonists invited to North West Haiti before the revolution; and a group of medical doctors and professionals. Reportedly, also people with connections to officers in the Haitian army were spared, as well as the women who agreed to marry non-white men.