Eric's wonder filled adventures(life)

A documentary of days and nights living as Eric Do not remove source on any of my posts, they are all my own creations,photos,videos and thoughts

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Being a man

Being a man means leaving your sword at home when you leave for your woman so she can protect herself, knowing her safety and well being is paramount in yours, carry my sword and stay alive and well, ill get by without it for you i promise. Written by northwestmadness Do not remove source

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Photo by northwestmadness

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Seahawks RB's

I cant believe people are forgetting thomas rawls already, like really christine micheal? Did everyone not see rawls last season? Everyone in seattle is crazy!!!!! Rawls in 2016!!!

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"Where were you the night of Friday, september 2nd sir?"

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Banks lake, Wa July 2016 photo taken by northwestmadness

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Weird abstract photo idea I randomly had!!

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Sandwich in the sky

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When does walking dead comeback on anyways?! Wtf?

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I feel like Rick Grimes

I feel like Rick grimes in the walkingdead show only difference is my crew is america, like we feel good and tough now but we just have no idea what is out there waiting for us

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Dirt roads,power lines and northwestmadness what can I say, my girls fine photography once again!!

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Big nasty ticks in NE washington!! Gross little bugs!!! None got me but they got close!!!

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here is a shot of the Hazetrain

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fumed 14mm slide by woodchuck

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Me

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When cat goes into psychopath mode like toothless when he gets controlled by that dude

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Here’s the issue I have with white guilt.

America isn’t the first country to have had slaves. Slavery and the idea of it goes back pretty far. Pretty much all civilizations have owned slaves - usually from other civilizations they overthrew.

The American slavery story is interesting because the slaves themselves were sold by their own people and traded like goods - a lot of them went to America.

I’m not praising slavery or saying it was ethical, I’m saying it wasn’t considered abnormal back then. It was cheap labor, so Americans took the opportunity. Racism evolved from it.

It’s unfair to blame white people and tell them to feel guilty because of something that happened a lot a long time ago. People understand new ethics now. Slavery has been abolished. No need to feel guilty.

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Okay: 1. You saying all of this, but not giving any numbers. What percentage of blacks sold out their own people? How long did it take for America to abolish this? What other countries enslaved other civilizations and when did they stop? 2. This is mostly opinionated saying how blacks treated each other like traded goods. 3. A lot of us who is bringing up the issue of slavery do not want white people to feel guilty. We just want them to acknowledge the advantage they have always had over minority groups like blacks. 4. And slavery did end, but did racism go along with it? No it did not. Additionally, when slavery ended, many blacks had to stay on the plantations because they couldn’t go get an education without being punished for it. 5. The primary goal of the whites was not cheap labor, that’s what it evolved to. The primary goal was the expand white knowledge and religion (Christianity) and take raw materials back to Europe. From that, they decided us blacks could be used for cheap labor since they believed they were doing us a favor (the white man’s burden). That’s where white superiority derived from.

I disagree with what you’re saying because you misunderstand the purpose of the BLM movement.

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I’m just going to give you a few things to look at.

http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/41431

http://africa.unc.edu/outreach/ASA/slavery_and_trade.pdf

I never said racism was over, but blaming all white people for racism isn’t going to help anything.

Black Lives Matter is a hate group.

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I was gonna ignore this until you went out of your way to post links defending your “Africans enslaved people too!” argument, and I couldn’t help but address this nonsense of an argument that already has been responded to over a thousand times to assuage their sense of guilt over the history of Transatlantic slave trade.

Before I get into addressing slavery, I just wanna say this: We don’t really care for white guilt. We don’t want your guilt. Nobody is asking for your guilt. What we want is for you to see and address the issues that affect us purely because of the social disadvantages that black people face. You just sitting there and feeling guilty does not in any way help challenge racism either. It is literally less than nothing. When you say this: “I never said racism was over, but blaming all white people for racism isn’t going to help anything.”, you are misinterpreting the goals of an ongoing civil rights battle, and it comes off as you attempting absolve yourself of any responsibility of challenging the racism in your society, including those that you can see happening in your day-to-day life. It comes off as “not my problem, I don’t like you bringing it up all the time”. And if that’s the case, then I can only say “You know what? Fine.” You’re free to do nothing about it. But don’t then turn around and complain to us over your guilt when shit starts happening to us, we start talking about it loudly enough to distract your routine decision of doing nothing about it. We don’t care. And we honestly don’t have the time for it.

Now back to the Transatlantic slave trade: Yes, many cultures across the planet have had slavery in one form or another. Yes, the continent of Africa had many kingdoms and societies which had slaves. And yes, many of those same kingdoms and societies sold slaves to Europeans, and profited out of them. No one is disputing this. But those who had the power, the influence, and the ability to sell slaves were the tribal rulers, chiefs, or even wealthy merchants of the regions the Europeans encountered. More often than not, people from enemy tribes who side lost in the tribal wars that occured were sold by those rulers to European men. The people that were sold by those chiefs were not considered as their people, but people from enemy tribes/nations. There was very little concept of even “blackness” as we now know it. They were not theirs, so they didn’t care what happened to them, and so, they were sold. As the demand for slaves increased from Europeans and Arabs, so too did the tribal wars, and of course, the selling of slaves. Slavery is inexcusable, and it is true that many African tribal leaders sold off slaves to Europeans, it is still a tip in the iceberg compared to the number of Africans that were forcibly migrated who were not already slaves before they were captured. The “Africans had slaves too” argument is nothing more than a verbal sleight-of-hand: a misdirection designed to take away attention from the elephant in the room: That the transatlantic slave trade was unique in its brutality, that it was industrial inhumanity on an unprecedented scale, and that the repercussions of the slave trade are still being felt today.

The United States, in particular, was created on the principles of equality “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”, yet saw fit to exempt African slaves from experiencing these principles for nearly 90 years, and lagged behind even the empire which it broke way from when it came to slaves. Even as the country was made prosperous of their labor, slaves “graduated” from being property to second-class citizens, and because the offspring of the slavery: the system of white supremacy endured and continues to endure, it took over a century of segregation, disenfranchisement and violence directed towards blacks for the United States government to even begin to properly address the disparity of rights enjoyed by whites and blacks. This is not something that is easily swept under the rug with “Whoops, my bad. Didn’t know that stuff actually upset you guys. Let bygones be bygones?”, and it is not something to easily presume that because a lot more people now find slavery to be morally wrong, that somehow race relations is not a serious ongoing issue. This is dangerously naive nonsense, and it is really rich for you to stand on your pedestal and tell blacks to get over it.

To make the argument that “Africans were enslaving people too” is to misrepresent the history and the horrors of the Transatlantic slave trade. Any attempt to make a moral equivalence between the slavery that occured in the African continent with the Transatlantic slave trade is nothing short of intellectual dishonesty, at the very least. It is tantamount to historical revisionism and even denialism. It diminishes and willfully ignores the suffering of 12-15 million Africans torn from their societies, their homes, their tribes and their families, never to see them again (which at least in Africa, there was a much, much greater chance of being reunited) over the course of four centuries: a trade which had permananetly affected the cultural and ethnic makeup of an entire continent - and why is it done? Because it’s uncomfortable to directly adress the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade.  Nobody argues that the Holocaust was just “Europeans killing each other”, even though the six million Jews that died as a result of the genocide programs by Nazi Germany were Europeans. Nobody (or at least, no one sensible and with their head screwed on) uses the argument that before the settlers arrived in the Americas “The Indians were already killing each other”, because it willfully ignores that Native Americans had different tribes, different nations, and different histories, and does not address that a series of violent campaigns with the settlers led to the devastation of the Native American population. But it’s okay this argument used, and considered acceptable to use, with respect to the Transatlantic slave trade, because you know, the entire continent of Africa must have a monolithic culture and history, and not have independent nations and tribes of anything.

Next, Black Lives Matter: Tell me, why is bringing to attention that the relationship between black people and law enforcement creates violent confrontations in which members of the former end up dead, spreading hate? Why does taking action against the fatal instances of police brutality, most of which won’t even result in the perpetrating officer(s)  being charged, and marching, the actions of a hate group? Why does this movement warrant a categorization reserved for groups such as the KKK and the NOI?

Yes, there is a worthwhile discussion to be had about the tactics that Black Lives Matter use in their protests, and if you want to have that discussion, it can happen, but to label them a hate group is just dishonest. They don’t target a specific group of people and harass them - which is what hate groups do. Their decentralised organization has the potential to become detrimental, particularly when it comes to the message put forth, and how much it deviates from the stances of the movement ‘founders’ - but the aims of Black Lives Matter are very simple:

To take action against the systemic police brutality towards the black community.

To take action against the disproportionate number of black people in prison, and the resulting damage mass incarceration of African-Americans has on their communities.

Which of the aims above indicate that they are spreading hate? If anyone told you any different from the aims that I listed above, then you’ve been misinformed. It’s worth pointing out, however, that BLM are not in the business of making people feel comfortable. And it’s up to you and other obervers what they do about that feeling of discomfort: You can either overreact or adopt retrograde stances, or you use it to decide on challenging institutional racism.

Maybe for you this is all tumblr arguments, but for some of us, this is real shit. Having said that, if you genuinely care about intellectual integrity, or the cause of equality, then I would strongly suggest that you actually learn extensively about the matters discussed before speaking on them.

Oh, and here, a reading list that you use as a good starting point:

Understanding Slavery

Slavery In Africa

Crommunist: “But black people had slaves too!”

Want To Help End Systemic Racism? First Drop The White Guilt

The New Yorker - The Matter Of Black Lives

The Social And Moral Cost Of Mass Incarceration In African-American Communities (Roberts, 2004)

The Atlantic: A Conversation About Black Lives Matter And Bernie Sanders

I Was A Civil Rights Leader In The 1960s. But It’s Hard For Me To Get Behind Black Lives Matter

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As a white person in America, it’s not that I feel “guilty” it’s more along the lines of shame.

I’m ashamed that my country was built on the backs of slaves and the graves of Native Americans. I’m ashamed of what my ancestors did to those men, women, and children.

I can’t fix what they did. But I can do my part to speak up against the obvious injustices that are still running rampant. Black Lives Matter is a necessity. This new age civil rights movement is a necessity. How dare you question what you know nothing about. We’re white people, we’re not allowed to decide how poc feel about how they’re treated by white people. Especially when we have historical proof of us literally murdering and enslaving them in mass numbers.

My little brother is 16 and mixed. He was once questioned for 3 hours without contacting his parents because he “resembled” a 30 year old robbery suspect while riding his bike at a park. My sister and I refuse to buy him the BB gun he keeps asking for because I am scared to death he’ll be the Tamir Rice. My own cousin called the cops on him for being “menacing” while walking the dog at my grandparents.

If you can’t open your heart and your mind in order to save the lives of innocent people, then take a seat. I guess the apple didn’t fall too far from the racist tree.

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People people people !!!!! Can't you see that it's no longer about color of skin? It's about financial status, things like racism in 2016 are really just propagated distractions!!! Everyone needs to forget about yesterday and think about tomorrow!!!! White or black you ain't gonna have a true "life, liberty or a pursuit to happiness" until you recognize the media distractions are there to haunt your progressive brain. Seriously how has the masses not been able to see this as I have? My dad told me when I was younger circa 1993, that slavery was a better deal than what we had now. Basically saying he would rather be a slave. I thought he was crazy but fast forward to now and I agree. Slaves didn't have to pay rent,car insurance,health care, or education. I pay 120 dollars for car insurance, 571 for rent, 100 for utilities, and 80 for phone, bringing in a total of 871 dollars bills not counting food,gas or home and auto maintenance. I make 19.71 an hour and it took me five years of full time hours to get that wage. I'm now topped out and no more room to earn more. Side note everyone thinks it's awesome how much I make an hour, fucking idiots, go figure!!! I get an average of 24 hours a week because corporations now don't want "full-time" heavy staff. So some math for all you smarty pants out there: 24hours •19.71=473.04 per week before taxes we will say 373 after taxes. Sooooo 373• 4 weeks in month= 1492.00, so every month I make 1492.00 -871.00in bills= leaves me 621 dollars a month for food, gas, oil changes, any repairs on auto and to save. Say I spend 50 a week on food that's 200 dollars a month bringing the 621 down to 421. No money for life(kids), no money for liberty(thrift shops don't liberate in 2016's consumer society they probably do the opposite to a humans confidence), no money to pursuit happiness that's for sure. If I saved that 421 every month I could save 5,052 a year taking me ten years to come up with 50,520 dollars which would be enough to put a down payment on a house but will your monthly income cover the mortgage after purchase? Have you also considered what kind of inflation has occurred in your ten years of saving? Drop the distractions and start paying attention to the world around you, humans are terrible to other humans it's been that way since our existence, obviously we hate each other but share the same goals for our environment, stop pretending like changing social views is gonna change our lives, change laws change prices change wages and the hate will all start to diminish. Everyone is pointing fingers at the wrong people we can only control what we can control and that is ourselves so stop pointing the finger unless you are looking at yourself via reflections. I honestly know that it's up to the masses to wake up and smell that the roses are no longer present!! Malcolm x and other extremely intelligent, kind and organized men of all colors and creeds have spoke to us all about knowledge and understanding. They tried to tell their audiences that social issues would be presented to them for the sole purpose of dividing their unity and causing upheaval to organization and momentum. This 2016 human rights stuff reminds me of all that!!! I have a feeling the great minds that tried to educate us to the evils of institutionalism and to be weary of corruption scams are rolling around in their graves!! Civil rights in 2016 are such a distraction from what is actually occurring!!! Pretty sure we all could use more life liberty and honestly I think their is a lot of people who would like to be happy why do we have to "pursuit", are we not born happy, is it not the dumb things we "want" that get in the way? You guys be free Americans and blog about black lives matter and cops and blah blah it just breaks my heart that majority of you will never be truly free and that you will always follow suit never knowing how happy and fun it is to go naked. Wtf are we still talking about slavery? All though this gives me hope for humans in 3016 because if we follow suit or pattern then 3016 will be the year we talk about wage disparity and how it has affected the mental health of our whole country making us overweight,anxious,depressed, bipolar, diabetic and unintelligent beings with no attention span. But hey it's not all bad soon we will have an awesome new human as president and they mean so well all their lives they wanted to be in charge of us and now one of there dreams is about to come true!!! Adidas did not lie impossible is nothing and you can do whatever your little heart desires!!! A new game of thrones episode will play tomorrow and we have nba playoffs to make us feel connected, any those players work soooo hard it's motivating!!! It makes me want to really go fight through my carpal tunnel and really own that 19.71 wage rate!! Those players with their happy little kids, I wish my friends kids were as happy! Maybe one day their mommies and daddies will be able to go to sleep knowing that their kids never have to worry about a roof or meal. Future matters.

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Wolf track in Washington state found while turkey hunting!!! Ahhhhh yikes you a big pooch!!!!!