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In reply to the discussion: Dear Whiny White People: Great rant from a Native American Facebook friend [View all]Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)I have found that it is best to keep it simple for some around here due to short attention spans. Most do not take the time to research any given subject. To read a complete dissertation would be asking a lot of the average person here. Many peoples have been subjugated through out world history. Many are not even aware of where the the term Slave comes from. Here is a hint, think white people, drop the e at the end of slave, that leaves Slav. To claim that only one group of peoples have suffered atrocities more so than any other is very narrow minded, lacking of knowledge and just plain wrong.
[Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclvus, from Sclvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in the early Middle Ages). See Slav.]
http://foreigndispatches.typepad.com/dispatches/2004/10/slav_an_etymolo.html
Word History: The derivation of the word slave encapsulates a bit of European history and explains why the two words slaves and Slavs are so similar; they are, in fact, historically identical. The word slave first appears in English around 1290, spelled sclave. The spelling is based on Old French esclave from Medieval Latin sclavus, "Slav, slave," first recorded around 800. Sclavus comes from Byzantine Greek sklabos (pronounced sklävs) "Slav," which appears around 580. Sklavos approximates the Slavs' own name for themselves, the Slovnci, surviving in English Slovene and Slovenian. The spelling of English slave, closer to its original Slavic form, first appears in English in 1538. Slavs became slaves around the beginning of the ninth century when the Holy Roman Empire tried to stabilize a German-Slav frontier. By the 12th century stabilization had given way to wars of expansion and extermination that did not end until the Poles crushed the Teutonic Knights at Grunwald in 1410. · As far as the Slavs' own self-designation goes, its meaning is, understandably, better than "slave"; it comes from the Indo-European root *kleu-, whose basic meaning is "to hear" and occurs in many derivatives meaning "renown, fame." The Slavs are thus "the famous people." Slavic names ending in -slav incorporate the same word, such as Czech Bohu-slav, "God's fame," Russian Msti-slav, "vengeful fame," and Polish Stani-slaw, "famous for withstanding (enemies)."
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slave
I will leave you with one last quote....
"You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.
To have come to this board and make a statement in the original OP is insulting many WHITES, that are not not hate filled people was bad form at best. I stole this pic from another recent post, lest we forget that we are all human beings, that need to learn to coexist in a world WITHOUT the kind of hate displayed by this OP who has yet come back and explain THEIR own feelings and thoughts. Were you the original poster under a different pseudonym? Why keep defending someone when you can not speak from where their mind set is at?
Edited to add this......