I  cannot believe it. A black person in America thanked the slave masters and slavery for bringing blacks to America, so that we could “get this ice and tattoos.”

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Soulja Boy

First, a history lesson – slave masters did not bring slaves to America. How do I know this? Well, I went to high school and learned basic history. Did Soulja Boy? (I refuse to research the young man, so someone else can educate me). Slave traders brought the slaves; slave masters did even more lengthy dehumanizing to their black slaves, finishing more than likely with their death.

So let’s be sure you know who you’re congratulating, my "nignorant" friend. Give a shout out to those who forcibly snatched men and women from their families. Give a holler to those who proudly auctioned off blacks to the slave masters. Riiiiiiiiiight. But that’s just a tip of the "nignorant" iceberg with Soulja Boy.

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John Torrey

But wait, there’s more! Toure, the established journalist  from BET who interviewed him, said that Soulja Boy looked dead serious when, in responding to the question  "Which historical figure do you most hate the most?" he gave thanks to the slave masters for bringing blacks to America. Toure also says that he gave the same questions, the Proust Questionnaire, to other celebrities to get their humanistic side, not their sensationalistic side.

Young Soulja Boy appears to have just a sensationalistic side. His “developed” human side is ensnared with the greed and desires of being a king – with all the ice and tattoos he can have. All I can say is that this is sheer nignorance. Thanks, Soulja Boy. You’ve set blacks back, roughly, 50 years.

John Torrey writes for The Maroon Tiger, the Morehouse College student newspaper, which originally published this article.

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