I just got thru reading 'The Confessions Of Nat Turner', who else has read this book??? I was just wondering what you thought of it, and your perspective...

It was A great book, and I defo felt pain and sympathy for Him and another Black person in them times...I was discusted andof the treatment they received...  It was disgusting and unimaginable how White people acted and how they treated Black people like animals back then.. Literally... I was just shocked, at the ignorance of white people, them thinking that they where superior back then to the Black race... So I could defo understand the Black Slaves revolting and fighting back slaying their oppressors, and to Be honest I agree with it, slaying the guilty and giving them A taste of their own medicine....

Jul 2, 2009 -- 4:19PM, Water Ur Seeds wrote:

Guess no1 has read the book then??? Suggest people go and out and read it lol

good summary

i will def give it a read props

Jul 2, 2009 -- 4:19PM, Water Ur Seeds wrote:

Guess no1 has read the book then??? Suggest people go and out and read it lol

I read it. Nathaniel was on a another level. He was self taught and he didn't fear the slavemaster. That is what they call an uppity negro. Any black man with a spirit like that always seems arrogant to the master because he refuses to bow down.  I think like Denmark Vescey, harriet Tubman, and others you have to have a higher sense of self to do something like that.   

Jul 3, 2009 -- 1:13PM, Uncle_Diesel wrote:

Jul 2, 2009 -- 4:19PM, Water Ur Seeds wrote:

Guess no1 has read the book then??? Suggest people go and out and read it lol

I read it. Nathaniel was on a another level. He was self taught and he didn't fear the slavemaster. That is what they call an uppity negro. Any black man with a spirit like that always seems arrogant to the master because he refuses to bow down.  I think like Denmark Vescey, harriet Tubman, and others you have to have a higher sense of self to do something like that.   

Dunno man, He said He perseaved his first Master Ben as the closet thing to Jesus... He really envied Him, and coz He lived in the house looked down at the field negros... He refused to talk to them etc... He also didnt like black women... Agreed tho, dude was on whole nother level lol I got major respect for alot of what He done

Jul 3, 2009 -- 3:55PM, Water Ur Seeds wrote:

Jul 3, 2009 -- 2:16PM, President of the Posters of the IC Union wrote:

t/s i read the book and i dont remember anything hollerin how he was gay or any of that other shit.  i could be mistaken but thats what i remember.  and nat killing innocent white people is an oxymoron.  none of them honkies where innocent.  if they reaped the rewards of slavery then they were meant to be killed.  hell i feel like nat and all those hunkeys would of been dead too.

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Riiiiiight, so 6months old babys deserved to Be decapitated... and A a young pre teen girl who looked up to Him and bragged about what A great, friendly intelligent man He was deserved to Be raped and killed??? You got A fucked up head if you think thats justified... I agree with the slave masters and the people who mistreated them being killed, but like I said, innocent girls and babys is a no no to Me... Yeh He jacked off and got jacked off by his friend... I forgot his name now.... 

As you sow so shall you reap. Unfortunately, we are sometimes rewarding by what our fathers have done. You  act a fool in the streets, sometimes your family catches it. That is real talk.  I don't remember any where he said that they raped children. But reality is those children would have grown to be like their fathers. Slavery wasn't a few years it was a multigenerational institution. Some of those women used to nurse those children from their breast only to turn around and be sold, beaten, or raped by the same boys they nursed. Yeah their children may not have deserved it but did the children of slaves deserve to separated from their parents.? Sold down the river, Their mothers raped and fathers killed?

That isolated incident is nothing compared to what Black children faced on a daily basis. So while  I can empathize, let's put this in perspective and not shed Uncle Ruckus tears when our ancestors where going through this on a wider, much longer, more intense scale.