Airplanes Are Just Like Slave Ships. Except They’re Not. At All.
So Gawker talked about this article that came out about some dude who considers himself an expert on things for smart people. Stuff like cultural anthropology. Or a Jeff Foxworthy standup routine. You know? Things that us regular folks scratch our heads at. Anywho, the dude goes on to say how he realized that airplanes are like slave ships (article is HERE).
*blinks slowly* O___O
Ummm…
Theo, that is the DUMBEST thing I've ever heard!
I don’t want to trivialize the inhumane horrors that African slaves endured on slave ships (above) destined for the Americas. But after a recent airplane trip, sitting tightly next to my neighbor in steerage seats, I feel the discomfort and pain endemic to the current air experience has certain curious similarities.
Ever notice how similar the seating plans of airplanes resemble the more horrific layout (yet efficient design of those slave ships)? Could airplane designers be unconsciously influenced by them?
Sir, please have a “Fool SADDOWN” Gift Basket with a “Shut the Hell Up” Candle Set thrown in for good measure. You’ve clearly lost your good mind to compare an aircraft to the vessel used to carry millions of folks from Africa to imprisonment in America and around the globe. Sure they have the same shape but that’s about it.
I don’t care HOW cramped up your legs are in economy class (yes I know your knees almost touch your chest) or how annoying it is that the little boy behind you keeps kicking your chair (meanmug his mama to tell him to stop). I highly doubt that it is anything remotely as annoying as being chained up to 500 other people and kept in a vertical position for months at a time.
Yes, I know the toilets on airplanes are insufferably small and you have to maneuver to get in an out. BUT at least you can go piss. On slave ships, the toilet was where you laid. Don’t sit up there talmbout airplanes are just like slave ships.
Kunta Kinte ain’t get whipped by Massa for you to trivialize his journey across that yonder Middle Passage. HE AIN’T!
Folks always tryna compare some of their raggedy struggle to slavery. PEOPLE WERE CONSIDERED CATTLE! Folks were raped for sport. We got high blood pressure from all the salt water. You can’t beat that struggle! Stop trying. Sure you might feel like cattle when traveling in a crowded airplane, but that’s only for 2-14 hours. Try 200 years! SADDOWN!
Sir, please get out the paint and go get some business. Just dumb. (-___-)
Ennehweighs, whatcha’ll think? Do you feel the pain of 1,000 negros when you fly?
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I’m gonna go on record & say, that this just HAD to be a white man who said this, huh?! -__-
& hell no, I don’t feel the pain of thousands of slaves when I fly. On an airplane tho?! Where I have a CHOICE to fly or not? & where they serve peanuts & beverages & such?! Where I can take luggage & what not?! HELL NAW!
WhoEVER this clown was is a downright idiot. smdh.
Idiot.
Gurl yeah. You know it was. He is an idiot indeed. Some folks don’t need platforms to spew their bullsh*t.
You know, it is ignorant mf-ers like this that make me wish there was a slavery bootcamp. For all the Don Imus’ Dr. Lauras, the guy who played Kramer on Seinfeld and whoever else made light of slavery, they should be sentenced to 1 whole year in slavery bootcamp. If only such a thing existed to give a true and authentic experience of what the slaves endured,complete with masters, overseers, daily whippings and all kinds of brutality. Maybe then whites would finally be aware of the effect that slavery had globally and that they are still reaping the benefits from it. Because white folks are bound and determined to act as if slavery was just a mildy uncomfortable and overall unpleasant experience. As if slavery was similar to getting a root canal.
But the sad part is that even if there was such a thing as a slavery boot camp. White folks will still find a way to say they suffered more. As if their negative experience was an obstacle course in the oppression olympics. SMH…You are damned if you do and damned if yoou don’t when it comes to dealing with white folks.
A slavery bootcamp??? LAWDDD people would never let that exist. That’s TOO real!
I don’t feel the pain of the Negro struggle when I fly. Folks stay trying to lessen the slave trade. Look, the shyt wasn’t like anything we have today. Nothing! Not flying! Not getting stuck in a crowded elevator (which I did once and contemplated suicide within the first three minutes)!
OMG!!! Getting stuck in an elevator. I’d bust out a *wall slide* down all 4 walls. iCAN’T!!!
I’m white, I read the article you are talking and I thought it was bullshit too. People will always try to downplay things like slavery, and the Holocaust and all forms of racism against others. But it’s only certain people. To say all white people in an unfair characterization.
I’m glad you thought it was bullshit. But I don’t think I said all white people downplay slavery. In fact, I’m pretty sure I didn’t.
No, no not you, sorry I meant to reply to bronxgirl
Oh ok! Gotcha!
Leane get over yourself. I didn’t say all white folks either. You are focusing and nitpicking on issues where none exist. Instead choose to discuss the subject at hand. We were discussing someone trying to assert similarities between airplanes and slavery. As well as the overall minimizing of slavery as part of American History. People like yourself who focus more on the translating sentences literally where no translation is needed often end up shifting the focus away from the main topic thereby derailing the discussion completely. If that is your intention then please take it up on the site where the article was originally printed because it seems that no one is interested in having a real discussion there either. If that is not to your liking then by all means have a seat.
Muggles just be making incorrigible comparisons….. FUCK it must be nice being white, bright and everything gah damn right. I swear I just heard Harriet Tubman cuss from a bush on the wayside as I made my way to work. Kizzy and nem toiled on the plantation all day for this man?
FUCK SCHOOL
LMAO!!! Harriet is somewhere PISSED that she never got to fly in an airplane and folks wanna compare her struggle w/ their travel woes. WOMP!
This guy is stupid and offensive. Now…even though the subject matter is serious, is it okay that I laughed EXTREMELY loud at “Theo, that is the DUMBEST thing I’ve ever heard!”????
LOL yes it is perfectly okay.
I don’t know where this guy thought these two modes of transportation are apples to apples. It’s more like apples to iron maidens.
He actually said “sitting tightly next to my neighbor in steerage seats”…he referred to his coach/economy class seat as “steerage”, which is a phrase more commonly used when it comes to traveling by ship. He’ll have to let me know if Kunta had the option to upgrade to business class when he was stuffed beneath the ship wading in his own filth. Or maybe he thought that discussion went something like:
Ship Overseer: Mr. Kinte, I know you’ve complained about the cramped quarters and smell but I’m sorry, if you wanted better accommodations you would have to pay for it at the time you purchased your ticket.
Kunta: You kidnapped me from my homeland, what the hell are you talking about?
Ship Overseer: That’s correct, I just meant you would have had to have been white and not from Africa when we stole you. I’m sorry if we didn’t make that clearer.
LMAOOOOOOOOO @ the convo betwixt Kunta & Massa. Kunta couldn’t order a nightcap in the Middle Passage. He wasn’t given a blanket to keep his feet warm. Chile… some folks…
I can just see him sipping his gingerale, Watching reruns of ‘King of queens’ on the television set, while trying to complete the crossword puzzle in the back of his complimentary magazine, thinking to himself “damn, this is kind of what the slave trade was like…How dare you, American Airlines! I shall write an article on this new finding.” (-__-)
Someone needs to drink all tall, cold glass of sityoazzdown. He, unlike slaves, have the option of paying for first class seats. It’s not like he’s in the luggage compartment, which STILL wouldn’t be a valid comparison because it would still be his choice *waits for PETA to call pets in the luggage compartment slavery*
SO now this idiot compares a Boeing 747-400 seating layout to the layout of a SLAVE SHIP….as an aviation enthusiast, this is a slap in the face to me, an i would be so totally willing to kick his ass thoroughly, then immediately proceed to torture him….how infuriating….i hope Boeing gets to him before i do!!!
Yeah this was ridiculous. The only comparison if any is that both the designs above are meant to cram as many human beings into a small space as possible—