JVoV -> RE: Unreasonable? (12/18/2015 12:28:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Greta75 quote:
Looking to past racism will not solve today’s problem in my opinion Yup, this "You owe us" mentality has to stop! Blaming new generation of white folks for what happened to old generation of white folks did in the past is just like if us Chinese continually condemning the new generation of Japanese for the rest of our lives too for what they did to us in the past. I had this black american explain to me, that it's unfair to compare like that, because no race in this universe in history has suffered as terrible from the slavery as the black folks of America. But I said to him, perhaps he didn't really go through every single Asian country history where slavery was rampant in the past too, and they weren't humane Masters, Asians are cruel people, and till today, some modern slaves exists in loopholes. And I mean slave in a way where you completely own someone and they have zero rights. But if every ethnicity who was enslaved gonna keep going on and on about it as the reason for their every future generation difficulties. Then the cycle will never end, there will not be progress. I said to him, you are not a slave now. You were never born a slave. The current white people have no interest in enslaving you. You have by your own parents hard work and your own hard work, got you well educated and a good job that pays you well. This dude is actually doing well with a Masters making 100k per annum, or so he claims to me. Why still keep blaming slavery as the reason for causing his community to be struggling? It puzzles me even more because he made it through sheer hard work, his proof himself that it's possible for them now. He said because the atrocities was so bad, that it must never be forgotten. They should be reminded of it over and over again forever. Like, seriously..., I don't get it, what is the purpose of that! And he said the white men has not done enough to compensate what they have done to us. A few years back, there was a series or miniseries about black celebrities checking their DNA to trace their lineage, through the plantations and back to Africa. One of them had greatgreathowevermanygreat grandparents from the plantation my family owned near Tampa. But she seems to be doing OK for herself.
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