Originally posted by jd140
Originally posted by HunkaHunka
Originally posted by Retseh
We have allowed black racism to go unchecked, while we grind even the slightest hint of white racism into the dirt.
We allowed this to happen.
You mean by enslaving thousands of Africans while at the same time claiming that "all men are created equal"?
I think you are right...
"We" didn't enslave anyone, people a few hundred years ago did and now they are dead and gone.
I swear I am tired of being accused of owning slaves.
It's a good lesson for the future though...
Slavery has long term negative effects on a society, because of the fact that even if it is ever made illegal, it will stay with you like a cancer
which can never be removed.
Regardless of fault or blame, you can't deny the fact that this is what propels this.
The same motivation has moved people to a sense of justification for their actions throughout history. Hebrews, Gauls, etc have all seen the previous
enslavement of their forefathers as justification for war and mass slaughter of "the other".
We, didn't do it, but America did, and Britain didn't help any by oppressing the colonies, because it just made the crap roll down hill faster.
And religion is just as much to blame... Read Joshua... see how it was "fine" to exterminate an entire city, women, children, men, even the animals
because they were "morally justified"? What did Jericho ever do to the Hebrews? Not a Damned thing... yet we push this crap in our society every
sunday, and it leads to this...
[edit on 9-7-2009 by HunkaHunka]