Originally posted by 27jd
reply to post by HunkaHunka
You seem kinda gullible man, and you also seem to fall all over yourself to kiss the butts of other races and apologize for your whiteness. Does your
wife make you feel guilty or something? Not trying to be offensive, just curious as to why you seem to be racist against yourself...
Excuse me? I fall all over myself to attempt to understand the other, and to better understand myself.
What did I ever say which made you think I was racist against myself?
First let's clear things up here. My folks on my fathers side came over from Yorkshire England in 1850 and settled in Illinois where they worked
the railroad.
My folks from my mothers side came over in the early 1900's and were bootleggers.
So no, I don't have any "white guilt", as it's referred to. What I do have is an understanding of how society conditions us all to believe that
the cause of our ills lay outside of ourself.
We are responsible for the majority of our own subjective experience. No one can ever change that. If you are black, the white man ain't the
problem. If you are white, the black man ain't the problem. No matter who you are... the problem, if you have one, is staring at you in the
Mirror.
Do I chastise America for ever allowing slavery in the form it took 250 years ago to touch the shores of this land while at the same time declaring
that all men are created equal? Yes I do. Why?
Because any idiot can see what pissing off a people or a race of people has as its ramifications. They didn't see this, because as the idiots they
were, they were gullible enough to think that Africans were somehow not people. They didn't have the foresight to see the problems they were setting
up for their great grandchildren.
If America had never let this greatest of tragedies occur on it's own shores, there would be not even the slightest hint of a moral justification in
the minds of these kids.
Granted.. it wasn't America who brought the slaves over. It was the British Colonies who used slaves. But once the framers of our constitution
declared all men to be created equal, except for the slaves, they crossed the Rubicon. There was no going back.
I understand the thinking that went into that, but it was because of them that we have not only the great things in our country today, but also some
of the wretched things.
If you somehow think that admonishing the framers of our constitution for this oversight is somehow racist against myself, you are a lunatic.