Salt Jones
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Let me explain a few things to you. First of all, no one living today, enslaved ANYONE! Slavery is DEAD. So is Jim Crow; it's OVER. By that logic, it's perfectly OK for any Native American to hate Whites, and for that matter, it's just as OK for any White Southerner to hate any and all Yankees (I can provide a lengthy and rather nauseating list of war crimes committed against Southern civilians by Union troops). It's fine to remember past wrongs; they're instructive on what NOT to do. On the other hand, using those wrongs as a rationale for hating today is useless; both perpetrators and victims have long since taken the dispute to a Higher Court, so end it, NOW!
Second, there is no entirely virtuous race, there is no entirely villainous race, there is no criminal race, there is no victim race, and there is no bigoted race. All those are characteristics of INDIVIDUALS, not entire racial groups; no race has a monopoly on either vice or virtue, and it is a lie to pretend otherwise.I've seen White posters behave badly here; I've seen Black posters behave badly here. I've seen Jews, and Christians, and Muslims, behave badly here. Not one of them represented an entire race, religion, or ethnicity; for good or ill, they each represented THEMSELVES. An individual says something disgraceful, point it out, but blanket statements and groupthink like you started this thread with only serve to promote hatred, bigotry, and mistrust. "Race" will continue to be a problem in this country, until we stop seeing people as members of a "race", and start seeing them as individual human beings. That starts with each and every one of us, INCLUDING YOU!
P.S Using racial slurs, even those aimed at your own race, is bigotry, too, so before you do too much finger-pointing and acting "holier than thou", take a look in the mirror. Whether you realize it or not, statements like yours come across as pandering and patronizing, which in itself is a form of bigotry, or if you prefer a more loaded word, "racism".
No blacks effected by Jim Crow are alive today? Save the colorblind bullshit for the naive. America was born of and will die from racism.
Want to keep hating over the past, Salt? Do you, really? You still want to be stuck in 1968, pretending nothing has changed, or ever will? A friend who told me years ago that the generations living then would all have to die off, before we could look at each other and see a person, not a color, was right. You, and your counterparts on the other side, keep it up; keep nursing those grudges, real and imagined, and that last sentence of yours may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. What do you want to do, exactly? Wind up killing each other over it? What good will THAT do anyone, of any race? It's either that, or find a way to live together, because neither your race nor mine is going anywhere, and we are not going to accomplish anything by hurling accusations, and pointing fingers, at one another. That gets done every day here; has it changed anyone's heart and mind? That "colorblind bullshit" may be for the naive, but at least it's a start at something better. You got a better idea? Then put it out there.
Colorblind is a waste of time. It ranks right up there with giving out trophies for participation or playing games where no one keeps score. American was born of racism and will die from racism, that's just the facts. I have no problem with it, it's just life.