Gunny
Gold Member
Man, I've been waiting for a long time for somebody to open that door.
First, my ancestors were part of the group that fought and died to free slaves and I resent being tied to a small group of fucking rich people who embodied the slavery of any man, woman, or child.
Second, it's time to stop holding anybody accountable for those who practiced genocide or slavery. THEYRE ALL DEAD.
Third, WE, none of us, are responsible for the actions of our ancestors. If we were then most of us who are forever linked to European ancestry have a same or similar claim as the current-day claimants of slavery have, we just have to go back further in history to find them.
The point is: There is no mess. The mess of which you speak was cleaned up many years ago, long before any of us were born. Its time to get over it. Thats not to say forget it, just quit fucking living it. Its over. Today, in America, we hunt down people who enslave others and jail them. We have learned from the mistakes of history and, like the Holocaust, we will make sure it never happens again.
Is there prejudice and racism in the world? Of course there is and there probably will be until the end of days. Ignorance can be traced all the way back to that bitch who plucked the apple from the tree, so the story goes.
The bottom line, for me, is that I owe nobody anything, other than to acknowledge that history happened as it has been recorded.
Fuckin' A.