12-08-2011, 01:18 PM
(12-08-2011, 12:47 PM)Middle Finger Wrote: I understand all that, and how the solution is not to just excuse bad behavior. That being said, one can still be a racist. One can accomplish that by going out of their way to play down the real, deep, long-term negatives that could naturally arise as a a byproduct of the wholesale and systematic poor treatment of certain groups from every angle over such a long period of time. One can be a racist by acting as if it this bad behavior is all just some inherent flaw with that group due to skin color, instead of looking comprehensively at everything that went into it.
I guess that explains why the Irish,the orientals " the chinese specifically",the Mexicans and every other nationality are all fucked up.
The Romans, The English, the native americans all took slaves many of them were enslaved longer and in much more brutal circumstances than the Blacks.
History is cool, but only if what you call history is accurate.
what you have done here is single out one group above others who suffered such fates but were able to achieve beyond it.
At some point in the future it becomes a personal failure which is not associated with the past.
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