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Originally Posted by chrissij
to go on a fact finding mission. I can't say I paid close attention in class.  ) It has been said, by someone wise, that if we don't acknowledge our history, and learn from it, that we are doomed to repeat it. Conversely, and this is my opinion, allowing history to affect the present, can perpetuate those faults and misdeeds. To those individuals who are still waiting for an apology for historic misdeeds, stop "listening" and start "looking" for that apology. Apologies have been made, |
History will always effect our present. it is only by studing it in the present can we make a better future and a much different history for that future. Also when you say stop listening and start looking but you forgot to mention that America has never never apologised for its mistreatment of blacks if we are to move forward then america has to heal those wounds.
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It is my opinion that if a person is willing to label themselves, that person has acquiesced to being labeled by others. I'm a white, American citizen of questionable heritage. I believe a portion of my ancestry "became white" when the "one drop rule" was established. I have a Choctaw ancestor on the Dawe's list. Who cares? Genealogy and heritage are fun and interesting hobbies, but they don't define us. The only label we should be willing to accept is "human", and we should strive to qualify that label with adjectives like "honest", "honorable", "dependable", and "kind".
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america has 52 states, most americans identify with themselves as either a newyorker,im from jersey , or from chicago, but hardly ever do i hear the name im american we represent our state first. This is not to say that this is a bad thing but if we can do this then what is the problem with identifing as each other as a race? I agree our lable should be human and even as human as we are we have differences but that should not put any one above another.It should be equal white, black it should be equal, but it is not.
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Originally Posted by bododie
Nash, I agree with you in part. I think maybe we should rewrite the history of this country. Of course, included in that rewrite we will need to include the evidence that Martin Luther King plagiarized a great deal of what you think are the words of a great leader. If not for who he was to blacks, (sorry I don't feel that an AMERICAN should feel the need for a hypen), his degree would have been revoked, and if he had been white, it definitely would have been. Shall we include this episode in the "real" American history?
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Ive never mentioned MLK but since you did tell me why white america wanted him dead?? Ive even heard rumours that hey was gay, when ever a black leader becomes succesful there is always a white person or persons who are the play devils advocate and try to bring them down.Tell me why this information that you have was not made public during MLK lifetime. You wait till the man is dead to talk shit about him, more and more your statments sound like a kkk clan member.The anger for black leaders is comming through your posts, and you say that you are a history teacher??
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Originally Posted by Doctor Webley
Oh My God! Learn your history.
100,000's of Blacks were not persecuted by the Germans! So if you're going to make up your own version of history, do it in a slightly belivable way.
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The amount of blacks killied in the german can be disputed however who talked about them no one. black germans unlike the Jews recieved no war reparations because their german citizenship was revoked.
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Large amounts of Blacks are not advanicig in life, not because of slavery, but am inferiority complex. My great-grandparents came to America with nothing but drive and determination.
And they now acomplished in less than 40 years what you say the entire Black race could not accomplish in 200.
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go back 40 years your great grandparents were in a better position than blacks weve only had 38 years of no legal segregation so your great grand parents were able to find work faster than a black couple get more benifits than a black couples and how the fuck could the black race accomplish anything under slavery and then when they was freed laws set in place to hold them back??
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There is obviously something else at play.
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there sure is