I am sorry I cheated on my girlfriend in high school...I'm 50 years old now - I should be able to live without the guilt.
ps...I think if anything, considering that the African blacks sold the African black slaves to us, and the state of Africa over the past 100 years, I'm far more inclined to try to undo the damage we did to the American Indian...ya know, Manifest Destiny, and all...
What a strange post, Irish!
Well in any case I disagree with you about the wheelchair ramps (although there should be exemptions for very small businesses perhaps) and remind you that the great slave wholesalers were in fact Arabs.
And who sold to the wholesalers? Much more often than not, warring black chieftains or the chieftains themselves.
This by way of mentioning that with few exceptions, the American “First People” were also prone to slaughter and sell each other into slavery. You think they learned warfare from fighting the “White Man?”
White Guilt is a very real thing, but as for myself I am tired of it. My ancestors were slaughtered in Europe. We never had slaves. I am smart enough to know that only a tiny percentage of CSA soldiers came from families that had anything at all to do with slaves. Every time somebody tries to get me to ride a Trail of Tears or Underground Railroad I feel like puking. I am F’n sick of it.
But as for your girlfriend, maybe you two should talk.