Posted on 11/22/2002 7:25:25 PM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Yes, I would.
Ummm ... actually, that is the America of today as we know it. Blacks living over here, whites living over there, Hispanics living back there, etc. Or did you somehow fail to notice that?
This failure to mix breeds a lot of nonsense in people's minds in ther feverish attempts to proove that they really aren't racist. Thus forced busing, affirmative action, minority set-asides, reparations, white refusal to even travel through minortiy nieghborhoods, red-lining, "see here's my one black friend how can I be a racist", etc.
If everyone would be more honest and open and simply state forthrightly with their mouth what they have already acted upon with their feet, America would be better off, and we would have a much better handle on the mixed ethnicity issue and its effects on us as a society.
Instead, everything is done in euphemisms and silently for fear of the race police. So instead of de-racializing society, this attitude breeds the exact opposite - everything must be passed through the race prism.
What he said may have been wrong, but just because he is proud of his german heritage doesn't mean you have to use Hitler as a slap in the face. Thats a nice subtle cheap shot you laid in there, that was uncalled for, there were alot of ways you could have taken shots at him for what he said, why you took the low road, was unnessary.
For starters, only a few decades ago, Southern Senators and Representaives, were ALL Dems . The KKK, though somewhat represented in a few Northern and Midwestern states, didn't firld political candidates there.
The Civil Rights Act, was ONLT passed with the help of the RR-E-P-U-B-L-I-C-A-N-S , as the Dems voted against it ; including Al Gore Sr. !
The nomination, of Richard Nixon, for the presidency, of the USA, in 11968, was seconded, on T.V. yet, by a prominant, black C-O-N-S-E-R-V-A-T-I-V-E woman, from Chicago !
OK, I think anyone who considers skin tone important is a dumbass. So I guess "race" matters a little bit after all.
Apparently, the way I phrased my question made more than a few people think I was black and write accordingly.
Wonderful! I'm a lineal descendant of Roger de Washbourne, of the Norman de Washbourne's who came over to England, thumped some Anglo-Saxon's around in 1066, and took up running large estates and opressing the peasantry. Ours was Little Washbourne and Great Washbourne in Gloucestershire. North on A435 out of Cheltenham, then right on B4077.
I haven't traced back those Normans far enough to find any colorful names like Skull-Splitter yet. ;-)
There aren't any blacks, living around me, now; however, having lived most of my life in big cities ( Manhattan & Chicago ), I have lived in neighborhoods, where, IF you could afford to live in them, it didn't matter what your race was. In Chicago, you had a far more difficult time getting into certain clubs, if you were a Jew, married to a Jew, or your great grandparents had been Jews, than if you were black. As to schools, my daughter went to THE finest private schools , and yes, some of her classmates were black. Some were of Asian descent, and in boarding school, some were Asians, some were Europeans, some were South Americans, and some were just Americans...of various races , religions, regions. She had and has friends from ALL of those groups; as do her father and I.
Since my daughter is married to an African ( Afrikaner ), my future grandchildren are going to be able to call themselves " AFRICAN - AMERICANS " , on PC aapplications and that makes me laugh my socks off! :-)
Adults who have felt the sting of racial discrimination, try to make this country a better place for their children.This is the goal.Many strive to achieve it.
I am not black.My fraternal white grandmother detested me, and my brothers, her own grandchildren, because my mother was "a half breed heathen Indian".I was born in 1958.
Am I bitter? DUH. But I moved on, and so can all of us, in the USA.We are the only society with a chance of doing so.The trick is not to pass the "sins of the fathers" to the children.
I was raised in a racist environment.My grandmother hated me, but she really, truly hated black people even more. Anyone who expects me to apologise for her attitude against blacks, can KMA.If anyone expects me to justify it,KMA.
Do the "victims" of race baiting ever stop to consider the relative youth of our society as the USA? Even today, in 2002, in various parts of the USA, the old saying " the only good Indian is a dead one" is accepted as a commonly known truth.Why do some blacks feel they have some kind of edge on racial discrimination pain, because their ancestors were imported live? As opposed to conquered and slain, Native American indigenous people?Please!Try to buy a clue here.
This is the 21st century.Get over it, and try not to pass barbaric racial or religious hatred to your children.It may be a part of your adult experience, but it need not be your child's.
Of course, race matters.It will probably take a few more generations before it does not.If we train our children that the racial hatred of the past is condoned or accepted, it will never go away.
Adults must use our logic to overcome childish impulses.WAKE UP EVERYONE.AN ENEMY OF ALL HUMANITY IS BEATING AT THE DOOR.WE CAN CHOOSE TO ADVANCE, OR WE CAN REVERT TO ABSOLUTE BARBARISM.
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