| rattlerbrat |
03-16-2006 02:39 PM |
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Originally posted by AlphaFrog
I don't think you can fairly say that "Because my Great Grandmother was a slave, I didn't get the job I interviewed for today".
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Try to follow me, Dippy. If you can't, I'll type slower.
I agree that we should stop COMPLAINING about slavery. I'm tired of hearing about it - mainly because it doesn't affect my family. (People seem to not understand the concept of "free blacks" or "immigration".) HOWEVER - still with me? there was this little thing called the civil rights movement. Ever hear about it? Some chick on a bus, and a preacher with a dream, and all that STUFF?
The reason why we're still "COMPLAINING" about the Holocaust is because we still have Holocaust victims walking around. And you know what? My mother - who is 46 - can tell you about how her mother worked her fingers to the bone to keep her two children in Catholic school so they would never have to be bussed. And that came AFTER the Holocaust. Chronologically speaking, it's a fairly recent event. And if you think that we're not feeling the effects of that, I have a bridge I'd love to sell you in sunny Brooklyn.
Black people have been screwed with in this country since the 1600s, and there have only been laws against that, more or less, for about 40 years. So the way I see, we've got a good...50? 60? more years to keep reminding the world about it before it becomes "COMPLAINING".
That being said, I find this kid to be annoying and comical. No wonder she's home schooled - she'd probably get dirt shoved in her mouth if she ran around school spouting that pompous STUFF. Shame on her parents for using her as a vessel to push their beliefs on the world. If this kid was white, I get the feeling there wouldn't be so much praise for "telling it like it is". |
