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Originally posted by Rain Man
Translation: I don't want to heal, restore, and reconcile, I wanna be a perpetual victim for the rest of my life, 'cause I got a right to whine and complain and much as I like. SO THERE!

Most victims I know don't want to be a victim. Most vctims want to heal and move on. Sometimes part of the healing process is talking about how you were victimized. Do you feel the same about child abuse victims who gain the courage to speak out?


[whine]The white man did this, the white man did that, the white man did the other, us black people are such oppressed victims, no one cares about us, our pain hurts more than [insert ethnicity here]'s pain, whine whine whine, complain complain complain, etc. etc. etc...[/whine]

Ever hear of 'Jim Crow' laws? One of the most dispiscable (?sp) events that resulted from Hurricane Katrina / New Orleans was when there was documented evidence (shown on 60 Minutes) of White police officers from a small town just west of NO standing on the bridge of 1-10 West with shotguns, shooting into the crowds of Black people that were *walking* to get out since they had no other form of transportation. So, I guess by your logic these Blacks have no reason to whine about their treatment. Why were these police officers shooting at the Blacks? The reason given by the police chief was that he did not want 'those types of people' in his town. American citizens. Oh, in case you don't remember, this incident occured in 2005.


You choose to ignore me because you know I got a point but you are too proud to admit it. Cut the BS. You don't have a solution because you don't want a solution, nor do you have a solution; you just want to whine.

Do what you like, cry me and everyone else a river about your wounds, I'm going to smh at what we have evolved into in 2006.

Have fun.

You are either not aware of this, or maybe you choose not to acknowledge this, but many Africans who were brought to the New World came, not because they wanted to, but they were forced to. They were forced into a lifetime of servitude for which if they tried to escape was punishable by death. Some actually took that risk. Do you also know that the penalty for teaching a Black slave to read was death - death to the slave and the one that taught him how to read. Why? Because when you can read, you can think. Africans were brough to this country to function as cattle, not as intelligent human beings who could make a contribution to the development of this country.

Some of the liberties that you, as a Black man, enjoy today were paid with the price of *our* African American ancestors blood and life. Do you know that you, as a Black man living just 50 short years ago, could be lynched, and there would be no recourse about it? Why? Beacuse the attitude was 'A good nigger is a dead nigger.' Yes, I said the 'N' word, beacuse for many Whites that is all we were. We were not people, we were creatures, animals, that did not warrant any respect or compassion. Fortunatly, not all Whites felt that way, but enough to leave an impression of hate that still lingers today. These are incidents that should not be forgotten.

No one is asking for special treatment. All that is being asked for is equal treatment.