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Originally posted by hannah6782
it seems to me racism is being looked at in the wrong way,
for example, if i met a german person, i wouldnt immediatly hate him for the holocaust, i wouldn't think oh he caused millions of my people to die, he is to blame. if he later said something anti-semetic, that would be a different story, then i would have a reason to dislike him not his entire culture, maybe some people do but i dont and i think the same can be said for black and white issues in this country, an african- american who doesnt like any white people because of what happened a couple hundred years ago at least is racist, because if that person then does something that is discriminating against you because you are of another ethnic group, then that person is to blame not everyone who is white. i just think that it is sad that people have so much aggression towards one another, if we want everyone to be treated equally then truely everyone should be treated equally no benifits, no special treatment, just equally.
-hannah
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I don't like your parallel. It's just a different situation, and to me, equating the situation of Jews and black people just never works. Too many differences for all our similarities to invite a real, FAIR comparison.
And black people faced a lot more in this country besides slavery. Jim Crow? Grandfather clauses? lynchings? Almost all those things are still happening!
There are a lot of black people who don't like white people because of their interactions with whites. They don't like being condescended to, they don't like being discriminated against, and that has been their personal experience. There are a LOT of black people (in my mothers generation) who can remember not being allowed to eat at the same restaurant, and who can remember what it felt like to be TOLD that they were inferior.
That doesn't go away in a generation. That doesn't necessarily go away in two. The world is not an equal place. It has never been an equal place. It is our job as citizens to make it better, and to do it by making ourselves more aware of the FACTS of how things are, instead of how we wish they were.
Then we change them.