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Originally posted by The Original Ape
You are probably too young to remember but, you should ask the black people living in Phili if they considered themselves american when the FBI bombed apartments, and shot up almost all of the members of The Black Panther Party there a couple of decades ago. Some of these people STILL don't consider themselves american because of it. This government has pesistently persued and had their way with our leaders. Who REALLY killed Martin and Malcolm?
It would make you wonda.
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I'm also too young to remember that (how old
are you again, OA?
). Anyway, again, we all know the problems that exist with our gov't in reference to their treatment of African Americans. However, I don't feel that
now is the time for
us to attack our own gov't. If or when further attacks come, they will be against
all of us. Like Special 1920, I have gotten very frustrated with
our fellow Americans that have turned this into a race related issue.
We have to be able to see past color to get to the crux of the issue.
Am I looking through "rose colored glasses", thinking that racism does not exist ~ absolutely not. There's a time and a place for everything, and with war eminent, this is not the time. Were these feelings present before the attacks ~ yes. But what were we
doing about them?
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