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**QvhhbjLy** · 05-14-2008, 09:08 AM

Both sides of this ongoing debate have valid points. On one hand, unimaginable atrocities were committed by the British/US government against Africans (and other groups, of course) with the slave trade/slavery, racist state governments, Jim Crow, segregation, etc. The promise of forty acres and a mule wasn't fulfilled, the handling of Reconstruction after the Civil War was bungled..the list goes on and on. However, for a lot of (white) people, this is all simply history. A lot of people get angry at the idea of paying reparations or being told they should feel guilty about what whites did fifty, a hundred or two hundred years ago. At the same time, there are a lot of businesses and individuals who owe their current wealth to slavery, so the issue is murky.

Anyway, my point is, letters like the OP whose message is 'Get over it, if it wasn't for whites you'd still be living in an African shithole, so be happy with what you've got' are cheap, useless, and undeserving of attention.

Apologies in advance for a possibly unclear or sloppy post, it's getting late.

05-14-2008, 09:08 AM	#7
QvhhbjLy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 373 Senior Member	Both sides of this ongoing debate have valid points. On one hand, unimaginable atrocities were committed by the British/US government against Africans (and other groups, of course) with the slave trade/slavery, racist state governments, Jim Crow, segregation, etc. The promise of forty acres and a mule wasn't fulfilled, the handling of Reconstruction after the Civil War was bungled..the list goes on and on. However, for a lot of (white) people, this is all simply history. A lot of people get angry at the idea of paying reparations or being told they should feel guilty about what whites did fifty, a hundred or two hundred years ago. At the same time, there are a lot of businesses and individuals who owe their current wealth to slavery, so the issue is murky. Anyway, my point is, letters like the OP whose message is 'Get over it, if it wasn't for whites you'd still be living in an African shithole, so be happy with what you've got' are cheap, useless, and undeserving of attention. Apologies in advance for a possibly unclear or sloppy post, it's getting late.
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