Perhaps if you'd been in the slave owning South
A couple of challenges for you X:
1. Tell us the origin of the word "slave".
2. Tell us who sold slaves to the white operated slave ships?
3. Tell us whether blacks have ever enslaved other blacks.
4. Tell us whether you have ever seen, heard, or felt a racist thought or act against a person not of your race.
5. TELL US WHEN THE SONS/DAUGHTERS OF EVERY WHITE FAMILY WILL NO LONGER BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE SINS OF THE GRANDFATHERS/MOTHERS OF A SELECT FEW WHITES WHO HELD SLAVES....
6. And most of TELL US WHEN BLACKS WILL FINALLY REMOVE THIS "CHIP" OFF OF THEIR SHOULDERS, AND FINALLY REALIZE THAT EACH OF HAVE TO STAND ON OUR OWN MERIT, REGARDLESS OF OUR RACIAL HERITAGE
X, I don't mean to be rude, but even a smart gal like yourself should know that when you try to put a guilt trip on someone they only wind up resenting you more. African-americans are POISONING there own spirituality and passing on misplaced resentment to their own children by continuing to play the "slave" card during a time they should be focusing on how to infuse positive values such as overcoming adversity and bettering there lives from generation to generation.
This has the course that many races and ethinicities, whether Asian, Latin, Jews, Poles, Italians, Irish... etc, have followed. They ALL HAVE ISSUES in their pasts that could fuel some form of resentment towards another group of people, but they have focused on forgiveness and asserting their self-worth through POSITIVE reinforcement, not perpetual guilt trips.
On a personal level:
I have never held slaves.
I have never met anyone who claims to hold slaves.
No one in my past that I'm ever aware of ever held slaves.
In fact, my father's family were dirt poor strawberry farmers from the backwoods of Arkansas who NEVER received a lick of support or sympathy from the Federal Government nor any black person. They received NO affirmative action, no food stamps, no ADP, no free cheese, milk. They never had a organization like a National Association for the Advancement of Dirt Poor Strawberry Farmers.
I was the first child among all all my father's brothers and sisters to attend college. So don't preach to me about being economically disadvantaged.
There is MORE THAN ENOUGH BLAME TO GO AROUND. But no one can change the past. All we can do is change the future and treat each other more decently than our ancestors did.
Regards,
Ron |
