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To: Father Terrence who wrote (31141)	7/31/2000 3:22:45 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

The starting point of racism is the belief that there are races of humans.

To: Father Terrence who wrote (31141)	9/8/2000 3:25:06 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

Racism can also be based on experience. Many Hawaiians despise haoles (whites) because haoles stole their country from them. Many Indians despise whites because whites massacred them. So on for Sammi, Samoans, etc. What do exploitive races have to do to win respect from the exploited races? First, they have to apologize, then compensate, and finally realize that history is not easily forgotten. Who are whites to tell their historical victims that they should forgive and forget. The facts are that few human groups ever make generous, life-saving gestures to other groups. Very often they make destructive movesd against others through negligence if nothing else. When Captain Cook let his crew have shore leave he understood that in the normal course of events the islanders would be overwhelmed with venereal disease. Of course, no group of people today has vicarious guilt for their ancestors' acts. But bygones are not bygones. The exploiters possess the property and deprive the victims of sovereignty. These wrongs can be recompensed in part. No one need forget racial hate founded in injustice until the wrongs have been remedied. It is not for the heirs of wrongdoers in possession of their thefts to deny the need for compensation. The tragedy, of course, is that the real sufferers cannot be compensated and that injuries exacted by the victims cannot replace what was destroyed.