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To: tejek who wrote (361140)	12/3/2007 12:03:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577978

American whites enslaved Africans and brought them to work here as indentured servants. I never enslaved anyone. Apparently neither you nor your ancestors didn't enslave anyone in America, or supported the idea of slavery in America, or owned slaves in America (or elsewhere in the same time frame, but if you go back far enough you are very likely to have both slaves and slave owners in your ancestry). Why are we responsible? Answer we are not. White people where also used ad indentured servants (sort of limited time period slaves) in America. Further back they where also slaves to all sorts of groups. Blacks took slaves in Africa, as did the Arabs. Blacks also sold slaves, and owned slaves in America, if not as many as where sold or owned by whites. Most white people didn't own slaves, and many where against slavery. Also many thousands died in a war that ended slavery. Why would these people be considered responsible for slavery? Answer: They are not, and neither are their decedents. Should wealthy decedents of a black slave owner get formal, built in, systematic advantages, over recent poor immigrants from Asia, or white decedents of abolitionists? Why? Even if the idea that punishment for the sins of the father shall fall upon the son was just (and its not), here you are giving the advantage to the decedents of the perpetrator of injustice, at the expense of people who had nothing to do with it, or fought against it. And then of course many people are mixed race, how do you figure benefits than? Once you start looking for past injustices you will find them all over. But in most cases both the perpetrators and the victims are dead. Keeping the issue alive only serves to continue conflict. Punishing innocent people for the actions of their ancestors (and even punishing people with innocent ancestors during the time frame your talking about) only serves to serves to continue injustice, and in some cases inspire more racism. The answer is to treat people as people, and not examples of some skin color or part of some other collective.