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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mannie who wrote (204311)	7/6/2021 1:06:37 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364655

Mannie, if you teach kids the Howard Zinn fairy tale of slavery in America, of course black kids are going to hate white kids. Why wouldn't they? After all, I oppressed them, kept all the money, and my kids were born white and therefore rich. Except for me, and the vast majority of white Americans, it just didn't happen that way. As a practical matter, the Depression left almost everyone broke, and if you were in the Panhandle, you know what happened up there when the dust storms came in. Truth is, pretty much, every place in the country has at some point faced disaster of some kind. When I was in college, I found out a gf's parents had survived, with their parents, living on the roof of a house for a solid month as Eastern Arkansas was flooded in the Great Flood of 1927. You think anyone came out of that with a damned thing but 40 acres of shit? Same thing in Mississippi, all the way down to south Louisiana. Here's what the people of West Helena came out with: So, does one hardship cancel another? I am truly sorry about slavery, not just here, but ALL OVER THE WORLD. There continue to be some 20,000,000 forced labor slaves in the world today, maybe more. West Africa, Brazil, row crops, diamonds, iron, even gold. Now, we have gone far beyond reimbursing these nonslaves in the US have coming for their far distant relatives suffering. No one can possibly believe that tens of trillions, plus or minus, is inadequate given the remoteness of the suffering. We know it is pointless -- they'll just burn it all down next time a cop makes a mistake and shoots someone who happens to be black. There it goes. So, instead, how about we actually do something about the 20,000,000 people actually being forced to work as slaves today?