Great picture.
Should white people feel guility?
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what is up with these people? i’m not going to feel guilty about something that I can’t change, usually I don’t feel guilty about things I CAN change…I realize that perhaps due to my background, I might not be as friendly towards colored people as I am toward white people, but most of them have different interests than me, etc. if I have certain feelings towards people of color, I can change that, and as long as I realize this, that’s all that matters to me.
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Good point DS. Anytime someone who has accomplished something of worth it would seem the standard responce is
Why that (insert name) dont count, (he/she) is in the pocket of the (insert organization or political ideoligy )
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Exactly.
I forgot, but who was it that called Colin Powell an “uncle tom sell-out” or something to that effect? In any event, I gaurentee you that it was someone who was beneath him in both reputation and respect. :wink:
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I’m glad that most of the regulars here agree with me on this subject.
Thanks for the replies. I have the feeling that this guy was a college student and we all know how bad the education is in some colleges!!! -
I’m glad that most of the regulars here agree with me on this subject.
Thanks for the replies. I have the feeling that this guy was a college student and we all know how bad the education is in some colleges!!!or at least how blunted, ideological, and politicised history the education is.
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You would be suprised Cystic Crypt on how bad some stuff is being taught to college students. I have heard that some proffessors have claimed that the Soviet Union had a better economy than us before they fell apart.
It’s crap like that makes me want to kick some of those proffessors out of the system.
Some proffessors are nothing but ideological.
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You would be suprised Cystic Crypt on how bad some stuff is being taught to college students. I have heard that some proffessors have claimed that the Soviet Union had a better economy than us before they fell apart.
It’s crap like that makes me want to kick some of those proffessors out of the system.
Some proffessors are nothing but ideological.
they tend to focus their stats around ideologies. Certainly the USSR appeared to have a better economy than the US . . . less unemployment, fewer people hovering around an arbitrarily determined poverty line, less discrepancy between rich and poor . . . it all depends on how you define a good economy.
but when a mcdonald’s hamburger costs a week’s wage as opposed to half-hour’s minimum wage, there is something to be said about smart heart health ;) -
@cystic:
but when a mcdonald’s hamburger costs a week’s wage as opposed to half-hour’s minimum wage, there is something to be said about smart heart health ;)
So are you saying the Russian economy was better because it was harder to kill yourself by obesity? :wink:
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:D :lol: :P
Very funny Grigoriy.
But you have to admit that Cystic crypt makes a good point!!!
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What we should not forget is the following points:
How much profit did we (westerners) make by the slaves, how much profit did they make for us?
What would be the interest rates that we would charge?
Will we “repay our debts”? That is, give the above money to organizations etc. that work against the injustices that have their roots in the days of slave-trade?And i am not talking of the situation inside the US, but of all western countries. We still employ de-facto slaves, and do not care. We made up our first wealth on cost of slaves, and now that we are rich, give credits to the countries we exploited before and let them pay the interest (our interest is more important than wether their people get food or not)…
I don’t know wether we should feel guilty, but whoever (of us westerners) uses words like “fairness” or “same chance” should be aware that he/she is in a highly favored position, on cost of continents like South America, Africa and large parts of Asia.
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You can expand the original question of this post to include whether or not the German people of today should feel guilty for the sins of the Nazi’s. The Nazi’s deemed my Slavic brothers in Central and Eastern Europe “sub-human” and planned them to be directed to the death/labor camps after the Jews. Do I hold that against the present day German - certainly NOT !
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Yet Germans are still forced to pay Reperations.
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I guess my question about Germany playing reperations would be, are they paying those who were placed in camps and survived? Or are they paying the people who were not there but are decendents of those who were?
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I believe it’s to those who survived the camps. But I thought I heard that Germany also paid the country of Isreal. Does anybody know about the latter??
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i dont think the germans should have to pay reparations, if for no other reason then it wasnt all germans who did this to jews, it was the nazis. and i dont think people today owe any reparations for slavery. we cant hold the people of today responsible for the actions of their ancestors that they never even could have met
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Germany paid Israel, and those who did forced labor.
Will the US pay the people who sit in Guantanamo and Diego Garcia?
One of the released (as he was finally found innocent) was promised 2000$ but received only 100$.@ waraxis: There is a difference between “feeling guilty” and “holding s.th. against s.o.”
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…and i dont think people today owe any reparations for slavery. we cant hold the people of today responsible for the actions of their ancestors that they never even could have met
But, you would take the wealth/money of your ancestors’ heritage. Even if that money is blood money.
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my ancestors didnt own slaves. the first ones arrived in the US well after slavery ended, and were either too poor in Europe to have owned slaves, or werent alive while slavery was practiced in Europe (I have researched my family true, I know with as much certainty as can be possible that no one in my family ever owned a slave). Now I take it you didnt specifically mean me, but simply referred to me as an example. so ill answer your question anyway. I think the only people that have any claim to reparations are those who were slaves, and only of their former owners. but since they are all dead by now, their are no due reparations. That is not to say people cant give money on their own, feeling guilt, but it cant be something they are forced to do, as they have no responsibility. Aside from not having been alive to affect the situation in any way, so many things have happened between slavery and today, that even if someones ancestors made wealth from slavery, that money may not have any affect today. The people could be poor today, or wealthy by other means, their money did not necessarily come to them from their ancestors. Not to mention, I would say that most likely every one on earth, or close to it, has at least one person in their ancestry that once did something terrible to someone else and got money for it. should we hold them responsible too? of course not. and its not really blood money, because generally that applies to money for a murder, or assasination
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I too find myself in agreement with Janus1, must be something in the water :wink:
My mothers half of the family came to America from eastern europe in the 1930’s. My fathers side of the family I dont really know, I have seen my family name “schneider” in the service of the Union army in the civil war, however i think my last name in Germany (where my paps family was) is kinda like smith or Jones here.
I digress, should those who decended from my mothers side of the family pay for something that took place nearly 100 years prior to their arrival in the country?
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should those who decended from my mothers side of the family pay for something that took place nearly 100 years prior to their arrival in the country?
Of course they shouldn’t. Should they feel bad that it took place? Absolutely, everyone should feel bad it took place, but it shouldn’t rule your life. And if you want to contribute money to a Black rights group, or if you want to pay reparations, you can go ahead, but to make people is just shameful.
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