Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
This is about RACE you moron. Not about who was on fecking welfare. YOU may be able to function in daily life without the need to think about racial issues. But others DON'T. The world doesn't revolve around YOU and your life jackass. That's the point which you apparently missed.
You made it about me when you implied I had some sort of privilege in my life simply because of my skin color, which is utter bullshit. I couldn’t care less what you think about that, or anything else for that matter.
Now, by all means, carry on embarrassing yourself. [Reply]
Originally Posted by UChieffyBugger:
You're entitled to live how you live buddy. But some folks are forced to face racial situations every single day and don't have the privilege to not think about it.
I highly doubt anyone treats you that way because of the color of your skin. They treat you that way because you're a fucking moron and they probably don't like you. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
Yeah. I mean they did what they had to do. If those settlers didn’t take the land from them, the Spanish probably would have. We wiped away the previous culture, just like they surely did the ones before them. Humanity = shit
Originally Posted by MarkDavis'Haircut:
Labor Day, sure.
Columbus Day, no. We aren't here without Columbus' expedition. It changed the world forever.
Columbus didn’t discover what’s now the USA. And even if his ship sunk at sea. They would have sent more ships. All the countries knew there may be new wealth in the new world for them to bring back home. He was not a unique man that without him the Americans would have went undiscovered. It would have delayed it by a year at the most.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Columbus didn’t discover what’s now the USA. And even if his ship sunk at sea. They would have sent more ships. All the countries knew there may be new wealth in the new world for them to bring back home. He was not a unique man that without him the Americans would have went undiscovered. It would have delayed it by a year at the most.
So if Columbus didn’t do it, somebody else eventually would. Got it. :-) [Reply]
Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief:
You made it about me when you implied I had some sort of privilege in my life simply because of my skin color, which is utter bullshit. I couldn’t care less what you think about that, or anything else for that matter.
Now, by all means, carry on embarrassing yourself.
No idiot you said "I THINK ABOUT RACE ZERO TIMES" SO YOU MADE IT ABOUT YOURSELF DUMMY!!. Bottom line is don't try and tell people how they should feel when you aren't in their shoes. Plain and simple. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Coochie liquor:
No I get it. Every country was doing it. Just sucks. What a huge divide it still causes, even though it’s been over for this long.
But I agree, what has and is going on just sucks! Wasn’t our doing, but I hate it nonetheless.
You do realize that the first black person to enroll in an all white public school is still alive and is "only" 69 years old, right? Legalized slavery may have ended a while back but the repercussions from it are definitely still felt today. People living right now have experienced being a second class citizen in the very nation whose military uniform they wore. I, for one, can understand why this day would be a cause for national celebration as the freeing of the last slaves is a pretty massive historical landmark. Just like the Isrealites being freed from Egypt was a major landmark event in the bible.
Is it *YOUR* fault these people went through that? No.
Is it the fault of the government that still exists today? Yes.
Is it the fault of "your" (the general your as it refers to the average white person whose family has been in the US for a considerable amount of time) ancestors for the condition we find ourselves in today? Yes.
Relations between the races today is simply generational trauma inflicted on us by the people before it. They got to use people as slaves and treat them as sub-human when they couldn't be kept as slaves anymore. Made a bunch of money off of it and peaced the fuck out straight to hell without having to deal with any of the consequences.
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I don't believe anyone here is gonna force you (the general you) to celebrate this holiday but I would hope that in the context of history and the whole "love your neighbor as yourself" would lead some to be at least a little introspection regarding the position the descendants of the people we as a nation, unwillingly, brought over then shit on for 200 years.
Today being a holiday takes absolutely nothing away from anyone. [Reply]
