Oh yes.
Just because your ancestors might have come into this country in chains, it doesn't mean mine didn't disapproved of it. We went out to stop this. We gathered in numbers to do so. Some of us died to stop this atrocity from happening. We worked for your freedom.
And now, you're all mad because we didn't give you enough after we freed you? Are you that ungrateful? You could have just gotten aboard the boat that brought you here, because we offered that option to you. We offered you 80 acres and a mule, to get started again. Nobody offered that to us when we got here. Just because you squandered that offer, Why should it be our fault?
We knew nothing in this life is free. We work for what we have. It upsets us when we give you something, and you squander it, and want more. It's time you got off your lazy butt and do what we do, called work for what we work for.
Absolutely disgusting post and opinion. Exactly this kind of racist and hateful thoughts & behaviour is what keeps this alive & kicking.
We can also say that all you white lot over there should step on a boat and PO. You stole the land from the people that lived there AND that took very good care of it.
These people -the original & true owners of the land- were slaughtered, entire tribes killed, moved to an entirely different area that was infertile and of no use to the whites in "the new land", and others that remained a nuisance in white men's eye were shipped into slavery to other countries.
Do you step on a boat to go back to where you came from to right that wrong? It so P me O that Americans simply ignore the fact that they weren't the original people there!
Black people have as much right as you white lot as they have been there as long as you. No way can you call dibs on anything.
The other day I heard a black man say, "WE build this country with OUR blood, sweat, and pain!"
And he is right!
The northern half of the US may have fought to help free the slaves in the south, but bear in mind the other half of you fought just as hard to keep them in slavery.
So no one has the right to say "We did so much for you!" You. did. NOT.
Because of white men's greed these people were taken from their people, their country, their culture, their family -often as young kids still- to then be treated less than dogs.
Raped, whipped, maimed, locked up, chained, barely fed, children taken away and sold to another slaver, daughters getting raped etc. etc.
Wow, much to be grateful for!
In that sense I can understand the anger that must still be within these people. And many may not have this knowledge, but we have cell memory. Trauma like what the black people in America sustained is stored in cell memory in our bodies and will take a long long time to heal.
The fact that all this chit is still so much alive in the US today doesn't help.
And I'm not saying black people got it right with their behaviour, I'm not in agreement with them on many cases, but white people having less tunnel-vision sure as hell is warranted here.
And the ones that have difficulty with this should watch "Roots" again, and again, and again, until they can image themselves in their shoes. Being raped, whipped, hit, locked up, chained, maimed like having your foot chopped off for attempting to run away, etc. etc.
Maybe you feel slightly different then.
And I know many Americans do feel differently, not addressing them, so if you're one of those, please ignore this!