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!
I would recommend in this case, that you watch roots again and again. including the rarely seen second chapter of the original mini series.
and then watch the documentary TRAIL OF TEARS,
and study your own national history. on how your countrymen treated each other.
we humans all have blood on our hands, it is not a unique situation. raping and plundering was how the world worked. and no ones past history is clean of it.
you can even look to present day africa and the middle east. where such barbary still is a part of their every day existence.
Typical reaction, sorry to say, and I do mean that, not saying that as a hollow phrase.
What I'm used to is acknowledging your wrong doings. And in the US this isn't in the past as it's still very much alive. It's a major problem in the US even though slavery doesn't exist anymore.
I don't need to be lectured on history or what happened in the world. I know full well.
And it's also odd you seem to think that you are separate, Americans, different country & people, and take things as an attack on Americans, which is a common reaction from many Americans.
But do you understand that when this all began in the Americas you were Europeans? Which makes it part of our history as well.
White Americans didn't exist at all. Europeans invaded the Americas. Another thing Americans seem to forget.
Acknowledgement and giving validation to the suffering of both the Indians and black Americans might help ease pain.
Hell, even our KING had to apologize for things done in the past, way before he was even born!
Where's the sympathy and compassion for these people? I don't see that, all you do is have a knee-jerk reaction because you feel attacked, and then you lash out at me.
Maybe try to see the bigger picture. If more would and could the solution to the B & W problem in the US might be closer.
And disagree with you as this situation IS unique. There is no other country in the world where there is such an enormous deep problem between 2 races where neither of these originate in that country. And where the 3rd party, the original inhabitants, are usually not even mentioned: the Indians, that in all honesty are the only ones who could voice a claim.
And that situation can't be changed anymore. But I think genuine compassion, understanding, and sympathy for what happened would be good.
Beats saying "Then get on a boat back to where you came from!"
If you don't see the stupidity of saying that to people whose roots in America go as far back as his own...
As for looking at my country's history... we actually founded part of America! Wallstreet etc. The entire first big part was ours. So I AM looking at my country's history. Guess you didn't realise that.
It's really annoying you think no one can say anything about America while -as I said- your history is tied to ours as your roots are European. Plus, when the chit hits the fan in the US, like with that creep police officer and Floyd, entire Western Europe goes mental, riots, protests, and destruction everywhere.
You may think you're a stand-alone entity and no one is allowed to say anything, but unfortunately that's not very realistic.
"Remi, alone in the world" doesn't exist anymore since we have phones, internet etc.
Would have saved us an awful lot of trouble and cost if those idiot police men hadn't killed Floyd.
So yeah, as far as I'm concerned we do have a say since it also affects life over here.
Leaving this at that. I tried to shed some insight and light on a very racist hateful post.
If people cannot understand that and instead have knee-jerk reactions... not going to spend my energy on that.
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SparklingCrystal 💖💎
on Wed 03/16/22 03:28 PM
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