Posted on 12/01/2016 6:12:17 AM PST by pabianice
America was founded on genocide and slavery. Its economic prosperity came directly from the destruction of Native culture and lives, and then later from the importation of enslaved Black slaves from the West Indies and Africa. Even in the North and after abolition, Black people served as cheap labor forces for dangerous jobs. After abolition, prisons began using free labor from Black prisoners to manufacture goods. Blacks were incarcerated falsely or stood unfair trails at ridiculous rates so that they could once again provide free labor for the thriving American economy.
The history of this country is one story of economic or social exploitation after another, shrouded in rhetoric of freedom and gallantry.
Close that place down, raze every building and sow the soil with salt!
Ah yes, the smug, self-satisfied braying of youth.
It’s obvious then they either need to ban straight white men or enforce a rigorous code of conduct for the behavior and thoughts of white men on their campus.
That is all the farther I got in the article. Sounds like they are talking about the Demonicrat party.
I could dig through the minutia of American history and find far more flaws than these brainwashed liberals are aware of. As an honest student of history, I do dig through the minutia of our history, and I do see the warts. However, I also see the greatness. America has a whole lot more greatness than flaws, and it has immeasurably more good than any other country in the history of the world.
Only a fool would refuse to see the balance in our history, and only a fan of tyranny could look at the whole story and not feel pride in all the good that our country has accomplished. It’s sad that these losers are taking on debt to receive an education that is unconnected to reality and thus worthless for employment or for life after college.
Youth? Sounds more like a liberal arts professor these days...
Isn’t odd that the same rants that college kids did in the late sixties and early seventies are still the same as the ones today? Is it the dope? Is it the commie propaganda? Maybe both
Where is the picture of the guy saying “Oh, geez! Not this again?”
that’s because all those radical kids from the 60s became professors teaching communism=good, capitalism and the usa=bad
True...If you have no marketable skills, you become either a college professor or a politician.....
‘The history of this country is one story of economic or social exploitation after another, shrouded in rhetoric of freedom and gallantry.’
I could us these words to describe CUBA over the past 55 years. Elite Castro did all that.
The college kids in the late sixties, early 70s are today’s professors
Oh indeed
Their arguments are feckless on a good day
The “ dumb as ****” college snowflakes are on a wild rampage. Retards.
Youth? Sounds more like a liberal arts professor these days...
That's where the youth go who don't want the bother of growing up.
Hey UMass, if those injuns had a bigger defense budget they’d still be in control here!
Is there any point trying to argue these points? I’m Canadian and my wife goes to a University as an older student. She was told by one of her classmates “You are welcome. This is my land the University is built upon. You get to come here rent free”. You can’t even begin to argue with this silliness.
You know that's a rhetorical question.
My response falls along the lines of, "there are a lot of black marks regarding our history, but there is no country in world history that has done more to right its wrongs than the United States."
If that's not good enough, I have plenty of arrows in my quiver to shoot back at them, depending on how riled up I get.
I agree. It is sad that Jackson forced natives from the east onto reserves in the mid West. From my limited understanding, I agree that that was morally wrong.
But I wonder which country they are thinking of that is perfect? In Brazil to this day the government lets militia groups force aboriginals off forested land in order to build developments. In Canada we stole land from the Japanese Canadians. The history of Britain is one savage domination of group after group, from the destruction of the Celt empire to the domination of the Saxons by the Normans. And these are nations with a relatively “nice” history.
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