[Chickensoup]

Black college students led the demonstrations against a Columbus statue in our city.

Say what? Their ancestors weren’t even in America, yet.

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The aggrieved are permanently aggrieved

[elcid1970]

“The aggrieved are permanently aggrieved.”

Money quote! And never appease the b@stards!

[Verginius Rufus]

Many black Americans have a bit of Indian ancestry (and even more have some European ancestry). Except for immigrants from Africa in recent times, the black Americans of today would not exist if Columbus had never sailed, even those of 100% sub-Saharan ancestry. Their African ancestors lived in various places in Africa and would never have met and produced offspring with their other African ancestors if they had not been forcibly removed from their African paradise and brought to the New World.

Of course slavery was horrible, but so was Aztec human sacrifice and Mongol massacres and a lot of other human actions in the past. Perhaps the energy would be better directed to getting rid of slavery where it still exists.