Nothing more to say other than EPIC FAIL.
Maybe the people who want forgiveness feel they have done something to be forgiven for. I would guess that maybe deep down these liberals have personal animus or some negative feelings towards blacks that makes them feel guilty.
Ditto. I would also add that it’s a rather senseless emotion to feel guilty for something one had absolutely nothing to do with.
What’s this guy been smoking?
My ancestors have been here in the South 200 years. I have no guilt.
And I befriend black folks because I like them, not because I owe them something different from the same respect I owe any other person.
Well, when the racists dissolve the Black Caucus, then I’ll start paying attention. (I’m still trying to contact the chairman of the White Caucus ... anybody got an email address?) /s
If a white writer has submitted such a piece of sophomoric pseudo-psychological trash, it would have been returned if and only if return postage had been included.
Look at what affirmative action has done to writing, publishing, ad nauseam.
Most of todays, America did not benefit from “slave” activities, nor did their ancestors.
For those that were involved a lot have time has passed, also, a lot of the “wealth “ “taken” from the blacks has been squandered. As far as “income” goes? Today farm labor is still the lowest paid job going with the workers narrowly getting by. The farm owners? Are having a tough time as well. I doubt things were much different then.
The blacks should be thankful they are here and have every opportunity open to them to fall in the system and be someone as opposed to their brothers in Guinea, Sierra leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana etc etc.
Most people in West Africa wish they could be in America..... for the opportunity that used to be.
We son’t like your kind there mister.
We’re gonna take you and your kind and put you in a re=education camp there fella.
You WILL pay.
Lot of crap huh?
Lock and load.
That thread on there is a steaming pile. I’m in no way responsible for slavery - my family is from a northern state and some died on the Union side in the Civil War, I’ve never had slaves, my famiy has never had slaves, plus it’s 2009!
They can take their reparations and shove it. Whose going to “reparate” my family for our Civil War dead? What about my oppressed Irish ancestors and the indentured English ones who had to work for 7 years for free to pay off their transit debt?
Ugh, now I’m ticked off.
LQ
The best reparation for the black Americans, descendants of former slaves, would be emergence of robust and viable black middle class, providing good education and employment opportunities for their kids, which is only possible under capitalism. Democrats are denying these opportunuties to them, because they are more inerested in a poor, needy, frustrated and angry underclass, for whom they may appear as a benefactor, Big Daddy giving handouts, keeping them down and dependent on the government. G-d said to the poor and hungry man begging for fish, I will give you a fishing rod and teach you how to catch fish so that you could feed yourself till the end of your days. Democrats are the worst perpetuators of slavery and its aftermath. And the new brand of Democrats wants to enslave us all.
Nothing more to say other than EPIC FAIL.
This phrase is indeed stolen - but lacks the structure to be a sentence.
But there are so many people telling me I should...I think they have a vested interest in the "white guilt" business/industry
To be honest, my family once owned slaves, in VA, KY and MO as they moved across the country between the late 18th and mid-19th centuries. The man who founded the paternal branch of my family in Tidewater Virginia, after immigrating from England, fought as an officer in the Revolutionary War. He was an overseer, farmer and local magistrate, as were two of his sons and a few of his grandsons. This all happened over 150 years ago and beyond.
Do I personally feel “guilty” for ANY of this? Not one bit!
The author of the piece must only know urban lefty caucasians and doesn't realize that the majority of allegedly white Americans have NO such guilt....
No one in my family has derived any benefit from American slavery and I refuse to give one red cent to any reparations for slavery. That debt was payed during the 1860s in blood by the soldiers that fought on both sides during the civil war.
The author, being black, is unqualified to comment on what “the white side of the street” is thinking.
..we did not gain anything from slavery.....
on the contrary, I would say its been tougher for people like us because all the jobs seem to have that "diversity" crap.....where a person is passed over so the minority with lesser skills can have the job....
maybe we should have a class action law suit.