Sadako of Girth
Extreme Mode
Interesting points all round.
A word on any slavery horror of the past being used as a credit card to legitimise segregationist thinking in the present...
I can't think of any one person who lived to 400 yrs.
Anyone care to name one...?
Just one will do....
Now, when you have done that, then we can move onto detailing where and when they were a slave and how I or anyone I know in the modern age enslaved them, personally.
Then after that I'll be able to accept that the past is a valid reason to perpetuate more feelings of seperation from anybody in the now.
Now speaking as an Irish/Pol/Jewish hybridy type guy originating from several of the other most persecuted races on earth, I'd like to acknowledge that some people in the past had done bad things in the past and that those responsible died a fair old while before we were even born-and may they rot in hell for what THEY did - and move on to the now and have some harmony with folks now.
I wouldn't feel that Irish/Pol/Jew history month would be an effective means of feeling truelt one with the rest of the world... I'd feel patronised by the existance of such a thing.
I hear you on the education element. So is learning this at school not enough for some people...?
I personally have never enslaved anyone and refuse to be thought of as someone who did at any time.
Regardless of ethnicity, if you're being cool, you're cool.
If you are acting like an an ass, you're an ass.
Hence that boy Damilola Taylor -getting stabbed with a bottle and left to bleed to death makes me saddened and angry,
yet I hope that Robert Mugabi is ripped apart by lions while still breathing, while the families of those he had mass-murdered/is still murdering at present get to pour salt into his open wounds as he dies.
Its an individual thing.
And yes I agree: F*** the KKK.
And F*** all those who would attempt to be so short sighted as to go about their days constantly trying to judge or put down whole races for any historic reason.
Again, its seems like it should be an individual thing.
Like others have said: Human power.
Thanks for reading through this, if you have, and I trust this was read by you all in the best way- the way that it was meant to be.
Peace. (Except to Mugabi, obviously...)