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Originally Posted by L-Pink
Oh come on, who do ?African American's? want sympathy, concessions or special treatment from, me? I had no black relatives in the Congo who captured their ancestors, I had no Portuguese relatives that bought their ancestors and brought them to America to sell. I have no southern relatives that bought their ancestors.
I don?t even have any relatives that were in America during the Civil War. Or during World War One for that matter.
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I never said that you had to do anything or that African American's needed anything from you.
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Originally Posted by L-Pink
I have the same empathy for anyone facing problems. Regardless of color. What I don?t have is sympathy for people dwelling in the past, the very distant past, that hasn?t got a damn thing to do with today.
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That's really where this whole thread and you and I digress. They don't dwell on the past. They are not even aware of why they are the way they are.
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I have a problem with people intentionally not fitting into today?s society and using something that happened 15 decades ago as an excuse. A selective excuse since the only time it seems to surface is when a white kills a black. Never when a black kills a white or a black kills another black. Funny how that works.
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You are right that a double standard exists and that our culture today can be politically correct and I do not like that, and will agree with you on that point. But again, as I said before, I don't think that most of them realize that they are affected by the past.
It takes an educated mind (somewhat) and some outside help to even grasp the dynamics of abuse and how it plays out psycho dynamically within an individual or family. Many educated middle class White people are only able to 'see' why they have behaved they way they did after seeing a good therapist.
Now, having said that I don't mean to say that we should totally accept whatever African Americans do and feel sorry for all their behavior. Like everyone else they do need to make better decisions and do a better job but that problem faces most people, not just Blacks.