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Originally Posted by ilnjscb
I think blacks in america got seriously shafted for hundreds of years. They like to say "400 years" but it wasn't that long, however, are we really splitting hairs?
They went through unimaginable suffering. Then they were freed and treated like shit for another hundred years.
The anger they have won't go away and isn't good for them, white people, or the US. Most blacks hate white people more than they'll admit, and blame white people for all and sundry wrongs in their life.
I think the only way to get rid of that anger is to confront these images, allow them to exist in reality because they happened. Even then who knows. Maybe the US doesn't survive it.
White people today of course don't want to face that. I'm not sure they should have to. The sense exists that someone should "pay" for that time, but that isn't how reality works. Living well is the best revenge, they say.
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I don't think black people should use all that you laid out as an excuse for anything....but I do think it's good for white people to keep in perspective what it must be like to live in a country where your ancestors were brutalized by a certain group of people. That has to sit there in the back of every African-American's mind when interacting with white people and know that you need to live in the present and not let that bother you. It would drive me crazy.
White people today shouldn't have to feel guilty or ashamed of what their ancestors did, but they should at least keep that history in perspective.