Originally Posted by
atpwannabe
Basically....4-500 years of injustice and all you say is "Acknowledge it, get over it, and move on." Man I tell ya...when ignorance is bliss. Classic response. To be very forthright with you xjtguy, tell our Middle-Eastern ally that about what they suffered just prior to and during WWII. See what kind response you get!
It's funny, my ethnic heritage is what's referred to as Caucasian, with the majority of it from one geographic region. For over a "4-500 years of injustice", that group (my ancestry) was oppressed by ANOTHER group of guess what? Another Caucasian group of people. Isn't that something?
Should I hold ANYBODY in that group in contempt?
Originally Posted by
atpwannabe
You really don't know YOUR history...do you? The past is our greatest teacher. If we don't learn from it, we're doomed to repeat it.
I'm done.
atp
Speak for yourself, because you don't really don't
know your history EITHER.
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
There isn't a race/color, creed, gender, etc... that hasn't been *discriminated* against at some point in history by some other peoples.
Agree with this, see my above. And it CONTINUES to happen in various places in the world. Even though to the outsider, those people can appear exactly the same. Yet there's a racial/ethnic divide. The problems in Africa are a prime example.
But along the line of what you've said on this topic previous;
Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
This was the attitude of generations past and it didn't stand then and it shouldn't be accepted now. Others said that times like Jim Crowe couldn't be changed because 'that was the way things had always been'.
USMCFLYR
Which was a response to this post;
5) Why do we have affirmative action? Because of mistakes the previous generation made. I, u, and our peers have nothing to do with that, but we cant undue it today. We have to live with it.