02-23-2004, 11:15 AM
FF just said exactly what I was thinking... gotta learn to let it go. It's been a long time... I feel bad for the human beings that were enslaved in the past, but I don't feel sorry for the current state of the black race as a whole, because I don't think it's much of a problem for them to be free and successful anymore. We are very well aware of the past, and no one is saying it was good. There's no use in feeling guilty.
The Holocaust was much more recent, and much more worse than can be described in words. Should anyone of German/Austrian decent feel guilty? Should they apologize to Jews they encounter? If they didn't take part in it, no! Persecution and slavery happens all around the world in the past and even now... shit happens, and I don't think there's much of a problem in America about learning from mistakes like that. I think the world is still recovering from WWII and the Holocaust, slavery of the past is far in the back of the mind as it should be, unless of course we do it again.
The Holocaust was much more recent, and much more worse than can be described in words. Should anyone of German/Austrian decent feel guilty? Should they apologize to Jews they encounter? If they didn't take part in it, no! Persecution and slavery happens all around the world in the past and even now... shit happens, and I don't think there's much of a problem in America about learning from mistakes like that. I think the world is still recovering from WWII and the Holocaust, slavery of the past is far in the back of the mind as it should be, unless of course we do it again.