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Well, I suppose if the Irish or the Italians were taken from their homeland and enslaved and systematically treated as second class citizens for a 100+ years you'd be on to something. And we all die from diseases so that's not special. German immigrants facing mistreatment is similarly unfortunate but it wasn't on the scale of the wholesale discrimination against blacks for decades.
You are correct that white people have had their share of problems. All people have had their share of problems. But there is a big difference when you have some members of a group face a hardship and when you have all members of a group face a hardship. If you notice, all of the groups you mentioned were a specific nationality. Blacks as an entire race were subject to this discrimination and they were subjected to it for a longer period of time and done so systematically.
And, yes, Africans did sell other Africans into slavery - and that, I agree, blacks must acknowledge.
[if it makes a difference, I'm ethnically Hispanic/Asian, so I'm looking at this from a third party perspective - I don't see why people are so offended by BHM]
I'm not offended by black history month. I just think it's stupid and hypocritical to have a history month based on one ethnic group. Why not just teach history as history? To me black history is already a part of American history so why remove it? I thought "separate but equal" was wrong, so why are they doing it with this?
White people weren't slaves? So what about all the white slaves in Roman times? Owned by the Roman elite. Maybe I should go and ask for an official apology from every Italian person?
If you think that would make you feel better................
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BTW most white people didn't even own slaves, including the south. The vast majority of whites were dirt poor. Why is there no history month to show the struggles of the poor white farmers? Would that be racist?
I think we should show that. We could show how the dirt poor whites collaborated with the rich elite whites to maintain the status quo against their own economic interests. We could watch the hangings, the cross burnings, the beatings, the rapes, the denial of voting rights........we could go on and on.
If you think that would make you feel better................
I think we should show that. We could show how the dirt poor whites collaborated with the rich elite whites to maintain the status quo against their own economic interests. We could watch the hangings, the cross burnings, the beatings, the rapes, the denial of voting rights........we could go on and on.
While you're at it, show modern day Africa where there is rampant racism and genocide TODAY!
What gets me is that England was the biggest slave trader and NONE of you race hustlers ever mention them as being racists, just here in America. Many of you idolize England and Europe where slavery was created and was alive and well much longer than here in the US.
I am fine with an Irish History month, we Irish have brought plenty of Irish culture to America, but that doesn't justify having a white history month.
Have you ever read a history book? World history is white history month. How whites had slaves. How whites explored the globe and tried to take over everything that came into view. How whites fought wars. How whites stole the United States from native people. Hmm!
I'm not offended by black history month. I just think it's stupid and hypocritical to have a history month based on one ethnic group. Why not just teach history as history? To me black history is already a part of American history so why remove it? I thought "separate but equal" was wrong, so why are they doing it with this?
Black history month was created in a time when black history in our country wasn't being taught.
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