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I most certainly do agree that all have practised most egregious forms of inhumanity to others. Nobody has a monopoly on evil, greed, hatred, or egoism.
However, if we are to continue to evolve in a progressively healthful manner, we're most assuredly going to have to relinquish the idea that "conquering the planet" has anything remotely to do with the concept of "success".
Advanced technology allowed whites to make their deeds and works of inhumanity more of a ubiquitous or widespread iniquity. They therefore were allowed to wreaked havoc in a more global fashion.
After evil deeds were done, any attention given to the after effects of such deeds can't simply be ignored.
If my great-grandfather raped your grandmother, killed your grandfather, stole your property, and kidnapped your mother, I'd feel personally responsible for compensating you for my great -grandfather's transgressions.
Well you better do some investigating and be ready to open up your wallet. I am sure some relative in your past did something to someone else that requires reparations. How far do you go back? 241 years? This could cost you quite a bit.
Considering how no hispanic person is pure, most of them have at least spanish and native american, it wuld be a interracial marriage.
La Raza bull****. NO "Hispanic" person is "pure," huh? NONE?
Get off it. Hispanics can be of ANY race, including being MIXED race.
But there are plenty of people in Latin America who are predominantly (or entirely) white, black or indigenous alone. Using genetic analysis I can trace an ancestor back to the northern African invasion of Iberia myself. But I'm nearly blonde and have green eyes and burn in the sun. I am not exactly what one would call "mixed race."
I also know plenty of "Hispanics" who are indistinguishable from the average southern European. Especially the richer Colombians, Venezuelas, Cubans, Argentinians, etc. in South Florida (and, ya know, IN Latin America).
I'm sorry but if you marry a green eyed Colombian and you're an Italian American.... you aren't in a "Mixed race relationship." Inter-ethnic? Cross-cultural? Sure.
That's like saying if you're a German American and you marry a Spaniard or Portuguese person you are marrying out of your race!
If my great-grandfather raped your grandmother, killed your grandfather, stole your property, and kidnapped your mother, I'd feel personally responsible for compensating you for my great -grandfather's transgressions.
Your premise is flawed. Technology didn't make the European colonials "more brutal." It made conquer more efficient at doing what was otherwise the norm. However, they really weren't any "worse" than other examples of empire. Lest we forget the Ottomans were essentially one of the longest lasting, pervasive and brutal empires of all time. The European colonization period of the middle east was a mere blip compared to the middle eastern colonization of Europe. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years difference.
You cannot show that the Arab slave trade in Africa, for example (which pre-dated the European slave trade and persisted AFTER the European slave trade) was "more devastating." In fact, the Arab slave trade was PART of the European slave trade, since they ran the trading posts along with indigenous Africans and SOLD the Africans to the Europeans.
You cannot demonstrate how 1400 years of colonization and invasion of Europe by MENA Muslims was more benign.
IN fact, given that Europe was the brunt of invasion, slavery and conquer from Africa, the Middle East and Asia for centuries, one could almost say European colonization was turn-about and fair play (retribution, if you will). Against all except the native Americans who mostly perished of low tech means of exposure to old-world diseases.
I owe nobody NOTHING. YOU really owe nobody nothing. Our very legal system contemplates that INDIVIDUALS are responsible for their own actions, and that the son does not bear the punishment of the father. If we want to implement that philosophical model, then let's do it at ALL levels of justice. Your brother or father steals from me, then YOU can be sued or sent to jail for what THEY did. Sounds fair, right?
In the end, if YOU want to personally make some sort of reparations, you do that on your own time, and your own dime.
Well you better do some investigating and be ready to open up your wallet. I am sure some relative in your past did something to someone else that requires reparations. How far do you go back? 241 years? This could cost you quite a bit.
Pathological white guilt.
NO other peoples have this, despite having ancestors that were absolutely horrid.
Why do we suppose it's only white Europeans who are called to task to address the sins of their forefathers?
It doesn’t matter because white Jews are not the gatekeepers are Judaism. Many of African Jews are bloodline Jews and there is nothing the white Jews can do to change that.
It doesn’t matter because white Jews are not the gatekeepers are Judaism. Many of African Jews are bloodline Jews and there is nothing the white Jews can do to change that.
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