Quote:
Originally Posted by La lamy
Finally! Now we also get to see all the black haters on this forum!
|
WRONG!!!
It has absolutely nothing to do with "black hate". I don't know about others, but personally I've had a ton of black (and Jewish and Asian) friends---more in NY and less in TV but that is due to the demographics here. My best friend in grade school was one of the only blacks in a lily white Long Island community.
The issue is revisionist history----trying to erase an injustice by throwing money (reparations) at it, changing the vocabulary (New Speak), or lowering the bar in competition (college admissions, APGA, etc.). I have absolutely no "white guilt". While plantation owners were exploiting slaves in the South 200 years ago, my ancestors were in Europe. I owe their descendants ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
We can't change history. We can study it, we can learn from it, and we can certainly know enough not to repeat it (I hope). But we can't repair it and shouldn't try. Let the statues of confederate leaders stand as a reminder of what was wrong, otherwise those tearing them down are no different from the "firemen" in Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.