Is there anyway that we the Americans can leave the past in the past and move on with our future and our lives. When will we get tired of all the hate and abuse that is going on.
2007-02-25 03:43:57 · 12 answers · asked by brenda72804@sbcglobal.net 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
alot of yall are misunderstanding me. I myself wish it would end. I was not there so why should we dwell on it. all iam asking is do you as a person think it will ever end.
2007-02-25 04:53:48 · update #1
There isn't an American living today that was a slave. If there was one out there he would be 150 years old or more and he would say Shame on you, what are you complaining about, forget about it, its over and done. The Irish were slaves once too, and the Polish, and a lot of others. Forget it.
2007-02-25 03:51:34 · answer #1 · answered by billy 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
When people wake on up and realize the world doesn't owe them a damn thing that they aren't working for. I did not, nor do I own any slaves. There are no living ***** slaves in the USA today.
To "African Americans", I say this: Quit blaming your shortcomings as a segment of society on the white man/woman. We aren't making you lay up and have ten babies by nine different men, because nobody can be arsed to go to the drugstore and buy a box of rubbers, or go to the health department and get a box for free, no questions asked!
We aren't making your kids not learn when they go to school, and we sure as dickens aren't teaching them to act like little hellions out in public, nor, are we teaching them that it's not cool or "acting white" to get an education and better oneself. We aren't teaching them that you don't need an education, all you have to do is bounce a ball or babble over samples off of a record and get rich, and not have the sense God gave a billy goat.
I put "African Americans" in quotes for this reason: you AIN'T from Africa, allright? You're from the United States and born of United States Citizens. (You being used in a general sense, calm down!) Hell, I don't ask people to call me a Scots-Anglo-Teutonic-Native-American blend, now do I? Not hardly. I'm just a regular old Southerner, thank y'all very much.
All I have to say is this: if you know that your folks are living in a messed up situation, stop a minute, look around, and ask why. After 400 years in the United States, as a race, and immigrants who've only been here four years do a hundred times better, well, now that right there would tell me that something was wrong somewhere.
2007-02-25 12:09:13 · answer #2 · answered by Tennessee_whiskey6969 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Quit bringing it up as an excuse for societal conditions today. Using slavery as an excuse for the condition of blacks in America is like picking a scab--the skin doesn't heal, and the wound gets uglier.
There is no reason why blacks should feel at any disadvantage in America today. If immigrants from other countries can succeed here, often without the benefit of good English language skills, there's no reason blacks can't do it, too.
2007-02-25 11:49:54 · answer #3 · answered by Guncrazy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i am sorry to say but black in america are only distavantaged in their own minds. every other ethinc group that has come to the united states has managed to flourish. why not the black community. noone is holding them back.. no more than the irish the italian the greeks the poles the chinese or anyone else was help back. If you say that poles and italian and greeks are whites then about the chinese and koreans? tehy are as visibile a minority as the blacks yet they have flourished like no other.
Problem is that its much easier to blame things on others than go get a job
2007-02-25 12:21:53 · answer #4 · answered by bob j 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should be easy to get over. Knowone alive ever indured slavery nor did they own a slave. I also think blacks wouldn't be as racist if they knew almost all slaves were sold by other black tribes.
2007-02-25 12:44:39 · answer #5 · answered by brewer82 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well since I was never a slave and have never known anyone who ever was, I think I can put a past I've never expierenced behind me.
2007-02-25 12:43:03 · answer #6 · answered by Annabella Stephens 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes - shutting up and realizing that slavery doesn't exist anymore. Delegating those who persist that it does as meaningless whiners instead of people to be listened seriously to.
2007-02-25 11:56:29 · answer #7 · answered by Prideful 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can as soon as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are not taken at their word as spokesmen of the entire African -American race.
2007-02-25 12:05:41 · answer #8 · answered by jtjt60 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When we do away with all of the social give away programs, put all AMERICANS to work, and everone pays taxes and are treated the same.
2007-02-25 11:48:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah! it's called being kind and respectful to each other, just like mommy taught us when we were little. I'm with it!
2007-02-25 11:48:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋