firstly i've stolen nothing from anybody nor can i control what people did before i even got here secondly my people were made for the cold, yours places with more sun that's just DNA and no i don't doubt that jesus was black i find it hard to believe that there was a white guy crawling around nazareth 2000 years ago as for rock music we just took and made it our own but i suggest we focus on more pressing concerns such as where we go from here as you can see the past will always be there what we do now is what matters
2007-04-14 09:45:21
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answered by Anonymous
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well first of all neither you nor anyone else can say what colour Jesus was because neither of us has ever met him, I'm sorry but everything we choose to believe in comes from the bible or whatever it is your religion reads, none of us truly know that any of it is actually true, at the end of the day they are just stories that have been passed through the ages. As for white people sleeping at night, well like i say, we were not there when all this 'history' happened so I'm damn sure I'm not going to lose sleep over something that happened long before my time, maybe if i were there i could have put up a protest against the wrong doings of my ancestors, but i wasn't so I'm not going to punish myself for it, and neither should you.
2007-04-14 09:47:39
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answered by xtina 3
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Almost all European (and therefore most of American)history and culture comes originally from Greece (whose culture was later stolen by the Romans, then rediscovered during the renaissance). The Greeks invented it themselves, or took others ideas and made them their own.
European history is 3000 years old in parts like Greece, 2000 years old in the Roman Empire. That's a pretty long time.
The average white person is clueless. So is the average black, asian or any other race. They're all just as clueless as each other - yet all have their fair share of enlightened people.
European people lived in caves tens of thousands of years ago - as did people in Africa. There have been ancient skeletons found in caves - particularly South Africa.
Here's a little wake-up call for you. History is only interesting when people are getting killed. Who gives a damn that Thrace signed a trading agreement with Argos or whatever. The Roman empire was at peace for hundreds of years. As were most enlightenment-age European nations. Undoubtedly European history has its fare share of conquest, hatred and extortion. Yet white people certainly do not have a monopoly on hatred; there was a thriving Berber slave trade hundreds of years before Europe's - and many African slaves were sold into slavery by rival tribes. I certainly don't take pride on my country's imperial past (take a look at my answer to any question related to imperialism) - but I don't see why I should have to answer to the mistakes of people whose actions I could do nothing about on account of not being born.
Jesus wasn't black or white. Jesus was Jewish.
I don't have a problem with the Egyptians being black, nor that there was a black Roman emperor, nor that the Mali had a thriving empire (yes - an extortionate violent empire) hundreds of years ago. Anyone who does will rightly be called a racist.
If white people stole rock music so did blacks. African music does not use a western scale, nor does it use western structure - rock music does. Black people took these western elements and combined them with their own music and the blues was a result. This was not 'stealing', it was influencing. If it was stealing the Beethoven stole the music of Mozart, who in turn stole it from Bach - because they all influenced each other.
And I just reported everyone who was racist. Happy?
2007-04-14 09:35:25
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answered by Mordent 7
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I believe the "clueless" one here is you for asking this question.
I myself am white and am of course offended by the generalizations and stereotyping that you have used throughout you babbling.
As for thinking Jesus is white, I think every culture "sees" Jesus (or whichever "diety" they believe in" to be similar to themselves. Most people I believe would not deny the possibility that Jesus is of a different race or colour, but that in personalizing Him with themselves they have made him their colour in their heads.
I also don't believe the colour of Jesus' skin should matter, as it shouldn't matter what colour anyones skin is.
I am VERY proud of my heritage and will not spend my life apologizing for what others have done. My ancestory comes from Austria and other Europian countries and I do not know of any of my family destroying anyone.
Oh and it should be "They stole OUR history..." not "they stole ARE history..."
2007-04-14 10:03:00
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answered by Anonymous
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First of all, my skin color is Caucasian.
Second, as to Jesus; he was neither black nor white, i believe hew was Jewish. That would make his skin color olive in nature. Egypt, is a nation that ha a very long history of mixed peoples, making their skin colors varying.
And you are correct in saying that the history of at least the USA is based on white bias. History is usually written by the predominate power of a particular region. Unfortunately the white settlers were a barbaric lot who conquered & killed, but like all of history, like the the Vikings, Romans, the Mongouls, the Greeks, The Persians, the Assyerians, the Egyptians...history is written by who is left after a conquest.
what you have written above is neither entirely accurate, nor is it all inaccurate.
I think to judge an entire race of people on what happened in the past is quite ignorant.
are all Germans bad because of the Nazis? are all Japanees bad because of Pearl Harbor? are all whites bad because of slavery? are all blacks bad because of gangs?
the answer in all these has to be NO! so try not to stereotype people because of their history of which they had nothing to do with, or because of skin color, or language they speak, or what block they grew up on. that is the kind of ignorance that made the atrocities happen in the first place.
be better than that, better than all of our forefathers. today is a new day, we are a new people, let us improve & move forward, no slide back into the hate of years gone by.
We are all one race
THE HUMAN RACE.
2007-04-14 09:44:52
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answered by Anonymous
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I sleep very well, I work my .... off in a factory and take care of my kids, hanging on by the skin of my teeth.
History is just that, something that happened in the past, I'm white.I didn't destroy the race of man, I have to deal with what people in the past have made of my world too, black, white Asian, whatever. life isn't easy for most of us. There are so many black people with good lives right now and its because they take advantage of whatever there is out there, for all of us if we can handle it and work to get it.
The claim that we stoled your history makes no sense, what??!!
2007-04-14 09:44:27
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answered by cindy 1
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You are right, and I don't sleep at night.
I have always wanted to leave civilization to be primitive again. I wish I could join one of the few remaining tribes of primitive man on the earth, but I'm white and I would never be accepted into any of them. It makes me sad. I wish I was a native american or a black person so I could leave all of this and go back to being an animal like we all are
2007-04-14 10:05:31
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answered by Anonymous
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Ya know, I think about history and the things that have happened to many different cultures, and it makes me shake my head. There were terrible injustices against many different cultures and races. One thing that I think so many people fail to realize is that YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE PAST. All you can do is try and make the present and future better! I fail to realize how rehashing the past injustices and continually reviving hate helps people. How 'bout we focus on the present and try and prevent those things from happening again and make the world a little better place to live??
2007-04-14 09:33:21
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answered by Kimmie 4
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Wow. Please don't stereotype all white people just like I won't stereotype any other race. I am white and don't catergorize anyone as lazy, stupid, etc. It isn't right. There isn't once race that every person in that race can fit into the exact same catergory. I know that Jesus wasn't white and that doesn't bother me one bit. Why should it? It doesn't change anything for me. I'm sorry but you are doing exactly what you're saying you hate. You're trash talking an entire race for trash talking another one. What makes you different?
2007-04-14 09:32:22
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answered by Anonymous
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Clueless? White is a color not a nationality. Germans, Norwegians, and so forth all have REAL HISTORY. Only difference is we tried to wipe your ignorant azz of the face of this Earth. As for Jesus being black, I'm speachless on the size of your head.
2007-04-14 09:48:01
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answered by Anonymous
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