Do you agree that every race/culture in the U.S except Whites have been persecuted?

Question

When I say whites, I mean - assimilated, americanized whites.

Not Irish, German,
Just American, good ole' pilgrims.

I am asking this because, isn't it kind of messed up.

Native Americans, Blacks, Japanese, Irish, Jews, Chinese, Mexicans...

I'd name more but well..
too many to count, right?

And this question is by no means racist or against anyone. It's a general question me and friends are debating. Or its a realization, a contemplation.

And even if it is, or isn't true- why do you think that cultures have been so much persecuted in different ways?

When the Native Americans were sent to reservations,
when the Japanese were placed in re-location camps? Segregation with the blacks? Another question is, why do you think those events happened?

Another question: Are these things carried on today in small ways?

It's just a question that I want to find the answer. Not a debate. I'm only 16, I have to learn these things someway.

Answer 1

If you bother to check, you will find that there use to be White slaves in the USA, and they were treated no better than any other slave.

Do you feel persecuted?

What is your legitement reason for this?

Were you ever a slave?

My ancesters were Cherokee, but I don't go around whining about the treatment they recieved in the past, trying to gain sympathy for myself..

The past is past. Grow up and get on with your life.

DE

Answer 2

From the way you make the question, the answer would seem to be yes, but the answer is no. What does assimilated, Americanized whites mean?

Mormons were assimilated and Americanized, but they were persecuted.

Catholics and Jews can be assimilated and Americanized, and have often been persecuted by different groups.

Southerners, after the Civil War, were often discriminated against in the North. Many of them were white.

So, to be honest, the question is faulty. There is no right or wrong answer, because the question doesn't define what you are really asking.

Answer 3

Hey! You're going far.
Let me guess the answer to the first question that strikes my fancy. I'll use the history notes I read and may use some of my own psychi to fill in the gaps.

Why did all this happen?

We keep over crowding the planet and no one has put together a space program that has even been close to getting us humans to another planet. Even the movie made in 1938 called, "Things to Come" purports that civilization has reached this pinacle in time where we were prepared to reach out and find another planet, but they only sent the best couple of all mankind off in the shell. I mean it was a bullet shot from a cannon. Even if the couples ship made it to another planet the impact would have killed them.

So, where do you want to go next, question.
Why don't we take the one about the japanese, being put in camps, while the german put jewish to death in camps, U.S.A just kept the japanese in camps. While the Jewish struggled for freedom from the Egyptians white people were really Albino, not pink skinned. That's just to name a few. Norman's enslaved and slaughtered, dark brown haired people who they did not understand. Gaul's Frances people over populated France starting disease so horrible it wiped out many. While they fought war with a girl trying to save her people, she heard voices. Joanie of Arc you know.
Poor Nostrodamus went to college to learn medicine ended up practicing on people dieing from the black plague and actually saved grace because he saved his patients because he studied their environment, their habits, and prescribed medicine designed specifically for each individual. So, you could say, he was the first medical practicianer that did designer drugs.
I'm tired now and need to give my body a rest so I can soul travel over to see how the doctors without borders are holding up. One of them might need some souler energy from this old pagans soul while my body rests, to give one of them a little more strength to cure another ailing person. So....
For more:
Ask the merry "imacatholic2"! That person has all the answers. Doesn't have a curious bone in their body, but still answered 69,.000 other peoples questions. The person should be so proud.

Answer 4

Here's the thing, no, alot of White people haven't been persecuted in the US, but you must include the immigrants.. because besides the Native Americans, we all came from somewhere else! And everyone at some point was persecuted for what they were. For Religion, race, gender.. etc. since the beginning of time! When my ancestors came here from Ireland, they were treated unfarily too. You can't uninclude immigrants because they were white.

Answer 5

It's just ignorance. If you lived on an island where everyone looked like you, and you never knew that other people existed, if another person thats darker and different than you approached, what would you do? People in history werent as exposed to other races as we are today. Sure, today we think that racism is ignorant, but in the past there wasn't any of this "melting pot" or "ethnic blending" ideals. People in the past had so many wars and policies to argue about, surely Americans in the 1940's hated Japanese just because our country's leader at the time was at war with them.

These things carry on, no longer by race, but by many other factors like financial status, appearances, gender, attitudes, number of murders/crimes. People want to categorize each other, and as long as we keep putting each other in categories/demographics, racism/prejudice will never end.

Answer 6

I disagree.

The power elite, whose children are 'legacy' admissions to the Ivy League, haven't been discriminated against.

But many a Dustbowl farmer, small town victim of Wal-Mart, and manufacturing sector employee has felt the hot breath of mistreatment through no fault of their own, and many of these people fit the WASP description you give.

The funny thing is that today's power elite includes faces in all the minority groups you mention. Just ask Alberto Gonzales, Condoleeza Rice, and a few overpaid executives emulating the worst our power-mad society has to offer.

Don't try that old 'divide and conquer' tactic. We're all a little smarter than we used to be.

Answer 7

There are plenty of whites that have been persecuted in history look at the civil war not every white person agreed with slavery. A lot of white folks helped in the Underground slavery and were persecuted same as a black person for helping.

Answer 8

I dislike these kind of questions because I can't answer them w/o getting my account banned, so I have to abstain now. I do like to point out that in the New World (North and South America), the USA had only 5% of the total number of West African slaves. I wouldn't take anything seriously until this issue is discussed.

Answer 9

Well the first people to come to this Country were persecuted for their religious beliefs ...they were called the Pilgrims you see.
The y could not follow their own religion so they founded this Country for freedom .
So I guess the whiteys were the original persecuted race to begin with .

Answer 10

Read:"They were white and they were slaves" by Michael A Hoffman ii.Every race on the planet has suffered injustice in history.It just isn't PC to speak about Whites enduring any hardships.