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Originally Posted by Ferich
hake: This is retarded.
You'll be suprised at how much all these comments on Americans being racists and what not are pissing me off. Because they're utter bullshit.
Slavery was pinpointed to only the South, it wasn't practiced in the North..so how does that tie in every American's ancestors to Slavery? Also another fact is, a boom in Immigration to this Country did not start till after the Civil War, in the early 1900's...and most of those families were kept in Ghetto's and lived side by side with other minorties at the time.
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I've already made this point, but if I'm going to be held accountable for the actions of an ancestor that I might have somehow had (even though both sides of my family came over in the late 1800s from Germany), then I fully expect for any African American to be prepared to take shit from me, considering they could very well have Egyptian ancestors who enslaved my Hebrew ancestors and treated them in a much more brutal manner.
I'm a bit disappointed that you won't scratch past the surface, Tripper. But there's your double standard right there. People who share my skin color abused people who shared their skin color for 250 years. And while slavery is never, ever humane, the treatment that blacks received as slaves was infinitely more so than the treatment that Hebrews received. But I don't hate or discriminate against blacks because it was black people that enslaved white people for thousands of years, do I? So what gives them the right? Nothing. Fuck that.