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? asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 6 years ago

When the past catches up with the guilty (racists), why do they try to present themselves as the victims...?

...and yelp in pain by making excuses to justify their actions in being on the wrong side of history?

More directly, I'm questioning how whites were adversely affected by the 345 year "Whites Only Culture." It's easy to prove the adverse effects upon the racially disenfranchised - since the Federal Gov. was compelled to pass new laws; thus ending the 99 year era of Jim Crow tactics upheld in the South

Update:

@ Deino: As a well read & soon-to-be published Author, the question was neither ambiguous nor philosophical. Nor did you attempt to deal with the question as it stood. Instead, you chose to lend your interpretation to explain to me what I meant. Deducing your own rationale and ascribing it as my motivation is quite a stretch! Actually, you lack the testicular fortitude to admit to the embarrassing hypocrisy my question exposes! And, since backed into a corner, you've brandished a strawman!

Update 2:

@saagi: Uncle Sam's 345 years of structural racism was systematic, not individual. Besides, your immigrant forebears had yet to arrive after the 1st American Revolution. Pretty sure they were trying to escape the poverty, disease and tyranny overseas. And since the "New World" was transformed into the "Land of Milk & Honey" by the forced and unpaid labor of the enslaved, your personal opinion pales in comparison to the facts.

Update 3:

@ Jeffrey: Since that's the best knee-jerk rhetoric you can offer, your ignorance of America's history is painfully apparent. For centuries, slave owners made it a crime to educate slaves. And after the Civil War, 99 years of Jim Crow laws prevented the racially maligned from attending most colleges and Universities. So, what disenfranchisement(s) were meted out to the beneficiaries of the 345 year "Whites Only Culture"?

Update 4:

@ Deino: "I don't know what the 345 year "Whites Only Culture" is...."

Exactly, you don't! Yet, you're guessing at what my position is and patting yourself on the back for being right! How delusional! Your feeble grasp of America's unedited history is not my cross to bear. I've studied it well and have begun posting bits of this censored information just to see the reactions of those of your ilk! And it's priceless! So, thanks!

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  • Deino
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The past shouldn't catch up to people who aren't guilty.

    Your proposition that anybody is "on the wrong side of history" and should pay some sort of penance for events that the same people are actively working to resolve and, to be fair, have had great success in doing to- even to the point where black people are empowered to try to guilt them- that's racist, bro.

    Once we achieve a point where the crisis is over, the non-racist thing to do is maintain the balance and try to live in harmony, not try and turn to tables to create more conflict out of some sense of superiority (racism) or a bitter grudge (weakness) or a lust for vengeance for crimes that weren't perpetrated against you, personally, by them, personally (criminality).

    Update:

    lol. Testicular fortitude?

    You want me to answer your stupid question? Why? It's mundane.

    But okay. Whatever you want:

    I don't know what the 345 year "Whites Only Culture" is.

    My guess is that it isn't actually a "thing" beyond the idea that white people have, for some centuries, been at the top of some artificial food chain.

    Because you are mentioning whites, I can only assume that you are presenting white people to be "racists," and if you're not, then the question isn't as explicit as you think it is because racists and complainers are not universally interchangeable.

    So, assuming that you are calling all whites racists who are complaining about race becoming a complication for them in the modern day, the answer to your question is:

    Complications are bad, and, regardless of history, when you suffer from something it makes you a victim of that thing.

    Does that clear your simple question up for you?

    Update 2:

    You're welcome, I guess.

    Have fun being angry at history and lambasting white people for not wanting to hold on to racism.

    And good luck getting published. That's always exciting.

  • saggi
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    That's not the case

    It's just that no one would ever protest, riot, or loot if I should experience an injustice whether I broke the law or not. All the non white, low incomed, underprivileged are proving is how well adjusted they aren't when they go all neanderthal if you dare to disagree with there political views. I may be a politically incorrect white male, but that doesn't necessarily make me the bad guy.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Because of what the Europeans have done over the years.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    6 years ago

    why are there no scholarships that can be given to white people based on their skin color?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    JEEZus, Nikky_Nutz one-in-the-same as 'house_broken'....do you know ANY other subject to at times incorrectly and other times I'm-the-smartest-one-who-knows-so-neener expound on??

    I just answered one of your old posts which you've not best-answered...Now I see the same case-load agenda here, with variants, and a different user name.

    You're obsessed with African slaves as the only injured hostages taken against their will....and us dirty white Christian Americans who won't just stop living and make it all go away and fix the rest of the world's hurts by just giving everyone else what we have and disappear. And so not cleverly wrapping it in a lacey, frilly...were the whites injured by their own policies? Kablah...

    As you know, all white Americans are responsible for every evil that has happened even BEFORE America existed as a nation. I know this because you said so in one of your diatribes. News flash...you're pretty wrong on oh, so many levels.

    I have a question that is actually about something important and work-onable....what about those who are being taken by the thousands and kept in slavery TODAY??

    You seem to think you know more than ANYone that answers you about any subject...due to your voracious reading of holy books and non-history books written by whomever...so please read up on ALL of the Earth's miserable history. Do you have any sympathy for the white slaves taken and are STILL taken all throughout history? In numbers that dwarf those taken out of Africa BTW...How about Asian slaves? NO ONE is without slavery in their background. No country has not taken slaves of ALL races since the beginning of record keeping. This world was built on the backs of slaves back to the beginning. All races, not just black. And not all black slaves were taken by white Christians for Christ's sake!

    I don't deny the evils done during that couple hundred years, I don't deny the devastaing lives THOSE people were forced to endure. I cannot fix the past. I will not give up my existence to try to do so. Neither I nor ANY in my much studied ancestry of dirt farmers and fishermen took any as slaves, but in the way-back, those Vikings who came before those I can trace DID take white slaves. Well, guess what? I can't help any of those English, Irish, Scots, Welsh or French slaves ancestors EITHER.

    The big difference is they aren't ASKING anyone to do anything. It is what it is. Keep on dealing and living and don't let that evil happen again.

    Please stop trying to grow bigger ones by stomping on every person who answers you contradictoraly here, and do some of that research you always throw in everyone's faces that you think makes you look superior to all, and read up on this. AND DO SOMETHING TO HELP...THEN you might be more worthy for whatever God you're into to actually shower whatever you want over you when you die.

    My God, the God of Abraham just shakes his head at all the scab ripping done by people who want people like ME to make the history of black slaves be never turned into a past, but something I have to give up everything to make up for...though none in my ancestry going back to Viking times took slaves at all. Here's your reading list for today, oh, and some of them help today's WHITE slaves, so I understand if you just skip over them....

    http://www.miramed.org/traffic.htm

    http://fightslaverynow.org/

    http://notforsalecampaign.org/

    http://www.antislavery.org/english/slavery_today/w...

    http://www.humantrafficking.org/

    Oh, BTW 'soon-to-be-published' (whatever...you do know there are kabillions of published NOBODY authors out there...I am one of them..it's why I'm here, flexing the muscle memory, wiping the floor up with your gnarly bad syntax..) if you're not doing your almighty prose in English, I guess it won't matter much. 'Well-read'? That is purely a matter of opinion, and not always YOURS. BTW, well-read is hyphenated.

    What or whom exactly is missing in your life that makes you need to not only slam down people who've taken their own precious time to answer something you put out there, as though you WANTED other people's answers/opinions, yet you make a concerted effort to squash any opinion that you disagree with, and in a supercillious, pompous manner? You do know you don't simply disagree, you need to flaunt your self-perceived giant brain in each retort, right? You keep spouting off about "aha!! I read this book so I know better than you"...then you name drop or accomplishment-drop to make people think you're all-that, inter-cranially speaking...but I've found that it's the empty people who are usually the ones who have to toot their own horn like that to get ANY feeling of fullness ego-wise. You on the other hand have a bull-horn and blow a train whistle into it to get this attention).

    I'm only posting as a response to your rather terse calling out of answering posts...Don't really give a crap about your subject matter....or your superior intellect that I like to call a wealth of ignorance.

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