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what do you think, has the white race man been making the proper decisions within the last 500 years?

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has the white man been making great strides or great stumbles and mistakes in the last 500 years, considering enslaving the Africans and the deplorable Indian wars of the 18th 19th centuries do you agree that the white man is to blame for the beginnings of the civil rights movement in the united states, and what could the white man have done and what can the white man do to enable peace between the races?

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would you consider the white race/man to be oppressive rather than superior to the blacks and native Americans, even though the white man has contributed greatly to tech advances space exploration medicine has the white man stumbled rather than risen in the past 500 years

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    White people did nothing worse than any civilization or color of people before or after them or during this time. Guess what? We bought slaves from AFRICANS who also owned slaves. We could have never bought slaves without black people selling us their own people. During the height of the confederacy, only 1.6% of white people owned slaves and more freed slaves owned their own people. The ARAB slave trade went on for a far longer time, militant islam spread through far more parts of the world, and dealt in both black and white slaves. Slavery still exists in the world but only the muslim one. The Indians had no concept of property rights or borders so they were constantly fighting brutal wars themselves between each other, reaching near genocidal levels at times. Some of them in lower parts of the Americas did human sacrifices and had slaves as well. White people just every color are not gods or infallible. They are prone to seeking power and their own self interests. They are prone to greed like everyone else. They are also capable of doing good and have spread positive traits of their civilizations. Also at this point, besides some Asian cultures they are the most civilized and advanced both technologically and socially. Other societies did similar atrocities or worse, or would have if they had the technology at the time or power, but they do not get judged. Why do leftists and social justice warriors only blame white people and hate them? Thats extreme hypocrisy with an ignorance of history and human nature. It also doesn't change the past or positively contribute to todays world. Its just ignorant children trying to look and sound intellectually superior when they are clueless.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No. The human species in general is an abomination, a vile pest species, a cancer to the world. I'm disgusted to be a human.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    There's plenty of history books on the subject, why not read some?

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