Re: Warning (for Gisele) Contains anti-liberal material

"Gisele" <Gisele.37bfzq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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And if you grew up hearing stories of your own ancestors, not
that very
long ago, being brought to this country in those circumstances,
you
don't think that would have any effect on you?

I don't see why should it? That was then, and this is now. I'd
venture to bet that if we went far enough back into history on
any of our ancestors, we'd find stuff that wasn't all that
pleasant. That's life. We deal with what comes our way. To cry
the blues over something that happened to our *ancestors* is flat
ridiculous, IMO. We each have enough to deal with in the here
and now without rehashing things that happened to our ancestors.

If I had ever owned a slave, then, yeah, I can see where someone
might have a beef with me over the slavery issue. But I haven't,
so they don't.

I'm reading a book right now about the Freedom Riders who
risked jail,
beatings and worse so that black people could ride buses in
this country
from one state to another. This happened in my lifetime, that
blacks
had sit in the back of the bus or get off the bus entirely if a
white
person wanted that seat. There are people who are still alive
today who
were maimed during those freedom rides.

Happened is past tense.

Karen C.


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