JimBowie1958
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- Sep 25, 2011
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Much as I would like to provide an in depth reply, I am reticent to do so because the tone of your opening and closing statements suggest this thread has been created to entreat a discursive imbroglio.
Not at all, but you bring with you what experiences and values systems that you have acquired before this thread.
I know young people that think 'whites are losers' and it is due to the constant hammering whites get in the media 24/7, without the slightest apology or empathy.
Why cant we discuss the good things whites have done without preceding it with an apology to nonwhites?
Nobody in their right might denies that numerous white individuals have provided all manners and copious positive contributions to humanity. The matter of derisive comments about "white people" rests not on individual accomplishments but on rather on the impact modern era whites have had on the planet and on other people.
That is simply not true. I have met at least a dozen people who honestly believe that everything whites have done/made/invented was actually stolen from some nonwhites and have never invented anything or done anything positive for humanity what so ever.
There is no question too that in the United States the decried acts -- most notably slavery and its impacts -- were conducted on the whole in the interest of ensuring the supremacy of whites over non-whites.
No, that is not true at all. It was done to acquire profit and wealth, and before blacks were enslaved whites were enslaved, such as the Irish by Cromwell and the Europeans enslaved by Barbary pirates.
Also a good many free blacks in the US owned slaves themselves, in fact some of the largest slave farms were black owned.
Slavery was not a racial institution, though some nit-wits used racial stereotypes to justify slavery of blacks, just like the English used ethnic stereotypes to justify the enslavement of the Irish.
The institution of slavery may have begun as an economic and religiously driven thing, but it evolved by the 19th century into a ethic superiority thing.
In the view of some, no doubt, but then why did so many whites fight a war in overwhelming numbers to end slavery then if it was strictly a racial exploitation of nonwhites?
That remnants of the attitudes set down from the 1700s to the late 1900s continue to shape the thinking of individuals to day is the problem. Plantation owners of the pre-Civil War era were people of their time. You and I are of our time. The thing of which folks gripe these days is now that it's been clearly shown that whiteness confers not natural advantages, other than perhaps being somewhat better suited to less sunny climes, it is unjust to continue to harbor and allow to color (no pun) our attitudes about race. Of the three races on the planet, the only one that for hundreds of years harbored the hubris of self-supremacy over the other two has been the white race, Caucasians.
That is not true either. Most Koreans and Japanese I have met were all racist, by our standards, both thinking that their race was naturally superior to the rest of the world. The one Chinese man I knew, actually from China, for about 9 months was a blatant racist and despised Americans as mongrels and moral degenerates.
Most blacks I have met subscribe to the idea that they are racially superior to whites, and we got our advantage over them by having stolen so much technology from other groups that we overpowered them with it and enslaved them to contain the threat of a 'black planet', lol.
Does that apply to all whites? Of course not. But that's the thing. White folks have, in the course of their dominance on the planet, created a global culture where people were ranked based on racial composition.
We created the global culture? lol, I doubt that. Wearing a Western suit and tie does not equate to adopting Western culture.
I don't happen to believe that in the early years of Western Civilization's rise there was a deliberate "white vs. black vs. Asian" aspect to that happening, but it sure did come to be just that.
Again, I think the colonization period was driven by most European nations to get there and plant the flag before some other European nation did.
I dont see any evidence that it was due to whites hating minorities so much as whites hating, fearing and distrusting other whites, a hatred and fear that purged itself, God Willing, in the two past world wars.