Pebbles49
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- Jan 27, 2014
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Kris10boo, I will try to answer your question best that I can... I am not skeptical of White people because I think most Blacks understand and learned how to judge people based on their character, if we do anything otherwise, makes us hypocrites...Many Blacks who grew up in a Middle class household were always told we need to work harder at everything and often times even after working hard, it is not good enough. The problem is, the horrendous acts that occurred, unfortunately, happened less than 40 or 50 years ago, still really fresh in our US history. I was 5, when I witnessed the KKK come down my street and intimidate my neighbors and forced us fear for our lives and leave town, I am now 50. These are not horrendous acts that I read from a book and learned about in school, no this is ingrained in my psyche. I never want to discount or minimize anyone history, but when you compare other ethnicity in the US, the severity of the prejudice, discrimination and separation is not the same.I'm probably not going to have any friends after this and I'm not being rude or but I'm trying to understand where y'all are coming from. Those stories are horrendous. I understand why everyone is skeptical of us white people and they think we are out to get others. There is bad apples everywhere. In every color.
I would understand you saying back then y'all had to work 5X harder but how do you have to work 5X harder then others today? You seem to have had a pretty good upbringing. You seem really intelligent. I wouldn't think you had to work any harder then a white person with a similar upbringing? I'm pretty sure we are all equal.
I'm really just asking because I don't understand so I do apologize in advance for how ignorant I must come across?
The people who came through Ellis Island, where given a chance to make a life for themselves and chose to come here, I don't believe anybody came here on a slave ship in chains, here not of free will and treated lowered than chattel. Many who were able to learn the language and educated were able to assimilate into American Melting Pot... However, for Blacks it was not easy because no matter how educated we got, due to our skin tones it is hard to assimilate into that Melting Pot... Even the Asians after a time of being discriminated and someone even mention the concentration camps and having their homes and land taken from them during War, after the War these Asians were given reparations for the wrong done to them... Again, no group of people have suffered being stripped totally of cultural, language, religion, family and name, but Blacks are told to fix it ourselves...
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