04-18-2008, 12:53 PM
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Political Junkie
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 199
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TakuanSoho
Well, you stated as "a minority myself, I’d rather climb the success ladder knowing I got to where I need to be by my own abilities and not just because of my status. "
If you were a black whose ancestors who lived through racism, that statement would have some validity. However, if you merely came here 20 years ago, then it really wouldn't have any validity.
I mean it is easy for someone who has never experienced racism to say what you have, but it means more if someone who experienced it says it.
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Discrimination comes in many forms, not just racism, but also sexism, those with disabilities, etc. You think the only people to experience racism are blacks??? Try Jews, like probably a few of my ancestors who perished in the holocaust. You want to know real atrocities? Try having your ancestors burned in an oven, or how about gassed, shot in groups and thrown in mass graves? Slavery, though wrong, doesn’t hold a candle to this. You don’t see me going to tell today’s Germans to pay up for what my people have been through in the past.
What racism do blacks experience TODAY? There is a black man running for president, who also went to Harvard! Your entire argument fails here.
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