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Posted on 6/22/20 at 1:24 pm to TideWarrior
Posted on 6/22/20 at 1:24 pm to TideWarrior
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I asked someone yesterday the same thing. I guess all Catholic churches and Jewish synagogues are next. The colonization of the Americas, slave trade, and support of the founding fathers to commit treason and allow slavery to flourish in this country was mainly supported financially by the Catholic church and Jewish bankers in the Denmark and surrounding areas.
Careful Warrior, that kind of talk could be construed as Facist, neo-Nazi dogma.
See how easy it is to find reason to be offended if one so chooses? I'm not condoning the history you describe, but if I choose to be offended, I am living in the past and am held prisoner by it. It becomes a crutch that explains every failing in my life so I don't have to accept my responsibility for my circumstances.
I am also not making light of the systemic racial inequities that are no doubt present and prevalent. Those things must change so people of color don't have to work twice as hard to attain the same recognition of others. I simply use the above to illustrate how it has been taken and continues to be taken to the extreme.
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Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:09 pm to phil4bama
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Careful Warrior, that kind of talk could be construed as Facist, neo-Nazi dogma.
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See how easy it is to find reason to be offended if one so chooses? I'm not condoning the history you describe, but if I choose to be offended, I am living in the past and am held prisoner by it. It becomes a crutch that explains every failing in my life so I don't have to accept my responsibility for my circumstances.
I am not offended by any means just find it interesting the blame is so easily placed but yet it is no where close to the mark. I mean at statue placed on the university grounds that represents a student who died is now the blame of slavery in this country.
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I am also not making light of the systemic racial inequities that are no doubt present and prevalent. Those things must change so people of color don't have to work twice as hard to attain the same recognition of others. I simply use the above to illustrate how it has been taken and continues to be taken to the extreme.
Exactly. You can take down every statue, symbol, or whatever and it will not change what has happened or create change. Right now it is an outlet for those angry and nothing more. Nothing that some hope it will accomplish will happen on the current course it is going. We need real change long term.
Posted on 6/22/20 at 2:19 pm to phil4bama
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Those things must change so people of color don't have to work twice as hard to attain the same recognition of others.
What industry are you referring to here?
It can't be professional athletes. If you don't put in the work you don't succeed no matter your race when it comes to sports.
The same can be said for practically every other profession. For the most part, in my experiences, the person receiving the recognition is the person who put in the most work.
I mean, yeah, there are certainly cases where a white person is selected for a promotion over a Hispanic or black person where they probably weren't the most qualified candidate, but it goes both ways with Affirmative Action.
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