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Inherently? As in, is there an oppression gene and caucasians have it more frequently? I don't think so.
The fact is it takes a degree of power in some form to be able to oppress anyone and historically whites have had more power than other races.
The more interesting question is what would happen if the distribution of power were to change?
Same thing, different colors? :shrug:The fact is it takes a degree of power in some form to be able to oppress anyone and historically whites have had more power than other races. The more interesting question is what would happen if the distribution of power were to change?
Yes, my life as a whole is currently oppressing others.
Slavery is a scoff law in Islamic countries ruled by Sharia based laws.
Oh, Christians didn't mind it too much either, especially in the South. If we're bringing up religion, that is...
I think you meant SOME Christians didn't mind slavery. Since many Christians were heavily involved in the abolition movement.
Did you ever think that the schools in Detroit might share some of the blame for the shocking rate of illiteracy or is it entirely the fault of blacks?
As I understand it Detroit has had an overwhelmingly black city council for quite some time.Why aren't the blacks, who are the vast majority in Detroit, doing something to make their education system better?
Mostly in the north, though---- While there were pockets of southern abolitionist sentiment, it was mainly a northern thing.....
Oppression is not about individual actions. We live in societies of millions. This is the thing people don't seem to understand...
I am a white person who is abundantly aware of oppression affecting racial minorities, who has had very fruitful and productive dialogue with said minorities, and who has had a lot of success scrubbing my head of as much social racial dogma as is realistically possible.
But I went to a nice school and therefore I am highly literate. Our school was 98% white. The ghettos black people have been pretty much forced into for a plethora of reasons both historical and current don't have that advantage. Some can't even run 5 days a week, can't afford books, can't have science labs. I tutored some of these kids -- very motivated people -- and many of them couldn't even read at a middle school level. Trying to get them college-ready was all but hopeless in many cases, due to financial and educational barriers. Virtually none of these extremely disadvantaged students were white. You think that's a coincidence?
Who is currently responsible for the oppression that blacks face today?
Maybe if so much money wasn't need to be spent on things like security and such, there would be more money available for the school. Also, maybe if standards were set, and held to, the learning environment would be better. Fact is, schools in the U.S. get plenty of money per student. It's not a funding issue.
Oh, Christians didn't mind it too much either, especially in the South. If we're bringing up religion, that is...
A high average $ per student of instruction is very different than a high minimum $ per student of instruction.
So? Does that make it okay?
Nope.
Not this again. Of course it doesn't, but that does not stop slavery in Muslim nations today. This is not 1860.
Neither does pretending like slavery is something exclusive to Islam.
Well...they can afford metal detectors, extra fencing and security measures, police officers on every floor, ect, ect, ect. If, you know, the money didn't have to go to that then there would be more for actual education. If the neighborhood was cared for and developed, then they would have more taxes for even better.
I am not pretending. I am stating fact.
Based on that, i understand your view is that "it is too expensive to give them the same quality of education." Is that accurate ?
No, I'm saying that they aren't investing their time and effort into education on a societal level. It has absolutely nothing to do with the state.
I've always been well aware of America's history, both bad, and good. I don't buy into the revisionist version where America is overwhelmingly an evil, oppressive society. Obviously, over 150 years ago(a very long time BTW), there was slavery, followed by segregation. In this country, slavery involved black Africans. Its unfathomable to me that some people accepted it back then, and I'm from NC. But I also see the other side(which is generally ignored or minimized by revisionists), where slave owners only consisted of a small percentage of wealthy people, and MOST importantly, hundreds of thousands of WHITE soldiers gave their lives and/or limbs to free black slaves. That last fact has largely been ommitted.
But slavery and oppression are NOT Caucasian institutions. Racism, slavery, oppression and conquest are human inventions carried out by EVERY race. Native Americans stole land and people from each other. Latin Americans stole land in America from native Americans and oppressed them. Latino tribes like the Aztecs conquered lands from other Latinos, and then ripped out the still-beating hearts of their victims, and Muslims of N. Africa captured millions of white Europeans and forced them into slavery.
But over the past 12-15 years, I've heard many leftists attempt to condition Americans of all races into believing that white people are somehow more inherently evil in those sins, while the supposed "minority" races are somehow more justified, and essentially blameless for their actions. It seems to me that evil is evil, and skin color has nothing to do with it.....
What's your honest opinion, regardless of political correctness?
Can you expand on this a bit?