Homesick said:
Amen sister!
and this:
Exactly where I am at!
I had it pounded in me in school it was my fault! I'm Indian, what in the hell did I have to do with it? When I would stand up in school and say "no I did not have anything to do with it" I got the crap beat out of me!
The same is happening in schools today on every subject there is, lies, lies and more lies.
I went to predominately black schools, I didn't care but when Martin Luther King day neared and me being the only white student out of the 5 that were enrolled showed up (I was new, I didn't know) and was told when drinking from the water fountain that it was my turn to drink from the toilet because they owned the water fountains I was like WTF? Ofcourse I had some friends who were black, so that didn't happen. I fit in just fine with most of the people in school. That was at Potomac High School in Ft. Washington. I then went to Largo, where I was harrassed daily during the month of February about who I was going to do a report on for black history month. I finally got tired of it, stood up, flipped my desk over and went nose to nose with the bully. Did that make me hate black people? NO! I can not blame an entire nation for the ignorance of a few. I love to listen to MLK's speech. I think it is inspiring for all regardless of color! But just as I did not take out my frustration on a whole class of people, I don't believe that black people should either for slavery.
If they want to blame the public officials who allowed it to continue at that time, fine, I blame them to. If they want to blame the slave owners, thats fine, blame them but don't blame me and expect me to pay for something I did not do.
We deal with this same type of thing in court. So, if I was brought before a court and charged with slavery that was committed in the 1930's how would I plead? NOT GUILTY! And I bet even an all black jury would not convict me of being guilty of slavery so why should black people of this country act as if it is my fault or the fault of other white people who are here now? We NEVER want that to repeat, we never want anything like that to happen again. Before we are white or black or even indian, we are people, human beings and US Citizens. We all have the right to justice, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not say "If you are black you have the right to be defended by various black organizations, you have thr right to pursue exclusive college scholarships simply because you are black, you have the right to a job simply because you are black" We all should have the same righs. We all have the right to assembly, it does not say "You only have to the right to assemble as an exclusive group if you are black" But if we even tried to assemble as white people we would be call racist or clan members.
Tell me you see the difference here because there clearly is one!