Quote:
slavery is a black eye on our country. if you're an american, you share in that legacy.
i'm not sure what the problem is.. it reminds me of people who think that we should just forget about the holocaust because it's supposedly buried in the past. |
I can't say I follow your argument. My family is German. I don't feel any individual guilt for the holocaust. Neither do I suggest that we should "forget about the holocaust". That is ridiculous.
Slavery was the great cancer in the heart of our republic. Over 600,000 Americans died violently in removal of that cancer. The Civil War was necessary, if not sufficent. We are still working through the legacy of slavery.
The evil of racism starts by categorizing people based on group charactersitics. If we are to find any resolution to the issues of race in America we must start by judging people as individuals, not as white, black, yellow or brown. I can't see how a parade of buffoons with toy chains can materially help in that process.