I Would Like to Talk (Civilly) About the Generalization of "White People"

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(09-27-2016, 01:48 AM)RICHMONDBENGAL_07 Wrote: The end of the civil war is 1865.  Slavery had been a part of the country's founding which is roughly 1650.  So we're talking more than 200 yrs of slavery.  Then we're also talking about minorities treated as 2nd class citizens for at least another 100 yrs (1865-1965, the beginning of the civil rights movement), segregation and all that.  My parents were part of that generation.  That is not that long ago, there are people that are still alive that experienced a lot of that.  So telling them to just "get over it" is ignorant at best, insensitive at worse.

This country was founded in 1783, when it won it's independence. So we're talking like 80 years of US slavery. Don't try to slap an extra 120 years of British people on America's list of faults. We don't hate Alaska because they used to be owned by the Russian Empire.


You know who else was treated as a 2nd class citizen? Almost every other group of people who initially came to America.

The Irish were universally despised because they would do work for the cheapest wages, "stealing" jobs from everyone else.
The Chinese were basically used as slave labor on the West Coast to build the railroads.
Etc

They just worked hard to integrate, and eventually did. If people want to integrate, they can. I think that's also why there's so much clashing going on in Europe over the Muslims immigrating in. If there's no real desire to make it work, it never will.