Many whites are ashamed, saddened, and feel guilty about our history of slavery, Jim Crow, and gross racial discrimination. Many black people remain angry over the injustices of the past and what they see as injustices of the present. Both blacks and whites can benefit from a better appreciation of black history.
Often overlooked or ignored is the fact that, as a group, black Americans have made the greatest gains, over some of the highest hurdles, and in a shorter span of time than any other racial group in history.
For example, if one totaled up the earnings and spending of black Americans and considered us as a separate nation with our own gross domestic product, we would rank well within the top 20 richest nations.
A black American, Gen. Colin Powell, once headed the world’s mightiest military. Black Americans are among the world’s most famous personalities, and a few black Americans are among the world’s richest people such as investor Robert F. Smith, IT service provider David Steward, Oprah Winfrey, and basketball star Michael Jordan. Plus, there was a black U.S. president.
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The significance of these achievements cannot be overstated.
When the Civil War ended, neither a slave nor a slave owner would have believed such progress would be possible in less than a century and a half—if ever. As such, it speaks to the intestinal fortitude of a people.
Just as important, it speaks to the greatness of a nation in which such gains were possible. Nowhere else on earth could such progress been achieved except in the United States of America.
The issue that confronts us is how these gains can be extended to about one-quarter of the black population for whom they have proven elusive. The first step is to acknowledge that the civil rights struggle is over and won. At one time, black Americans did not enjoy the constitutional guarantees as everyone else. Now we do.
While no one can deny the existence of residual racial discrimination, racial discrimination is not the major problem confronting a large segment of the black community.
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I think it's proven that BLM isn't about black lives, it's about destroying America and her values.
ReplyDeleteI have Irish ancestors who were enslaved and Ukrainian ancestors who were enslaved. I am not a victim. I am not responsible for Africans who sold their peers into slavery. I have no guilt. Grow up and take responsibility for your life.
ReplyDeleteI”m part Irish, so I’m not ashamed or feeling guilty. My forebears came here in1661 and had a life a lot worse than the Africans.
ReplyDeleteI don't feel bad. Why would l?
ReplyDeleteWe all can benefit from one another, moving forward together.
ReplyDeleteKeep complaining about the past - which none of us were a part of, will only keep the mindset of the past in play. Anger, Hate, prejudice, upper and lower classes (uhhh there is NO middle class anymore)
We are better than that AND I will mention a specific phrase stated in 1963 on the step of the Lincoln Memorial - 'we shall overcome".
Keep word "WE".
UNITED states of America!
I feel no guilt either.
ReplyDeleteMy ancestors were not wealthy Jewish Merchants nor were they powerful African warlords.
Hahaha. My sister married a Jewish guy. Good guy. She always said " I married the poorest Jew in captivity.
DeleteHaving guilt is a mental disease. it is called dwelling and normal people do not dwell especially on something they can not change. Same with blacks dwelling on slavery, lynchings etc. This is not what people of sound mind dwell on. This is about the only thing all of this is proving is that we really have a large segment of the population who need psychiatric help.
ReplyDeleteI feel neither shame nor guilt, only amazement at how, as a group, "they" have had and still have inadequate and too often reactionary leadership role models in government, groomed and supported by the shameless, profiteering MSM, entertainment industry and odd celebrities. It's a huge, subtle trap not appreciated by many, certainly not by enough. More need to be educated from within. Please get busy.
ReplyDeleteI have no shame or quilt and many people like me say the same. These people have had every chance for the 50years or so and for most they pissed it away one way or another. Racism is here to stay. I didn't see or hear much of it until Hussein took office and it went down hill from there. By the way, the article is wrong...Hussein was half black-half white...smh..mho
ReplyDeleteAmerica is melting pot of all Nations. Blacks in this country are no more discriminated against than Jews. I am not sad about slavery. My family had nothing to do with slavery. We give our all in this country so no race should demand more. It is White people who are paying the price (middle class) . Even Dreamers are treated better than American born. Enough already.
ReplyDeleteBlacks are the ones who should be ashamed for tearing our country apart. It's disgraceful. There is not a living person alive today who had a slave, so it's called "history". My ancestors had it worse than slave . They had no one to feed them and house them. They would have had it a lot easier if they had been "owned" and those things provided for them. Instead they did for themselves or they died.
ReplyDeleteThe Marxist use race to destabilizing the country they are working on behalf of foreign nations and will turn on blacks as soon as they gain power
ReplyDeleteAll the Insults are to White History !!! White Lives Matter !!!!
ReplyDeleteWe can rant and rave,root,riot and pillage about cultural and race divisions wealth inequality,beliefs, morals and values and story book histories and could be wiped out by a virus. I think everyone needs to appreciate the very unlikely hood of our being at all and we have even gotten this far along without destroying each other and the Earth.
ReplyDeleteBlacks have been programed from birth to play the victim. Get over on every program they can. The Democrat party have them as slave's. They like it. Need to be told what to do. When to do. Why to do. Never thinking for themselves. WHY?? THEIR SLAVE'S AND LIKE IT!!
ReplyDeleteSegregation
ReplyDeleteDon't see ANY Black statues or Flags being torn down !!!
ReplyDeleteAll the Insults are to the Whites since Affirmative Action !!!
ReplyDeleteThis Wrongful Law needs to be Thrown OUT !!! Long Overdue
I'm not guilty. My sister-in-law is 1st Generation Japanese American. Should she feel guilty about Pearl Harbor? None of us that are alive had anything to do with slavery!
ReplyDeleteOut of one side of your mouths you all say, “it is past history, get over it”. And out the other side of your mouth you say, “you can’t remove Confederate monuments- you erase history”
ReplyDeleteAmerica is a Majority WHITE country & they are NOT going to Give their
ReplyDeleteCountry AWAY !!!
Get used to it & if you don't Like it >> LEAVE !!! Tuff shhhht !!!
The Whites fought & died in ALL the Wars of the world to SAVE the
World & incl AMERICA , FAR more than ANYONE ELSE !!!
The Rest would ALL be DEAD today if not for the WHITES in AMERICA !!
In WW2 Hitler & Tojo would have Killed Off everyone else Before the
ReplyDeleteWhites, so THANK the Whites for Saving YOU !!! Be Grateful 2020 !!!
The ones left alive they did Not KILL > WOULD BE a Slave !!! Think !!