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Originally Posted by Originalist
I'm sorry for the injustices your people suffered. But I will not apologize for what my ancestors did for me so that I would not have to endure what we are enduring now, the total destruction of the American way of life.
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So, in the context of this conversation, are you stating that your ancestors participated in slavery and you are glad that your ancestors participated in slavery?
If the American way of life was built (in sizable part) on the backs of slaves and the concept of white supremacy, when will those who suffered under such evils recover from the several hundred years of slavery and white supremacy?
Or do you think that the suffering and the results of all that evil will just be nullified in a couple decades?
Do you think the complete destruction of a people's sense of identity, the denial of the basic inalienable rights granted by God to all humans, the hundreds of years of nearly wholesale rejection by the country who stripped you of your identity in the first place-- do you really think that the people and their ancestors will simply, "recover all and move on" in a matter of decades?
Do you think that the country who perpetrated such evils on a people should just whitewash what was done and act like their actions have absolutely no bearing on the contemporary realities of that country?
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