Reply #9: Good article, but one passage pisses me off [View All]

[elkston]

This line from the aunt which contrasts Obama with slavery descendants infuriates me:

"Well I reckon there's a difference," she said. "Those still want to blame you and I for what happened to 'em. In reality, it was their own people who sold them into slavery for money. Their people did it to 'em. But if somebody came of their own accord, it might not bother him so much."

So it's OUR fault completely that we were denied freedom, had our families broken up, and even after that refused compensation to help us build futures post-slavery?

Yeah, we have a chip on our shoulder. We were treated like SHIT for decades and then when we were finally given LEGAL rights, expected to "catch up" with the rest of society in a generation. So while we are still working on that (and making progress), those that DO excel are still considered inferior, lazy, untrustworthy.

I certainly hope for a future where we are all judged as individuals and not chained to some past legacy. That goes for blacks and whites.