DeadsetAce
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word i can agree with thatOriginally Posted by Im Not You
Originally Posted by DeadsetAce
Im Not You - i see your point. but i think theres a difference between asking people to forget about slavery and asking people to stop using it as an excuse. obviously it had an impact on black people, no one is going to dispute that. but to just cite that and then not work to better your situation is ridiculous. and im not saying you're doing that or someone else here is, but i think that's what people mean when they say don't dwell on it. like, it happened, it messed a lot of $#$@ up, but lets move on and work on getting to where we want to be.
and im not sure what forums you're reading, but if people are saying that you should literally forgot it happen, then i wouldnt even bother reading that garbage. it's not something that can be forgot as if it never happened.
By all means...I'm not saying that it is an excuse...I'm saying it's one of many reasons for the current state of our people. An excuse implies that you're placing guilt on another party. I'm saying many of problems in not only our inner cities, but even in our mid-high class suburbs (highly affluent black areas)...stem from slavery. The color complex we have amongst each other (light skin/dark skin)...the violence between each other...the educational incompetence in our school systems...the absence of the man from the household, etc...all can be traced BACK to slavery. That doesn't mean if Black Kid A drops out of school, lives a life of crime and ultimately ends up in a casket that's the result of slavery. But rather the mindset that generated the thought process behind those decisions...stem from a DEEP, DEEP, DEEPLY embedded by-product of slavery...AMONG a plethora of other things...and not ONLY slavery.