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Originally posted by nostatic
that's easy to say when you weren't the race/culture that was enslaved/oppressed for hundreds of years...
"yo, our bad. Let's just call it even, ok?"
I'm not saying it is right, but it is reality...
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But that leaves us in quite a quandry -- doesn't it. Because history is full of incredible offenses committed by one group of people onto another. A short list for reference...
English against the Irish
Germans against the Jews
The Japanese against a whole slew of Asians
The Russians against most of Eastern and Central Europeans
The French against their colonies
The Belgiens against their Colonies
The Chinese against countless smaller cultures
The Turks against the Armenians
The Iranians and the Iraqi's
The Muslems against the Jews and Christians at various times, and the reverse at other times.
Various tribes of people against others (The Mohawks had a particularly bad reputation if my memory is correct)
The Homo Sapians against the Neanderthals
Etc.
etc.
Everyone's got a beef against someone else. If the only way to make it right is to stir up hatred and attack the other -- what's that say about our future? The only way out of the circle of violence is for someone at some point to forgive. When you forgive, you let it go. You don't forget necessarily, but you do have to let it go so that it no longer creates anger and hatred.
What Richards said and did was wrong. He obviously has a lot of hatred. But he's not the only person or group in our society who still filled with that much hatred. And until they let it go, it's just going to continue to eat them up from the inside out.