[artplumber]

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

AP - Here's Todd's statement. It was in response to sammy's post. Show me some fact. This is pure opinion.

"You can deny the blame, but it's your legacy. Just as it helped you to get where you are, it is also your albatross. Payback is a beotch...welcome to the new world order."

There may be an opinion about payback there, but the rest is fact. How about this statement? Think it's only opinion too? And the AWM doesn't realize the privileged position he has held in this society for the past 200+ years. Or maybe he does, and doesn't want to relinquish it. Can't blame him...

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

The ironic thing is, the whiners that spray this kind of drivel are the very ones who are perpetuating the problem.

Nice denigration of anyone who has a different opinion than you.

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

They dwell on blame and payback - living in the past. We need to move forward and put racism and inequality behind us.

Except if your family is the one that got screwed (and may still be getting the short end of the stick).

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

Driving a wedge between cultures with divisive opinions serves no useful purpose and does more harm than good.

Nice self-serving statement. "If you say anything we don't like, you will make it worse than it is.."

Originally Posted by SLO-BOB

As far as your link - I read it. Can you go to China today, buy land, and be treated as an equal with no animosity? The answer is "No.". My point - again - is that kind of behavior is not unique to whites. My reference to other cultures, times, and lands was merely a comparison. What don't you get?

Once again this thread is about America not some other country. America - you know the supposedly "give me your poor....", blind-justice, equal-opportunity-for-all place. None of those other countries claim equality.

As to why to look back. How about the classic cliche "history always repeats itself"? We should learn from our mistakes not just forge ahead and hope it gets better.