I think we have to take our history as a whole. — Bitter Crank
I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/896420822780444672
How to treat the past — Bitter Crank
Reparations in some form or the other are needed if we want to see subsequent generations to become freed from the bigotry that is still so ingrained in our culture. Removal of the statues of historic oppressors is only one small step. — Cavacava
No, I don't agree. I think that a debt is owed, It needs to be repaid — Cavacava
Laws such as affirmative action — Cavacava
I don't doubt David Duke's remark to Trump yesterday. — Cavacava
By whom? People who never had anything to do with past injustices? Guess what, that would itself be unjust. So no, no debt needs to be repaid.
It's the law in the US.Which are inherently racist and counter-productive.
No, I don't agree. I think that a debt is owed, It needs to be repaid — Cavacava
By whom? — Thorongil
There are a lot of bigoted people in US. Just drop by your local service club on a Friday night and listen. — Cavacava
By the Nation — Cavacava
specifically to the black people who suffered under white oppression for 350 years — Cavacava
No, it is just, That's why we have laws like Affirmative Action, to attempt to offset past injustices. — Cavacava
No, it is just, That's why we have laws like Affirmative Action, to attempt to offset past injustices. — Cavacava
Beside Robert E Lee was a traitor, a turn coat...who should be abhorred as much as Benedict Arnold. — Cavacava
Arnold was born in Connecticut and was a merchant operating ships on the Atlantic Ocean when the war broke out in 1775. He joined the growing army outside Boston and distinguished himself through acts of intelligence and bravery. His actions included the Capture of Fort Ticonderoga in 1775, defensive and delaying tactics at the Battle of Valcour Island on Lake Champlain in 1776 (allowing American forces time to prepare New York's defenses), the Battle of Ridgefield, Connecticut (after which he was promoted to major general), operations in relief of the Siege of Fort Stanwix, and key actions during the pivotal Battles of Saratoga in 1777, in which he suffered leg injuries that halted his combat career for several years.
Despite Arnold's successes, he was passed over for promotion by the Continental Congress, while other officers claimed credit for some of his accomplishments.[3] Adversaries in military and political circles brought charges of corruption or other malfeasance, but most often he was acquitted in formal inquiries. Congress investigated his accounts and found that he was indebted to Congress after having spent much of his own money on the war effort. Arnold was frustrated and bitter at this, as well as with the alliance with France and the failure of Congress to accept Britain's 1778 proposal to grant full self-governance in the colonies. He decided to change sides and opened secret negotiations with the British. — Wikipedia, Naturally
TA-NEHISI COATESTwo hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.
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