Re: dogma protests

The Laughing Man (the_laughing_man@hotmail.com)
Fri, 03 Dec 1999 09:51:09 +0000 (GMT)

>Nobody even knows if they're related to the slaves or not.  They don't 
>care.
>They want us to pay them back for stuff that we aren't responsible for, and
>they didn't go through.
>

A lot of questions pop up in my swollen little head:

Who are ‘they’ here, exactly? And ‘us’?
What is it you don’t think these ‘us’ are responsible for?

I ask, because it looks like you are trying to say that it is not known 
whether now living Afro-Americans have ancestors that were slaves or not. 
And that the white majority in power is not historically responsible for 
that slavery.

But I hope I’m reading you wrongly.

That you’re really saying something to the effect that there must be a 
limitation to the use of the ‘white guilt’ argument. That not every colored 
person is an ancestor to a slave, and even if they were it is history, we 
now have such an equal society there really is no need historic arguments at 
all.

I would disagree with a lot of that second reading as well. But I could at 
least understand it.

/TLM

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