Posted by
FeargalX on Monday, March 09, 2009 9:18:10 PM
Obama’s association with bigots made little difference in the election. Because of ignorance of history and blatant bigotry, statements of people like Jeremiah Wright and Barack Obama are excused – and are even given the sanction of partial truth.
Slavery and separate but equal were not “good” things – but what do they have to do with “white” people? While those who owned slaves “looked white” and those who were slaves in the U.S. “looked black” slavery really only existed in a pocket of ethic groups. That is, almost all black American slaves came from a Region in Western-Central Africa – and almost all slaveholders were from the British Isles/Spain/France/Portugal. It neither involved most “white” ethnic groups, nor most “black” ethnic groups. To suggest otherwise is to assert cultural ignorance.
The ignorant and bigots, likewise, would observe that someone who “looked” a certain way would have had to attend a separate school, or stayed in separate inferior accommodations and would be denied due process if they could be transported back to America of 50 or 100 years ago – but would forget that the Duke Campus and black on white crime places people who “look white” in a clear position of being subjected to “worse” treatment. Scholarship and employment opportunities are what they are – they mandate different standards for different “looking” people.
Post-slavery, the “victims” and “perpetrators” were largely the same as the parties between 1700 and 1860. Immigration patterns are what they are (Southern/Eastern Europeans primarily went to the North, not the South).
On a stark level, what “history” of bigotry and racism do Estonians have in “oppressing” Sudanese? The answer is a resounding “no such history.”
Whatever America ever did to black Americans, was it really worse than being complicit in the unnecessary destruction of Dresden at the end of WWII?
The answer from Obama and Wright is that “you” white people did (fill in the black). However, history and facts tell us that Obama’s ancestors were slaveholders in America – you would be hard pressed to find a Sami, Sorb, Estonian or Bulgarian who owned black slaves in the U.S. Moreover, a large number of Obama’s ancestors were English – a ethnicity that dominated Ireland for 800 years – and much of the rest of the world for over 200 years.
Some people do not like “black people” (though some bigots will distinguish “black Americans” from “other” blacks). Some people think all East Asians are good at math – and some think the Japanese are the “natives” of Japan (they are from China, the natives are the Ainu ethnic group). Ignorance, over-generalizations and stupidity is rampant. The worse form of bigotry is violence (hands down). Sticks and stones break bones, no name does that. Yet, political correctness on campus means that certain violence is “acceptable” because of “racism” – but even questioning affirmative action is not permitted.