Posted by all3 on 9/26/2019 11:30:00 AM (view original):
Because I want people to enter this Country legally, learn the language (even if it's technically never been made "official"), and expect to fend for themselves, others call me racist. Because I hate quotas of all kinds for any reason, I am called racist. TO ME, those are total BS reasons to call someone racist. I believe everyone should be treated equal (not discriminated against, but also nothing special), and try to live my life that way. I know that, my friends and family know that, so I don't really care what people looking to argue on the internet think. I don't waste my time trying to convince them of anything, because it will never happen.
I've read and re-read these last 2 pages trying to figure out who (and WHERE) called all3 racist. His comments seem directed at me, yet I know I didn't call anyone a racist. My only point is that it is rather difficult to conclude guys like ME and all3 understand what it REALLY meant to be living Black in our White man's world in 1720 or 1830 in SOME locales. That's what I said, precisely. That concept has the assumption that all3 is a white guy (likely) younger than me. Maybe I'm wrong on that. But I'm not wrong about our people's (our ancestors here in America) values included "possessing" other human beings for the purposes of harnessing their labor as property or "chattel". I stand by my idea that a modern era white man (myself included) doesn't really GET the reality of that "value" being a part of OUR ways.
It has always been so In these United States. This is/has been a white man's world. To deny that is to attempt to live in denial. That river doesn't flow in MY Country, nor is it on my continent. I won't can't be in denial. It ain't me. Babe.
Which is why I question all3's remembrance of good ol American values. And why I say which values are you longing to get back, and from when?
Not everybody's remembrance of 1800ish society round these parts is so fond of certain values we (our PEOPLE) held.
Quite frankly nobody cares whether all3 is a racist, or not. Like me, he's just an internet typer with an opinion.
Usually, a predictably biased one.