Georgous opened this issue on Jul 24, 2003 ยท 41 posts
lhiannan posted Fri, 25 July 2003 at 9:22 AM
I'm going to say something here that may get me flamed, but so be it... In response to ChuckEvans comment "Probably more since a white person born today will have to bear the shame of something done by white people over 100 years ago. So, 200 years?" Yah, people have Looooong memories... I know some white people who still view blacks as if they should be slaves (I'm in the US of course), and I also know some black people who think they are owed something and deserve certain things just because over two hundred years ago, something really terrible and inhumane to their great-great-grandfather. And my father is 1/8 Cherokee, shouldn't he be getting some of that money and land and tax-freeness? Hmm, he doesn't seem to think so... he thinks he's "just American" and makes his own way in life, doesn't look for handouts, just because of the accident of ancestry... (Lhiannan is getting off subject and a little angry, so she will be leaving now)