Not Our Proudest Moment
on 02/12/2012 at 11:14 AM
You’ve outdone yourself with this on Drew. I’ve been reading the links and saw the video.
Damn good post and an eye opener. Especially enlightening with regard to LBJ, who I never cared for. But I guess you can see how he would be influenced with regard to civil rights.It’s very hard for us as white Americans to put ourselves in the shoes of some of those troops who did mutiny. Never mind them. Bad example. It’s hard to put ourselves in the shoes of any negro who really did suffer ill treatment. The good got lumped with the bad and all painted with the same brush. Must have been particularly hard on those who did mutiny. I think you’d have to be pushed to the end of endurance to commit mutiny.
Having said all that, isn’t it pretty bad that with all the advancement since those times, that so many negros today still haven’t caught up. And this time I believe it is less race then it is that too many of them are living the stereotype and following false leaders.Another thing I found quite interesting was that
Neither the aborigine women nor the New Ginea women, will have anything to do with American Negroes.
What’s so interesting is that white women, and more so today, do accept them.
Read Herman Cain’s book - he explains his father’s take on the ‘civil rights’ movement- stereotypes be damned (oops my bad). Sorry but I disagree - Character and strong Christian values SHOULD preclude anyone from killing anyone else for any reason other than war (the enemy) and self-defense.
I’m tired of people excusing and/or explaining other people’s wrong and evil behavior simply because of ‘what’ happened - Not every white person owned a slave, called blacks n------ or strung one up from a tree. Talk about broad brush painting a stereotype.
Maybe, just maybe if Amazing Grace were viewed in TUCC instead of replaying Rev (Not So) Wright’s G--D--- America sermons (how can something so vile and evil be called a sermon)and maybe, just maybe if ALL Americans got a bit of REAL education, things would be different now.
The history of abolitionist movement existed as long as there was an America. Congress BANNED the importation of slaves in 1808 (32 years after America became America).
“From the 16th to the 19th centuries, an estimated 12 million Africans were shipped as slaves to the Americas.(see Slavery in the Americas)[9][10] Of these, an estimated 645,000 were brought to what is now the United States” (for those who can’t do the math - that comes to 5%).
A few facts change the picture greatly.
Yeah - and for your stories - I have WWII pictures the Navy took of mass island murders - piles and piles of island people killed by the Japanese just for not co-operating in their takeover - wrong is wrong. And in that time - a lot of killing was being done - sometimes it seems - just to kill.
Sorry but I disagree
Hi Wardmom. Not sure if you’re referring to me or Drew and confused as to what you do not agree with.
On a totally unrelated topic .... sent you a card today that I thought would give you a laff.
Re: The Japanese in WW2. Totally out of control and very doubtful there were too many who wanted to control their blood sport. Orientals, as they were once referred to, do not fight wars using the same rules that apply to the west. The Chinese and North Koreans and the
Vietnamese are just a few examples. And they certainly had no compulsion when it came to mistreating POWs and that included women. Brutal. But they weren’t Christians, while many of the Nazis were. Or at least they identified themselves as such.As for Negros in the USA, stereotypes exist for a reason or there wouldn’t be that word.
The question is, how many fit the type so often portrayed? My answer to that would be, far too many. Because far too many have been following false prophets. Or leaders if you will, who cry foul at the least little thing and are self serving egoists.
02/13/2012 at 06:04 AM
