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Originally Posted by Rhuma7
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As long as people can look at a dark skinned person and give him a title of race other than human, racism will exist, good or bad. I believe this was a point in MLK Jr's speech IIRC.
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It goes the other direction as well. If you think adopting a 'blame whitey' mentality is some form of progress you're living in a comic book. Blaming the son for the sins of the (Great grand) father is not progress no matter which way you look at it.
Switching from trying to raise one group to trying to put down the group near the top is not progress either, the women's rights movement proved that when it changed it's direction and nearly all momentum it had ceased.
The reason we can't "all just get along" isn't because some white people are descended from people who used to own black people, it isn't because some black people are descended from people who were once 'property'. The reason we can't get along is because groups on
all sides hold grudges.