Should African Americans be given a holiday in order to 'repay' them for slavery and injustices 'they' experienced in the past?
-
No.31% Voted for by Rewrite, Oral Fixation, Energizer Bunny, Weydon, Aphotic Euphony. (6 total)
I heard this on the radio like two years ago. It's ridiculous. This guy said he was Af. Amer. on the radio and said that people that are black should be given a holiday and not have to work all that day because they were enslaved.
Bull, I say...I mean, they wanted to be treated equally, so they are (not counting racism and illegal inequal opportunities). White people don't get a holiday for discovering America. Decendants of the members of Apollo 11 don't get a holiday. I'm willing to bet no one who had slaves on their plantation in Louisianna is alive right now. What's the point of holding a grudge against his great-great grand child, who doesn't even know his name, when you're the great-great grand child of a slave, and you've never been a bought slave?
And it wasn't just 'whites' who took slaves. It was some African tribes who sold other tribes into slavery.
Just saying, that they're equal. Af. Americans get all the holidays as 'whites' do.
-
No31% Voted for by Weydon, Aphotic Euphony, petethemeat, cosmosis, Esfuerzo. (6 total)
What about people of mixed heritage? What about none of my ancestors being in America during the times of slavery? What about people of every race being slaves at some point in some parts of the world?
I understand some degrees of affrimative actions, making sure minorities aren't directly oppressed. I can understand allowing certain exclusive organizations like the NAACP to help lift up a once oppressed people, and things like black history month to recognize those who were once dismissed and persecuted in our nation.
But we should be focusing on seeing each other as human beings and nothing more. Giving different races special days of privaledges will inspire smugness, awkwardness, and further separation. Have pride in your past, sure, but don't uplift inconsequential things like colors into superiority days.
-
Yes.10% Voted for by david13, likewhatitis100.
If it helps to alleviate African-Americans' suffering then by all means why would we want to hold them back? Haven't you ever felt an injustice that others didn't agree with? How can you ever get over that injustice so that you can be at internal peace? Slavery was a fact. Okay, so it is easy for you to say it is over with because you are not black. Put yourself in their shoes. So what: ONE day out of the year? We give several days to U.S. presidents, several days for Jesus and a day for a cloth with few stars and stripes on it. If African-Americans are sincere in that it will help them then America SHOULD give them a holiday. A couple of generations later black kids will forget about the hatred their ancestors felt towards whites. They will look at the holiday like we look at memorial day or labor day-- just another day off.
-
African American ?Voted for by Dwn.
That term to me implies duel citizenship, and one of those citizenships must be to a contenant as to my knowledge there is no country named specificly "Africa" I have never heard of a holiday being established in any country for those of duel citizenship, nor do I think it proper. Further I think anyone declairing such a situation as being a citizen of both this supossed country of Africa, and the USA should be required to produce documentation of such in order to make such a claim.
Adding your reply:
Registration is required because of issues with spam. It is fast and free! This author would LOVE to get a comment from you, please join!
Kazrith
November 20, 2006
Edit | Reply
bob2314
November 20, 2006
Edit | Reply
you gonna eat that wing summerset
an excuse to watch football and drink beer. oh ya and to give thanks for a bountiful harvest that the native Americans had 300 years ago so we could steal the food.November 21, 2006
Edit | Reply
Thanksgiving & "Af. Amer.'s"
I agree 100%... Let it go already. Just because you're black doesn't make you of African descent. No, I'm not trying to "keep them down", nor am I trying to impose any form of oppression whatsoever, but as you said, if people of true African descent want to be treated equally then let them work their ass off to get ahead in life just like everyone else. As for Thanksgiving, the only reason, I believe, it's, and every other holiday like it, vitality has continued to thrive is due to Hallmark and every other company capable of capitalizing on the millions of people partaking in Black Friday and whatnot. In short, it's B.S., get bent, massive corporations and slackers.likewhatitis100
November 21, 2006
Edit | Reply
HOLIDAY MEANT TO DE-RACIAL PREDUJICE, RECIPIENTS OF RACIST PHILOSOPHIES.
I'm still consulting on this subject with African Americans, so as to get the correct facts. This is what I have so far. Is racism gone for good? The answer is no. It is still very much alive although, of course, not as rampant as it was, before. The seeds of racism are passed from generation to generation. So, would you honestly say the present plight of African people has nothing to do with the past? Would you honestly say the racial discrimination they are sometimes subjected to, has nothing to do with slavery era? *What's the point of holding a grudge against his great-great grand child, who doesn't even know his name, when you're the great-great grand child of a slave, and you've never been a bought slave?* You seem to be the one with the grudge. *And it wasn't just 'whites' who took slaves. It was some African tribes who sold other tribes into slavery.* This, statement, gives impression that you are defending whites, and yet, the fact is that no one, who participated in slavery, the worst human rights violation ever, disserves exoneration, whether black, white or Arab. Therefore, no one, who participated is worth to be defended against. They are all guilty. So, since it is a fact that the effects of slavery are still being felt among the African American community, the idea of a holiday was meant to de-racial prejudice, mentally, recipients of racist philosophies by increasing awareness that slavery was the worst human right violation and ,therefore, African Americans should not be racially prejudiced. So, it was meant to reinforce that idea, and absolutely, not the so called repay thing. Because, in any case, the human rights violation the African American ancestors suffered, and consequently the present effects on African American descendants, can not be repaid by a holiday. It can not be repaid by anything so, to say.likewhatitis100
November 21, 2006
Edit | Reply
ITS NOT "TO REPAY"
*Should African Americans be given a holiday in order to 'repay' them for slavery and injustices 'they' experienced in the past?* I really wonder where you got that, that the idea of a holiday is to repay for slavery and injustices experienced in the past. Because the slavery and injustices experienced by African American people is not worth the holiday as a repayment.Nothing can pay the slavery and injustices experienced by African American people.likewhatitis100
November 21, 2006
Edit | Reply
mudgod
November 22, 2006
Edit | Reply
Please register or login to comment! It's totally free