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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
you know, i'm not a communist, but latin american plantation owners don't exactly get my sympathy for their supposed travails. cuba before castro wasn't exactly a worker's paradise. cuba was a relatively rich country with a lot of poor people, and agricultural laborers were particularly miserable. to compare the loss of feudal power to enslavement is just plain ignorant and ridiculous. and if i may freely offend, for your stupid statement about 'native americans' getting "anything they ask for" as you put it, your feudal landlord great-grandparents probably had it coming. off with their fucking heads.
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well, so much for fact-checking...and so much for keeping it civil. I would like to call you something, but your reply speaks for itself...you just
assumed a lot about me...perhaps i generalized a bit, i apologize...'loss of feudal power' is relevant how?...not in my case...i have no cuban nor southern American blood in me...my great-grandparents were somewhat wealthy, and had a vacation-type home in cuba, and had to escape for their lives from a tyrant...they lost everything...lost the freedom to live in a land they love, and were pushed out and had their whole lives' worth taken from them [they escaped, if they had stayed, they most likely would have been slaves or executed (as you so elegantly put it]
...how is that not similar to slavery? loss of freedom, thats what it boils down to for people today, right? ( my ancestors were not forced to submissive work, and some black people's were, how the hell does that affect us now?) I see the difference, but the similarity is obvious...
The point is: apologizing for breaking your great great grandfather's back is kinda moot? is it not? I dont think its changing anyone's opinions today...There is something much larger that needs to happen...the loss of ignorance, maybe? I dont know if that can be taught in a history lesson, people are not very smart...Forgiving and Forgetting. Bingo. Right there. Perhaps these apologies are a good thing after all. But if the govt. is doing its part, then African Americans must also do theirs...What comes after an apology? Forgiveness or a more blame?