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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]jsteele wrote:
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Jeff: “I’ll leave to the actual black people to share their feelings on this.” 
Also Jeff: *is not black* *proceeds to post paragraph after paragraph about his feelings on this.*

Whitesplaining AND mansplaining all in one! Bravo!

That was in reference to the white poster trying to speak on behalf of black people. Can you please tell me why a white person cannot discuss history? I'm not discussing people's feelings. Anyone, black, white, or otherwise, has the right to feel anyway they want to feel. What I'm discussing is colonial history. Are you telling me that a white male can't talk about such a thing.

Just for the record, I now firmly believe that anyone accusing anyone of "splaining" anything is an idiot. It's a farce when a white person -- probably two white people for that matter -- accuse me of "Whitesplaining". What the hell do you think you are doing?

No one is saying you cannot discuss things like slavery and history. Just that [b]in this case,[/b] when you are white and it was not YOUR race that was kidnapped, raped, shipped across the ocean, etc. that *listening* to the people who were actually affected by this is[b] probably the better approach.[/b] Just sit down and listen. Learn from their thoughts, opinions, and ideas.[/quote]

NP here.  Discussing historical facts should never be an issue of race.  [/quote]well, people like to reinterpret history to suit themselves. Remember the furor when Texas issued history books describing african slaves as "workers from Africa"? This is in the same vein https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/publisher-promises-revisions-after-textbook-refers-to-african-slaves-as-workers.html[/quote]

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