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Idiot aren't we talking about the past?
Weren't these inventions happen in the past? These kind of asinine responses really piss me off, so excuse me. Especially since I certainly am the last person to cry racism about EVERYTHING. But for someone to say we overcame is so naive it's incredible. Tell that to the Supreme Court who just set back voting rights about 40 years. Tell that to North Carolina and their voter identification laws of yesteryear.
If you do not think that race had anything to with a black man getting credit for anything in 1876, you are living a world of delusion far being anything ever seen before.
P.S. Stop calling yourself a minority! People of color are actually the majority population in the world. Majority/Minority labeling is demeaning to people on both sides of the designation. It is also a not so subtle form of weilding power of groups of people.
If you are a person of color, just freaking say that.[/quote]

By stooping to the level of name-calling you are disrespecting yourself far more than you disrespect me. Let's be respectful adults here as we agree to disagree.

I'm sorry if you don't think that overcoming slavery was a huge victory, PP, or overcoming segregation, institutional racism and so on. I do see those as achievements against corrupt and often vile human nature.

As I stated in my previous post, we should remember, but I refuse to allow myself to become victimized. By perpetuating this "woe is me" mentality you are allowing yourself to be made into a victim, again, and when we do that as a community we so often hold ourselves back instead of progressing. The past is the past. You cannot change it. You should remember, of course, but I think you do a greater good by celebrate the achievements and working towards betterment.
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You are correct -- slavery is over so we're all good. And I guess you are saying that institutional racism is also a thing of the past. Check - that's done -- let's all relax now. By the way -- what "community" are you speaking of --last I looked all black people, cambodian people, east indian people don't all belong to the same community. They may share an ethnicity but i bet the millions of them don't all live in the same community.[/quote]

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