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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Think of your family -- your children and grandchildren, and the sacrifices your parents and grandparents made to get you where you are.  What some would call "privilege" (such a silly term) is most often the result of previous generations of a family thinking about future generations of the family.  I spend  over $70k per year on private schools for my two children, max out my investments, but drive an old Toyota.  I'd prefer to leave more for my children and grandchildren (and to teach them to do the same, as my father taught me) than to impress you with a Jaguar or Rolex.  [/quote]

Well let me see. My parents did make a good life for me but there was/is no wealth to pass on because their parents who worked hard and did their best did not inherit any wealth because their parents were sharecroppers who didn't inherit any wealth because their parents were slaves and their parents were slaves and their parents were slaves....

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So your great-great grandparents were slaves? [/quote]

Do you not realize how recent slavery was?  A person born into slavery in 1850 could easily have a child born in 1880, a grandchild born in 1910, a great-grandchild born in 1940, and a great-great grandchild born in 1970.  There are plenty of people alive today in their 70s and 80s (both black and white) who grew up with grandparents who remember slavery.

(I bet you also think that segregation and the Jim Crow era were long enough ago that of course it doesn't affect anyone's lives anymore, right?  Despite the fact that anyone over 60 grew up in that era and most of the rest of us were raised by someone who was?)[/quote]

AA people need to snap out of this victim mentality.  Every immigrant that comes in this country starts off with less than the AAs.  It does not matter if they are educated, not educated, immigrants, refugees, people with advance degrees or uneducated, people who can speak the language or not. Every. Single. One will make sure that their kids will end up assimilated and affluent in this nation. They will overcome a lot more TODAY then AA have to overcome TODAY.

Cannot keep living in the past. Take the opportunities that AAs before you have fought for and made available to you and build upon that. [/quote]

This sounds ok as long as you agree that white men also need to stop with the victim mentality. Appreciate the opportunities you have, the advantages that past oppression still buy you and do the best you can. Women aren't going back the kitchen and black people aren't going back to the fields. [/quote]

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