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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, you are going to blame the current school admin and staff for something that happened 50-100 years ago when they weren't even alive and it was a very different time?[/quote]

It depends. What have they done to reckon with the past? What steps have they taken to diversify? How do they teach their students about that time? What do they teach their children about the continuing impacts of the choices of the school's founders and families? Do they talk about racism or is their attitude, that was then and it's over now?[/quote]

Exactly.

This is exactly why I hate Japan and will never go there a they invaded everyone around there. 
And I hate Russia and Germany and Spain and England and Portugal and France and China and America. So brutal and so evil. And the Mideast and how they mistreat their own. 
They all need to pay for their many crimes. I don’t know anyone can visit there or live there. [/quote]

I know you're trolling, but: my grandparents fled Germany in the late 1930s. One of the reasons I have been willing to visit Germany is that they have grappled with their history. It's taught in schools and there are public acknowledgements of horrors that happened in specific places. On the other hand, I'm not willing to visit plantations in the south that glorify the lifestyle without making serious efforts to acknowledge that slavery made the "lifestyle" possible.[/quote]

Great for you. Go to Congo or South Africa instead and donate your time and money. [/quote]

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