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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your forefathers carved the greatest nation the world has ever seen out of a wild continent and you are afraid of children’s books from a different era.

You are weak.  You betray or patrimony.[/quote]

It isn't about being "afraid" - it is about evolving as a species and understanding common respect for our fellow man.

300 years ago, people were stolen from their lands and brought to this country to work under a whip or gun. Part of the justiification of that action was the propaganda that people of color were born inferior to those with white skin. Africa was a wild, untamed continent full of sub-human species. That people who practiced other religions (Islam/Hindu etc) were inferior to those who practiced Christianity. The illustrative depictions of people of color were literally those of monkeys or something akin to the Chinaman here.

If you don't understand why the depiction of people of color in these books isn't a follow on from that, and if you don't understand how it is scientifically and socially wrong to have created those depictions, to have propagated those depictions, and to have conducted a centuries long psyops campaign around it that continues with "Welfare Queens" and "diseased immigrants" then I don't know what to tell you. Humans are supposed to be rational and learn and evolve, but it is clear that there are a large number of Americans who simply refuse or are too thick to get it.[/quote]

I don’t apologize for being of European descent.  I don’t apologize for being Christian.  I am glad the faith was spread to the new world.

Slavery was the buggiest single mistake in the history of the republic.  [/quote]

No one is asking you to apologize for practicing Christianity or any other religion. However, it is a fact that Christianity led to the idea of white people as a superior race and it was directly used as a justification for slavery. When one "spreads the faith," it by definition means coercing, by logic or force, others to practice the religion. And, when when you see where the Evangelicals are now, using Christianity to justify wholly un-Jesus practices, then is exposes some serious flaws in the current situation as it relates to the religion. [/quote]

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