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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Get with it, people. Diversity in the US only ever means one thing: enough black people or not. No other race need apply. Why are you pretending otherwise? [/quote]

Well, we built this country for free for 400 years.  It's the least they could do.[/quote]

Slavery ended in 1865. 400 years is a massive stretch. And, no, they didn't "build" the country. Slaves were vastly outnumbered by whites and it was white settlers and white colonialists and white immigrants who hacked down most of the forests and dug the canals and worked in the factories and mines and settled the prairies and built the skyscrapers and you name it. You could make a plausible claim that the Irish did more to "build" the country than the slaves, given how severely restricted slaves were in their actions and tied to agricultural plantations in the south with minimal movement and brutal racism in the northern states restricted the ability of blacks to do anything but the most basic labor jobs.

I'm not disclaiming or ignoring the role blacks in American history, but going around claiming they built the country is ignorant and silly. They couldn't have "built" the country when they weren't really allowed to do anything other than pick cotton or hoe the fields or dig a few ditches. But it's the same mindset that also tells you for most blacks, they only view diversity through the prism of blacks, and blacks alone, which makes the concept of diversity both ironic and hypocritical. We see this all the time in the DCUM area. Schools with large Asians and South Asian populations are still not diverse. Interesting isn't it?
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