[quote]Lorisco wrote:
FightinIrish26 wrote:
Lorisco wrote:
I just have one question for all “African-Americans” on this forum; what the hell does “African-American” mean? “_-American" used to mean that the person was born in another country and then came to the US. Now we have all these blacks, who have never even been to Africa, stating that they are African-American. Why? What the hell is wrong with just being American? Should every other race go back to their country of racial origin and have a hyphenated name as well? So let’s all be "-American” instead of just Americans because evidentially being American is just not good enough anymore.
Let’s stop the division people. If you are American, then be proud of it and be just American!
You should have called this thread “Fixing the Race thing”. I’m not even going to go into the fact that they were brought here against their will, were forced into slavery for four hundred years, and subjected to massive amounts of racism for the remaining 150 after they were “freed”. That’s a real American dream, right?
Go back to high school, and take your attempts at logic with you. Never return!
Sorry sport, but no one living today was brought to the US against their will or any of those thing that happened hundreds of years ago. But regardless, that still doesn’t answer the question of the name thing.
Your political correctness sickens me. Sorry, but PC is not logic, it is just a weak ass, go along with the crowd, I’m afraid to think for my self, knee jerk response. Come back when you want to actually use those few brain cells you have.
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Don’t talk to me about logic. To say that you can subjegate a race for 400 years and have them come out like nothing happened is alot more illogical. But then of course, thinking like that is just “PC”.
Its not fucking political correctness. Have you read any history books? Of course, no one alive now was brought here on a slave ship. No shit. But do you have any idea what that does to a race? Look at Ireland. They still suffer the effects of a thousand years of English oppression. This oppression, the lack of self worth and degradation they suffered is the reason that they gravitated towards the things they did, namely (and infamously) booze and violence. But then I guess that is “PC” to, and that country was just a waste of space until the computer boom in the 90s.
Just because blacks were “freed” in 1865, does not mean that they were free. What does it mean to you? I can probably trace my identity back to Ireland and Italy, and back even farther. Blacks don’t have that. They have no last name. They have no “heritage” (meaning your descendants leading directly back to another country) to be proud of, as they were taken. What does that do to people? To a race? When you are brought here by slave ships. “Freed”, only to suffer at the hands of a notoriously racist south, the KKK, Jim Crow laws, and a Democratic, anti-progressive south until the big paradigm shift of the 60s?
Sure there wasn’t slavery. But hey asshole, when did the Civil Rights movement happen? “Hundreds upon hundreds of years” ago? There are people that remember that.
“Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 on August 6. The 1965 Act suspended poll taxes, literacy tests and other voter tests and authorized federal supervision of voter registration in states and individual voting districts where such tests were being used. African-Americans who had been barred from registering to vote finally had an alternative to the courts. If voting discrimination occurred, the 1965 Act authorized the Attorney General of the United States to send federal examiners to replace local registrars. Johnson reportedly stated to associates that signing the bill had lost the South for the Democratic Party for the foreseeable future.”
In a fucking democracy, it took blacks ten fucking years to be assured the right to vote. Depending on how old you are, you might remember this, or your father. What does that say about our democracy?
I don’t think you have any idea what it is to have your great-grandfather be a slave, your grandfather fearing the KKK, and your father not being allowed to vote. If I was black, I would be mighty pissed off. Not to mention the fact that the educational system has failed generations of blacks and other minorities. No sense of identity, a history of bloody and vicious oppression, and lack of general education. But then this is all “PC”, so maybe you shouldn’t even read it. Its just liberal bullshit and propaganda.
Screw your name thing. Your sense of history is pathetic, and my few brain cells are better than your two, one of which apparently has the other in a headlock.