Discrimination

[ladysycamore]

Originally posted by wolf
[b]

You've just never been around when I go into my "I'm an American, not a hyphenated one, dammit" speech.

I actually feel strongly about this issue as well.

One of the deals of being an AMERICAN is that our forebears gave up alliegances and ties to their former homes, and embraced this NEW country.

But that's not a strong point in the history of many blacks. Many Africans did not come here willingingly (and no, this is not an argument about who sold whom into slavery...that's not for you Wolf, but in a general context), and many of them did not embrace this country (at least not out of some sense of patriotism...the story of The Amistad speaks of this). Then, there was the issue of not even acknowledging blacks as humans or some such nonsense. Sure, we're acknowledged NOW, but still being disenfranchised in certain areas, so how "American" are we really? I mean in EVERY sense of the word? I say it's mainly by either birthright or being sworn in., but in other areas...hm...not sure if we're there just yet.

I wish my Dad was online...he can state a lot of these types of opinions better than I can.