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Originally Posted by Terry
I don't know what your'e all worried about. If you go back enough you will find that all britons are all mongrels anyway. Including yanks, kiwis, canadians, aussies, europeans etc. If you go back a lot further we are all descended from black people. So what's the beef? I get a bit annoyed with the dark Americans calling themselves African American. I suppose the white people are European American. Or some will be Spanish American and even more Asian American. The bottom line is that they are all supposed to be Americans. Regardless.  |
I agree ... Perhaps the American blacks are so intent on their black indentity because of the history of slavery in the States and their struggle for basic rights even after emancipation. In Canada immigrant minorites seem happy to call themselves Canadian. Our First Nations people are different. But after all, they were here first. Part of our National Anthem is "Our home and native land." Many First Nations people read that as "Our home on native land."
But things are changing for the blacks .... they are in positions of immense power in the US. Even 20 yrs ago, if someone had predicted a black American woman would be Secretary of State and that a black man would be running for President, that person's predictions would have been greeted with gales of laughter. I hope that before too long the illogic of racism will become so obvious that racism will go gently into that good night.