Get out that ol' bucket of whitewash paint.

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

"Better than ancestors' could not be a more irrelevant standard. 'As good as the people on TV' is more what it is.

What particular reason, other than the visual aspect you see when you look, makes you think she has or hasn't forgiven anyone?

It seems to me that we have a standard of living that we take for granted.

I'm grateful to have had indoor plumbing and electricity. My dad didn't have those when he was young. We live better than Kings of the old days. It's human progress.

Black lives matter to me, just as much as as any other ethnic group (or race). This country is a melting pot. We need to stew together without hatred or hostility and try to move forward in a positive manner.

I wasn't educated to oppress black folks. I guess I do have a certain amount of "white privilege" just because I live a predominately white area. When I enter a black neighborhood or town, that privilege no longer exists. Or so it seems to me. It comes down to what I call "occupational force".

The USA is ours, because our 'forefathers' took it away from somebody else.

I guess we're here to stay, because we'll all get blown up if someone tries to take it from us. It like were all hostages to the powers that be.

[RickeyM]

Better in some ways, worse in others. Nowadays there are way too many spoiling for a civil war to restore an imagined glory and put them not like them "back in their place".

[BigElCat]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

Better in some ways, worse in others. Nowadays there are way too many spoiling for a civil war to restore an imagined glory and put them not like them "back in their place".

Well said, and I agree.

The whole time I've been corresponding with you on the net, I held the assumption that you are a man. Don Quixote (if that's his real name, which somehow I doubt), just referred to you as "she".

I apologize for my sexist assumption, based mainly on your carpentry work. And I have a confession. My real name isn't BigElCat.

[Mark B]

For millennia mankind has been conquering and/or slaughtering those from rival tribes or nations. This has been a virtually universally accepted and honored practice until very recently.

This paradigm is no longer acceptable to most nations.

The transition is not going to be easy, and addressing grievances will be one of the most contentious subjects.

[Oerets]

Is it not a fact one of the oldest conflicts between human societies is due to the ancient now losses of their lands? That a group claims ownership and displaces an other who also claims the land.

There was never an acceptance and honored practice, rather one of the victor forcing their will until a time they are no longer able to. Then the old issue arises still as strong....

Next to religion old war wounds are the leading causes of loss of human life.

If we as a collective are to advance forward on this planet the cycle needs to stop.

[RickeyM]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

Well said, and I agree.

The whole time I've been corresponding with you on the net, I held the assumption that you are a man. Don Quixote (if that's his real name, which somehow I doubt), just referred to you as "she".

I apologize for my sexist assumption, based mainly on your carpentry work. And I have a confession. My real name isn't BigElCat.

B.E.C. I thought the "she" D was referring to was the lady astronaut in the pic Anywho yep, I'm a guy. Been one for 64 years now Assume away

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by BigElCat

Don Quixote (if that's his real name, which somehow I doubt), just referred to you as "she".

Oops. Mixup was mine. I thought you were 'talking' to the female astronaut pictured in your post above.

[BigElCat]

I'm a bonehead.

Thank you guys for talking some sense into me. I'm a 'crazy Christian' and I can't quite transcend certain 'race oriented ideation' that I have. It stems from the Rothschild world economy, on down to everything we have as US Citizens.

[RickeyM]

A white teacher taught white students about white privilege. It cost him his job.

His firing comes amid a tsunami of conservative outrage about critical race theory, an academic framework for examining systemic racism in the United States that educators contend is rarely taught in public schools.

Hawn said he’d never heard of critical race theory until he was accused of teaching it.

Of course he had to go

[Oerets]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

A white teacher taught white students about white privilege. It cost him his job.



Of course he had to go

For some reason I just was reminded, one of my brothers talking about being in Japan in the eighties. Said the girl he was seeing over there asked him why the U.S. started the war with them?

So it seems this country is not the only one having difficulties with the telling of the past.