[quote=Coronita]I don’t need you apologists to make other white people apologize for some things that some other white people might have done in the past.
All I need you to do is to not screw around and make things unequal for others moving forward as a concession to appease some African Americans that were wronged.[/quote]
Totally agree.
Absolutely hate that there was slavery in the past, but that was generations ago. Many American Indians in my family tree and my wife’s family tree, but we aren’t asking for our land back, or compensation for the severe mistreatment of our ancestors. Hell, my wifes G-G-G-G-x-grandfather was full-blooded Cherokee and fought on the Union side of the civil war. He injured his leg to the bone by hauling a cannon around the midwest during the civil war…supporting the country that had taken his people’s land! The cannon was hitched to his horse and the tongue of the cannon wore his leg to the bone. He walked on crutches for the next decade then died from a leg infection. He applied year after year for injury benefits due him and they did not arrive until 10 years after he died, when his wife was on her deathbed. Makes me very angry.
But I’m not asking for any money.
Also what isn’t coming out in the news: It was a black Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an unarmed white woman in an alley in 2017. How many stores burned when that happened?
And on top of that, the current Chief of Police in Minneapolis is black. Do you think he’d let racism run rampant in his department?
If anything, perhaps the Minneapolis PD has a tough guy problem as scaredy has been eluding to, not racism. I think that overall PDs are good, but there certainly can be a bad organization or two out there. Evidence is pointing in that direction in Minneapolis.
