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In <62lbro$9dg$1@ttis.thomtech.com> send@me.no.spam (Tom Revay) writes:

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>It's clear that slavery, and its legacy, are heinous.  But it seems to
me that  there were disruptions in my family's history that occurred
substantially >later than slavery was ended in the United States. 
Furthermore, the >degredations suffered by my ancestors, that included
having one's family >killed and village burned in war during this
century, were quite comparable in >terms of the pain and havoc they
created among these people to what was >suffered by the
African-Americans who survived slavery.

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            No, they were not.  Slavery and a  denial of personhood
            to an entire group of people over several centuries is
            much more destructive than individual wrongs.  If you
            (today) show a 5 year-old black child a picture of 
            a little white girl and a little black girl, they will
            be able to pick out the "pretty" one.  Does that tell
            you anything?
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>This hardly minimizes what any of these people have gone through.  But
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>.. it's odd that nobody asks me what my feelings are on my family's 
>disruption. Yet I seem to get along, all the same.
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>..................Tom

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            Tom, your heritage and mine have little in common
        with the kind of denial slavery, over several generations
            can bring.  I am not even qualified to try to imagine
            it.....I'm white.  My  auburn hair and blue eyes
            give me entrance anywhere.  No one would arrest me for
            shoplifting ....or ask for my ID if I weren't in my home
            girl neighborhood at the wrong hour.  I might suggest
            that race/gender free hiring is the most appropriate
            answer to racism.

                Lefty