Originally posted by Patrick:
[quote]Originally posted by DonMichaelCorleone:
[b] [quote]I don't keep 'trying to bring it up.' You asked my opinion and I gave it, willingly. -Pat
No one asked you to start a thread entitled : "Racism- still alive"
[/quote]..and no one asked you to give your opinion if you were offended (which it seems you are) by the subject. I didn't know I needed to ask permission, since I didn't the past 38 times.
And I'd like you to reply to the other part of my post, since I was replying to your comment.
Whose fault is it? I'll use a recent example. People here and in the media are talking about how Mrs. Rice was in the segregated south. I have never heard her talk about this. Why is it ok for them to defend her with that, but it's wrong for blacks to bring up the negative side of slavery and segregation, or the ones who didn't succeed like Mrs. Rice?
[/b][/quote]but you said "you weren't bringing it up" but You were by starting the thread in the first place
I didn't respond to that because I've never said it. I can't speak for WHY other people would say things.
There is no need to bring ANY OF IT UP. Slavery has not been around in this country for 200 years, no one alive today has lived through it so IT'S NOT AN EXCUSE FOR THEM. The 50/60 year old black men who lived through segregation can use that, not the 20 year olds.
