Originally posted by juddylovespizza
That cartoon is pathetic. White people setup your state, how can you disown a race like that. Whites made how today is, blacks contributed nothing to it.
I don't care what the accomplishments of white men were, the end doesn't justify the means in this case. Is it right to forget about all the suffering white men caused just because those white men were the same ones who formed our government? We enslaved Native Americans, forced them out of their homes, led them halfway across the country and told them they could have a few chunks of land, and then apologized by giving them casinos? White men fooled the Aztecs into thinking white men were Gods, stole from them, extorted them, and then killed them. We forcibly pulled Africans from their homes, transported them in terrible conditions, sold them, beat them, disgraced them, and then, after all that, we accepted them in our society, as long as they weren't part of "our" society. We forced them to live in our land and then treated them like shit for years. We've grown to treat them as equals in most parts of America, but there will never be full acceptance, especially in rural areas.
We've treated every other race that we've encountered like shit because white men, history has shown, tend to be pompous assholes. We have advanced our civilization, but in the process wiped out some civilizations and set a few on the brink of extinction. Saying we were in the right because of what we have today is like saying that it's fine to kill innocent men as long as you profit from it.
I want to make it clear that I'm not saying that all white men (I am one of them) are bad people, but it can't be denied that our past actions were heinous and cruel.