I feel sure his ancestry was taken into consideration by the judicial system.
I know other Black people are doing so.
And that's what sets "race relations" back. Using your ancestry as an excuse for wrongdoing? Complete bullshit.
Can we blame our ancestors for our own shortcomings?
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daniel-p
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quietlyleaving
thanks snowbird
edit: levelling the playing field somewhat imo
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OUTLAW
Yes, they did.
With the full knowledge and active participation of White buyers.
No buyers, no sellers.
Sylvia
Sylvia..Theres always going to be a Buyer for a dirty deed..
No one is innocent..Not the Seller,not the Buyer..
Your going to have to accept the people that sold your family were DirtBags..
The people that bought them were no better..
Dirtbag comes in all colours..In this case they were both Black and White..Your family suffered because of them..
All of them..The Black s and the Whites..
There`s no getting around that..
.............................OUTLAW
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daniel-p
They addapted and over came..Thats a lot to be proud of..
Well, they're not really "overcoming" if they're blaming animal cruelty on the slavery of their ancestors.
There's no nexus between the issues here. I am the first to agree that blacks are disadvantaged due to American history, but I will never concede that a rich NFL player is blameless for brutally maiming and killing helpless animals because he's black.
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palmtree67
"Who puts caramel on top of strawberry-ice creme?!!
It`s a Culinarey Disaster I tell you!"
I agree. This could also be the cause of global warming.....
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minimus
So Afro-Americans should be proud of what they have had to overcome. Outlaw, I guess that's something a whole race can be proud of.
Sylvia, regarding responsiblity, it starts with the persons who did the selling. You don't like the truth? You can't "handle the truth"? (That's my best Jack Nicholson impression!)
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minimus
I like it. They're all "dirtbags".
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undercover
Isn't the NFL player African-American?
Isn't his ancestry African-American?
Then this thread is about African-Americans!
The player is an American who happens to be black. I assume his ancestry is African, but I don't know.
This thread is about people, of any race, color or nationality, who want to blame their ancestor's history for their current misbehaving or faults.
The thread from which this sprang was about Michael Vick, American football player in the NFL. It wasn't about his race, or his ancestry. It was about whether he, the man, the player, deserved a second chance to play the game.
You made it about race and ancestry. Which is something you tend to do on a lot of threads. Why is it that you couldn't just accept the subject of that thread for what it was without interjecting race, slavery or ancestry into it?
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minimus
UC, you set the bait. You know you did.