So I sent her an E-mail today, honestly I am a little upset with myself that I did. I called her closed minded. I hate devolving to the lower levels, leaves me feeling icky.
in fact here is what I said to her.
I am so sorry that you have been exhausted by our Debate.
I really wish you would LISTEN to me instead of flying off the handle trying to intimate that I am a racist jerk (yes my words you did not say them but you DID imply them.)!
I have tried to explain to you that you totally misinterpreted the original e-mail, I tried to interpret it for you, and you wouldn't "listen" now I finally give up.
I will take a brief moment to point out that approximately 70% of everything you tried to state regarding WHY you were arguing with me was at best misinformation at worst a complete and utter lie.
For example there is not a single "Whites only" holiday out there. there never was. You cite Christmas and Easter.
AGAIN Christmas and Easter are CHRISTIAN Holidays and the very first Christians were ALL "MINORITIES". if there was EVER an all white religion it is either druidism or the Norse gods of Asgard. (and neither of those have holidays that we celebrate in the U.S.)
You cite St Patrick's day (again this could be considered Christian) but in the history of America, Irishmen, which is whom the holiday would be aimed at, at one time were reviled as much as, if not even MORE than, African or Asian Americans. This is Historical fact. Look it up.
But if you really want to keep insisting that Christianity is all white, then I do win because in that case, African's have faced slavery and persecution for about 300 years as far as that goes, But Christians are still persecuted today, they have been fed to Lions for people's amusement, they have been beaten, Stoned, Crucified, Burned to death, Drawn and Quartered (particularly nasty that.) shall I go on?
Therefore if you really want to claim that the RELIGIOUS holidays of Christmas and Easter are ALL whites only then you have to accept that logically that means white men have suffered more and longer than any other race.
Otherwise we come back to my original point. there is no special treatment for White's BUT there is for Everyone else who will avail themselves of it.
I think, however, that you are too closed minded to hear me. so I will try to let you hear from someone else.
The someone else I "sent" her; was Mr. Thomas Sowell. an African American and altogether down to earth kind of guy.
He was talking about the impending appointment of Mrs. Sotomayor to the supreme court. In that article... well why don't you Check it out yourself? (<--- click on the white.)
I highlighted certain parts, so I would like to give you those points...
In Washington, the clearer a statement is, the more certain it is to be followed by a "clarification" when people realize what was said. The clearly racist comments made by Judge Sonia Sotomayor on the Berkeley campus in 2001 have forced the spinmasters to resort to their last-ditch excuse, that it was "taken out of context."
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What could such statements possibly mean -- in any context -- other than the new and fashionable racism of our time, rather than the old-fashioned racism of earlier times? Racism has never done this country any good, and it needs to be fought against, not put under new management for different groups.
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Looked at in the context of Judge Sotomayor's voting to dismiss the appeal of white firefighters who were denied the promotions they had earned by passing an exam, because not enough minorities passed that exam to create "diversity," her words in Berkeley seem to match her actions on the judicial bench in the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals all too well.
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Apparently the famous "empathy" that President Obama says a judge should have does not apply to white males in Judge Sotomayor's court.
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And so on.
See that was exactly my point. there is a new breed of discrimination out there, and it is aimed at whites.
And whatever the past may have. I am trying to focus on NOW.
It could be argued that all races in this world have faced atrocities beyond belief in the past.
But as much as I like History, I do not live there. I choose to live here and now; and living here and now means confronting the injustices of here and now.
The real benefit we can get from looking at the past is to see what mistakes were made so they are not made now, but the argument of my cousin is that we need to live in the past now so we can "make up" for the things done to minorities in America then, and that attitude is what is driving us to the brink of the same problems all over again.
There is nothing we can do now, about then.
So let's start focusing on making it right for ALL people today.
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