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I'm still confused why Mac took a clip that I posted that has NO racial overtones or undertones and introduced a racial component.


Mac is very eloquent, and I'm sure he will make his own reply.. but I think its hard for the average white person to imagine the world that Mac and his peers grew up in.

A person who has been bit by a dog every day of his life spends more time thinking about dogbite that the person who has never been bit.

What gets left out of the story, though, is the fact that it ain't that world anymore. Its still not perfectly just, but then it ain't perfectly just for ANYBODY of ANY race creed or mindset.

The practice of invoking past travesty to improve the future is a bit like a wife who spends her whole marriage beating up her husband because of something he did wrong 30 years ago. It may humble him... but it certainly WON'T improve the quality of their relationship.

In another thread somebody quoted a line from a James Taylor song (Belfast to Boston, I believe)

"Who will mend this ancient hatred? will the killing to an end? Who will swallow long injustice? take the devil for a countryman?"

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ey71h8ep047758h/AAC12jNM0Hz9Q8zsh5iDeqNHa?dl=0