alot of brave  white  and  other nationality s  fought for  blacks  freedoms and were still paying for it?
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It's people like you that make me not want to visit Yahoo answers. You're sick? No I'm sick of people categorizing all black people. I go out and work every single day and don't ask no one to support me and my children. I only ask to be treated with dignity and respect just like everyone else. White people did not lose their lives for 400 years bieng a slave and continue to lose their lives for being who they are and I'm not even counting the lives we lost on the boats getting here and no one fought for us on the boat. I am not dismissing any participation of white people in the fight for rights of black people it is greatly appreciated but the numbers of those who died are mostly black people. If your people and family were killed just because of their race, would it be easy to swallow and forget? You have been a victim yourself and I would never tell you to forget about it and treat it as something small. I don't complain and ask no one for nothing! Racism still exists and it did not happen a long time ago. Rosewood, Segregation, not having the right to vote, lynching, and The Tuskegee Experiment are examples. I am not on welfare and I don't ask for handouts so stop insulting me! For Jason aka J, we read history books while in school everyday, year after year, about white people contributions to this country. It is not just condensed in a month. We are always reminded of it in history class and how black people were percieved and treated in this country. Don't let the actions of some distort your perception of all.
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Freedom in the USA is (in my opinion) a joke.  We go into other countries to give them what we have but i dont think we really have it to begin with.  Blacks still get dicrimminated against. So do gays and people from the middle east.  It took us how long to give women and blacks the rights that they have?  I sit here in Europe (on vaycay) and I see such a huge difference in freedoms.  Its astonishing really.  In my eyes if you are rich you got all the freedom you want... if you fall short your screwed.  I come from a middle class family.  We had to work to get what we wanted, we arent rich.  and i dont feel we got the same freedoms and treatments that money would normally give others.  Just my opinion.
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You deserve what you earn.\n\nThere is no "Freedom Giveaway" by your God (The Government).\n\nIf you sit around and demand freedoms, you will be enslaved by those that you wait on.\n\nIn the US, the welfare system has slaves, Social Security has slaves, Credit Card Companies have slaves ("Get the card YOU deserve!") and hundreds more Programs and Businesses because fat-headed people think freedom is free.\n\nYou have to earn freedom, fight for it, pay for it and, sometimes, die for it.\n\nYou have your freedom now because people before you sacrificed to give it to you.\n\nThe way you're acting, it won't be long before you sell yourselves into slavery.\n\n"Soon the time will come when we have to choose between what is easy and what is right" (from Harry Potter, The Goblet of Fire)\n\nThe time is now.  Choose or someone will choose for you.\n\nThank you for your time.
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I resent you saying that I have the same mind set as my ancestors whom you claim owned slaves.  All white people did not own slaves, in fact, a lot of them were against it and fought for the freedom of the slaves.  I have always been on the slaves side when I have read or seen anything about slavery.  Just because I am white does not mean I think slavery is acceptable.  I think it was deplorable!  However, a lot of other people have been wronged in history too, mainly, the indians whom we stole this very land from.  Are you going to make repairations to the indians for the fact that YOUR ancestors stole THEIR land????!!!!!
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Take it a step further: why are there some white people that can be proud of their heritage (Irish, Scots, Italians), but other white people who can't (English, American)
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To be honest I think most Blacks are looking for pay back, I heard some say innocent whites need to be kill just as innocent black were. Yes blacks need equality but lets be honest giving blacks equality doesn't offset over 300 years of oppression and struggle. On paper all people need equal rights seems fine, but look deeper into this issue, you will find that the black race deserves much more than equal rights. \n\nWhen Blacks were first "bought" (not sold) into slavery they were oppress from the time they were "purchase," not sold to whites. You can't sell nothing if no one is WILLING to buy it. Blacks were oppress from the time they got own until the time Dr. King died in 1968, by whites not Africans. Is giving the black race equal rights make right all the oppression they face?\n\nHow can 400 years of oppression which include segregation be made OK by giving them equality? Will equality fix or bring justice to the Millions America kill unjustified. Will equality fix or bring justice to tens of thousand that were lynch during the early 1900's. What about their lost knowledge of a language, religion, culture and customs? Will Brown was shoot over 1000 times beaten , then burned alive. These things did not happen in ancient times but in my and my parents generation. We were oppress so we couldn't vote this was only the 60's. So the ones who were slaves could not get anything for their misfortune because they had no rights to back then. Equal rights could not repay all that was done against the Black race. So in reality the two groups will never be equal one side had 300+ years of struggle and robbery while the other had/has 300+ years of privilege and benefits and the expense of one group, not just from free labor but from being on the side of the oppressors. That in it's self gave you privilege.\n\nTruth is the people who would have inherited the money their father SHOULD have got are still here. Just as the people and nation who inherited that borrow wealth, is still here, and the wealth is still here. So if Blacks got paid for that wealth they would have left their descendants with something rather than a spirit of poverty. As a result 70% of elderly blacks have no  financial assets. Which is a direct result form segregation design to keep the wealth in the white community and keep blacks from the houses, shools, and inherited wealth they help build for the white community. It's never to late to do what rights, however reparation will divide the country.\n\nBlacks don't need reparations but equality, and as I said equality is not giving blacks equal rights. Truthfully all the things the white race did or has done against the black race most surely can not be repaid with equality, neither can it be repaid with all the wealth this nation has.
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that's a good question. its because the US government are scared to act. it would be call racism. blacks always complain about that there people where tortured and slaves... like they where the only one. Egypt enslaved hundreds of thousands of whites  for hundreds of years. Blacks where enslaved for like 100 years and they still complain.\nSISSYS.\nBlacks always say stuff like well i get put in jail for nothing. then later we find out he did do something wrong.     they need to take responsibility for there own actions\n\nP.S. Blacks choose not to get a bad education. they have all these excuses like they have less of a chance than us. they are just lazy. \nthey have the United Negro College Fund. what do whites have? nothing but smarts. that not our fault... I'm not saying that whites are all smart but you are wright about blacks having more rights. If whites made a United Caucasian Fund, the creators of it would be sued for racism.  ya that sounds real equal... NOT
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Whoever is sponsoring these scholarships have a right to give their money to anyone they want to. White people may not be a minority but they still deserve a decent education and financial help if they need it.
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Perhaps this goes back to the old days of William Wilberforce \nwhen he fought for the freedom of the Scots.Remember seeing the film braveheart,excellent film
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Most Americans today are willing to support any cause pushed by the media because they are unfortunately thoughtless, uneducated sheep who never take the trouble (or don't have the concentration span) to spend five minutes and actually learn about an issue before taking a stance. People, freedom is not itself free. It comes with a price, the price of watchfulness. You must guard your freedom. Protect it. If you do not value your freedom and be prepared to defend it, someone will try to take it from you.\n\nIllegal immigrants will destroy your economy just the way you have described, by sending untaxed money out of your country.\n\nMy uncle was a paratrooper in WW2. He's part of the reason we are not living in a dictatorship now.
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Because they were willing to fight for our country and many went through a lot to defend it.
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Guess it wasn't a good society for non-whites to be in.  If you had a rung high up in the social strata of society you were doing good.  If you didn't too bad you were kept down.  People were probably taxed to death.
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Because they were historically denied white booty so they're compensating now\n\nAlso they're mostly in prison so the few that arent in prison are living it up
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If I knew it was going to be like this, I would not have purchased slaves from the BLACK Africans who were selling their brothers and sisters for profit.  But since I am a conservative Repbulican, and NOT a Democrat "party of the old south slave owners " Look at the history of the Republican Party vs the Democrat Party, it was the southern Dems that WANTED TO KEEP SLAVERY(States rights) and the Republican party was formed to STOP slavery.  Slavery is STILL going ON today, in \nAfrica, and the Arab "states".  So, I agree, why are they all whining and expecting a hand out??  \n\nAnd yes, I would and STILL pick my own cotton!
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It's important because it pays respect to the millions that died fighting for our rights. When our ancestors came over here they was robbed of everything, there language,nationality,religion,culture,idenity, and there way of life to be replaced with that of slaves. Millions were kill just trying to keep this, while millions more died just in slave ships. Just think what it was like being chained up force to walk hundreds of miles to the coast, stripped naked, put on a ship pack with a bunch of sick people, dark, and flowing with all kinds of dieases for three months.  After that they were separated from there families, then sold as slaves. Next they were work from sun up to well after sun down for the slightest mistake 40 lashes. With all of this they where still singing and was joyest people so what better way to pay respect than to remember and celebrate all that they did. Most whites don't understand taking away black history will make their stuggles go in vain.
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I rise with you. Racism and the fact that some people just cannot stand difference make sure many of us still have to continue looking over our shoulders, despite people like you, who have admirably represented your country in no less a way than any of the bravest that have fought with our armed forces. \n\nRemember that platoon of black soldiers who were refused the highest honors this country could bestow on the bravest of the brave? USA is a long way away from being free and equal to all.
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it is the governments way of trying to make things right for what the blacks were put through many years ago. \n i don't think it is discriminiation. i do think though that it is sad that every nationality can have their own organizations, except whites. because if we were to have a group or organization to celebrate the fact that we are white, people would think we were some hate group or something.