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Systemic racism in the USA: Are whites "guiltier" if they had slavery in their past?
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<blockquote data-quote="godisagardener" data-source="post: 77037729" data-attributes="member: 444834"><p>I read somewhere once (and these may not be the exact words) that a man who dwells in the past forfeits the present and robs himself of the future. It sounds like you're more preoccupied with where your family and your husband's family came from, who they were or weren't and what they did or didn't do, than you are with the who, what and why of the present. You are not your parents or grandparents.</p><p></p><p>My grandparents were poor southern white folks who were by no means close to being slave-owners; "slave-owning" and "southern" are not synonyms. They were simple sharecroppers who managed to eke out a living farming a few acres of someone else's land. They didn't make me democrat or republican, conservative or progressive, religious or non-religious. There comes a point in our lives when we make those decisions for ourselves, consciously or not.</p><p></p><p>Isaiah 43:18-19 says "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert."</p><p></p><p>The Israelites had a choice. They could dwell in the past, the good and the bad of it; or they could look forward to a new and brighter future. We have the same choice.</p><p></p><p>I don't believe it's "better" to vote one way or the other based on what a person's family was or did in the past. A person should vote with their conscience, for good over evil, for right over wrong, considering today's problems, needs and benefits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="godisagardener, post: 77037729, member: 444834"] I read somewhere once (and these may not be the exact words) that a man who dwells in the past forfeits the present and robs himself of the future. It sounds like you're more preoccupied with where your family and your husband's family came from, who they were or weren't and what they did or didn't do, than you are with the who, what and why of the present. You are not your parents or grandparents. My grandparents were poor southern white folks who were by no means close to being slave-owners; "slave-owning" and "southern" are not synonyms. They were simple sharecroppers who managed to eke out a living farming a few acres of someone else's land. They didn't make me democrat or republican, conservative or progressive, religious or non-religious. There comes a point in our lives when we make those decisions for ourselves, consciously or not. Isaiah 43:18-19 says "Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert." The Israelites had a choice. They could dwell in the past, the good and the bad of it; or they could look forward to a new and brighter future. We have the same choice. I don't believe it's "better" to vote one way or the other based on what a person's family was or did in the past. A person should vote with their conscience, for good over evil, for right over wrong, considering today's problems, needs and benefits. [/QUOTE]
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