Some are calling him the Messiah!

If you always blame someone else for your problems and feel that you are suppressed by someone else, you will be!!!

So when the parents of black Americas were told they couldn't use the same bathroom as whites, couldn't attend the same schools as whites, and couldn't get access to the same legal protection as whites, that wasn't oppression, it was just a problem with their attitude?

My father was born in 1938, well before the civil rights movement. Do you even know how blacks were treated back then? Can you admit that *maybe* you lack a little perspective here?

If you move on and stay positive, positive things happen to you.

Asian Americans placed in concentration camps in the US didn't exactly "move on". Even when we were freed, the US paid reparations. The U.S. Congress passed legislation which awarded formal payments of $20,000 each to the surviving internees—60,000 in all. Formal apologies were also issued by the government of Canada to Asian Canadian survivors, who were each repaid the sum of $21,000 Canadian dollars.

So what you're saying is, if the sons and daughters of American slaves stay positive, will they finally get their promised 40 acres and a mule?

There is a time that you stop blaming everyone for your problems (whether they are or aren't caused by someone else) and just move on and become a better person.

Or, maybe, there is a time when you speak out against the immoral majority, the injustice of the government, and try to change the world for the betterment of your people?

I did not vote for Obama,

Big surprise there...

but whether he was black or white had anything to do with my decision.

I guess we'll never know.

you need to realize you can suppress yourself by your own thoughts.

My family being thrown into concentration camps for "looking" Japanese, losing all their property, going from well-to-do market owners to sweat shop factory workers was not an oppression from their thoughts, it was an oppression from state-sponsored racism. These actions by the government destroyed generations of work and require generations of further work to even get back to where we were when my family first came here.

Still, the treatment of my people does not compare to the enslavement of an entire race of people followed by generations of segregation and government endorsed racism.

To just think that a people should simply forgive, forget, move on, and think happy thoughts is pure lunacy and shows a severe detachment from reality.
 
These threads really suck, but I can't really stand whining, so I may as well jump in. Guess I woke up on the wrong side of the bed. Not my parents, grandparents, or great grans, but I was discriminated against because of my race, sex, military service, and lack of handicap. I'm making it. And now I'm going to that more positive happy place.

All of you need to find peace in your life, and guess what ? It doesn't need to come at someone else's expense.
 
I have been in those shoes and I've posted up about it. I know exactly what it's like.

--Wag--

I'm sorry you had to go thru something like that. I'm sure some people know what it's like the rest are just jumping on the racist wagon.

I guess what I was referring to was on an everyday basis. Every where you go.

I can only speak for myself. I experience racism everyday.
 
I was discriminated against because of my race, sex, military service, and lack of handicap.

Really, you've been imprisoned for these reasons? Please elaborate.

Oh wait, you're probably talking about not getting grants, or not getting hired, or maybe not getting a promotion. Yeah, come back here when you've had your house and land seized because of your race.
 
I'm sorry you had to go thru something like that. I'm sure some people know what it's like the rest are just jumping on the racist wagon.

I guess what I was referring to was on an everyday basis. Every where you go.

I can only speak for myself. I experience racism everyday.

We all do Rock. Hurry up with that magic pill. Heck I get treated a lot different just in the clothes I wear. Big difference between jeans and T, and a suit.

Not to demean, I can only imagine what you have had to put up with. Be happy with life brother and everything else won't make two damns. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
 
Really, you've been imprisoned for these reasons? Please elaborate.

Oh wait, you're probably talking about not getting grants, or not getting hired, or maybe not getting a promotion. Yeah, come back here when you've had your house and land seized because of your race.

And that happened to you ?
 
Really, you've been imprisoned for these reasons? Please elaborate.

Oh wait, you're probably talking about not getting grants, or not getting hired, or maybe not getting a promotion. Yeah, come back here when you've had your house and land seized because of your race.

Guess the damage to me and mine directly doesn't make a damn to you :lol:
 
And that happened to you ?

Is it time for a history lesson?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of over 110,000 Americans during World War II.

Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants.

Their "crime": their Japanese ancestry, or even the appearance of being Japanese.

Forty-six years later our government officially apologized for this "grave injustice" and paid reparations. 110,000 were imprisoned, yet only 60,000 received the reparations. More of that "fuzzy math".

My family was among those imprisoned. Our lands were lost, our homes gone, but please, please, tell us of your struggle...
 
Is it time for a history lesson?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of over 110,000 Americans during World War II.

Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants.

Their "crime": their Japanese ancestry, or even the appearance of being Japanese.

Forty-six years later our government officially apologized for this "grave injustice" and paid reparations. 110,000 were imprisoned, yet only 60,000 received the reparations. More of that "fuzzy math".

My family was among those imprisoned. Our lands were lost, our homes gone, but please, please, tell us of your struggle...

Oh, somehow I missed that in my history studies. In other words you weren't imprisoned, and you didn't have anything taken from you.


I want you to hate on me all you can, because you need the release, and I'm sitting here at peace in my life and with myself in general.

And this is exactly why dumbazz threads like this one don't need to be started.

To answer your question, yes I was directly affected by racism.

Oh and :welcome: to the oRg. you will find that it's a great place for everyone.
 
Oh, somehow I missed that in my history studies. In other words you weren't imprisoned, and you didn't have anything taken from you.

:banghead: You need to work on your reading comprehension.

MY family was imprisoned and OUR lands, homes, and business were taken because we LOOKED Japanese! It is a blow that will affect my family for generations.

I don't hate you, I don't even know you. But do not belittle the struggle of a people who were wrongfully oppressed by the government.
 
:banghead: You need to work on your reading comprehension.

MY family was imprisoned and OUR lands, homes, and business were taken because we LOOKED Japanese! It is a blow that will affect my family for generations.

I don't hate you, I don't even know you. But do not belittle the struggle of a people who were wrongfully oppressed by the government.

I'm asian....you're making us look bad...take a nap and roll on with it. :thumbsup:
 
I'm asian....you're making us look bad...take a nap and roll on with it. :thumbsup:

And I care because....?

If we had taken your advice, then 60,000 of us would not have received reparations in 1988. 50,000 more are still waiting, so, no, we won't just take a nap, no matter how "bad" you think you look for it.
 
And I care because....?

If we had taken your advice, then 60,000 of us would not have received reparations in 1988. 50,000 more are still waiting, so, no, we won't just take a nap, no matter how "bad" you think you look for it.

:moon:

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And I care because....?

If we had taken your advice, then 60,000 of us would not have received reparations in 1988. 50,000 more are still waiting, so, no, we won't just take a nap, no matter how "bad" you think you look for it.

okay you have 11 posts. and how many are negative? Your gonna have one long miserable life if you cant forgive what's happened to your family in the PAST. I'm not saying forget just move on.
 
okay you have 11 posts. and how many are negative? Your gonna have one long miserable life if you cant forgive what's happened to your family in the PAST. I'm not saying forget just move on.

I was looking at the same thing....regular old Sjcurrence here :rofl::rofl::rofl: where is that S.O.B. anyway?
 
Is it time for a history lesson?

President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the mass incarceration of over 110,000 Americans during World War II.

Two-thirds were American citizens. Over half were children or infants.

Their "crime": their Japanese ancestry, or even the appearance of being Japanese.

Forty-six years later our government officially apologized for this "grave injustice" and paid reparations. 110,000 were imprisoned, yet only 60,000 received the reparations. More of that "fuzzy math".

My family was among those imprisoned. Our lands were lost, our homes gone, but please, please, tell us of your struggle...


Okay, I'm confused. In one post you incenuate that you are black but then in this thread you are Japanese? :dunno: Wow, you must just hate everyone
 
Really, you've been imprisoned for these reasons? Please elaborate.

Oh wait, you're probably talking about not getting grants, or not getting hired, or maybe not getting a promotion. Yeah, come back here when you've had your house and land seized because of your race.

Ultra give it rest man, you werent even alive then and quit frankly i think most Americans are sick and tired of being told how horriable they are by every butt wipe with an attitude against America...sure, America hasent been the perfect nation but we are in the habit of correcting our faults and moving on...nothing you do is going to change the past and if you think that i owe you something because the Japanese were detained in this country during a fight for our own nations survival you just keep beating the drums of discontent because as far as i am concerned your not owed anything by anybody:moon:
 
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