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.