Abraham Lincoln statues

[Gene C]

(06-02-2021 09:23 AM)Rob Wick Wrote:  I think it's rich that two white men feel comfortable saying that a woman of color is (in Gene's viewpoint) a)acting irresponsibly and (in David's viewpoint) b) (and more patently offensive) is a liar. Both reactions go far toward ratifying the central claim of the project, i.e., that white America will never understand how African-Americans see the history of this country.

Best
Rob

Nikole Hannah Jones was born in Waterloo, Iowa. Her mother is white.
(According to Wikipedia)

My grandfather on my mothers side was born in South Africa and of Irish parents.
I guess that makes me an Irish African American?
There is Cherokee ancestry on my fathers side. So I guess that makes me Irish African Native American.
Oh, I was also born in France. None of this really matters. So your first comment doesn't make much sense to me. Have you got something against Eleanor Roosevelt?
Lincoln mad the comment that he was not so interested in where he came from, but where he was going.

It's sad that many people from Africa were sold into slavery, but who sold them?
And I believe that most of the African Americans are better off today than most of the African's still in Africa. I don't see in the news all the people lining up at the border to leave this country. So let's get off our high horse and focus on what is so much better in our country that people are spending thousands of dollars and risking their lives and the lives of their children, to come here. Let's look at the history of Africa and teach African Americans the true history of their homeland.

Rob, you wrote "that white America will never understand how African-Americans see the history of this country."
Maybe African Americans don't understand the history of their ancestral country.
This country is not perfect, we have room to improve. That's not done by being divisive, but through unity. Not by being negative, but by looking at the positive side of things. Not complaining, but looking for ways to personally become involved on making things better. In perspective, maybe we are not so terrible here after all.

If some one finds my comments offensive, that is not my intent, please let me know and I will delete them.
I disagree with Rob, but I do not want to be offensive.