Re: Arkansas GOPer: Slavery was a blessing in disguise for blacks

[justfollowingtheelections]

I actually had a discussion once with a Republican who had similar beliefs.  Basically, what he believed was that blacks shouldn't complain about slavery because their better off in America than in Africa and he used the fact that Africans migrate to America all the time in search of a better life. 
My counterargument was that the slaves didn't come to America because they wanted to, which he accepted.

[justfollowingtheelections]

...it certainly doesn't reflect well on them, just as the Democratic Party's long history of racism doesn't reflect well on them, either.

Oldies, all white americans have a long history of racism - we live in a racist country built on genocide.  Every aspect of our culture, our identity, and all of our material possessions, land, and 'achievements' are blood-soaked and utterly spoiled.

Stop with the flaming.  I'm white and I'm not racist, and I don't think most white Americans are racist now.  If America is a racist country, then why did we fight a civil war to end the oppressive treatment of a race (even if it was traded for another form of oppression)?  Republicans, both black and white, consistently fought to advance civil rights, and Democrats consistently fought against it.  And where is this genocide that America is supposedly built on?  Your statement is one of the most vile ant-American diatribes that I have ever seen.

Are you serious?  The murder of Native Americans and the enslavement of Africans do not qualify as genocide to you?

[justfollowingtheelections]

Yes, it's well understood to be the country's original sin, even if not always put in quite such negative terms.

Yeah, one would have to look high and low to find a meaningful population of Americans who don't believe Natives were royally cheated and mistreated by European and (later) American settlers. This isn't 1956 anymore. Even the occassional choad who might argue how slavery was ultimately "good" for Africans likely wouldn't stretch that analogy to Native Americans.

Oh yes they would.

[justfollowingtheelections]

Whether or not it is acknowledged that it happened 300 years ago really isn't the point.

My point is that everyone ignores the current situation of native Americans. Sure, it's not a huge segment of the population, but it is a particularly important one morally.

Considering that most of the so-called "Hispanics" are Native Americans or mestizos (part Native-Americans), I would say that they're a much bigger part of the population most are willing to admit they are.