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I was going through Newspaper Archive through the 1950s. There were a few employment ads specifying candidates must be white. I know exactly who one of those business owners was. He is 102 years old. Would it be wrong of me to call a 102 year old man, just to ask him, "Why were you a racist piece of garbage in the 50s?" And I would call again and again until he gave me an answer. Would it be wrong?
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Honestly, yes. Because they have probably reached the stage of forgiving themselves, and they probably have grown to stop being racist. We've came a long way from the 1950s. So, just accept the fact that 90% of people aren't racist, and I'm sure a great amount of that percentage are older people from the 50s. Yes, that time was horrible, filled with horrible people. Doesn't mean they are now. And they wouldn't be 102, they would be about 70.
ReplyHow would he be only about seventy now? They would have been at least twenty years old back in the fifties to be working in business.
Replymost of the things that happened that time were the result of the social construct and way of view and living by that time.
Also it was common to be working by that age or even younger.
ReplyThe fifties could be as much as seventy to sixty years ago (if late fifties), so how would they be only seventy now, if they were an adult in business during the 1950s?
ReplyIt's about other people forgiving them or not, not their own.
ReplyOf course it wouldn't be wrong. I was going to put a brick through the window of a Nazi back in the 1980s.
ReplyAs far as I know, you weren't slaved in recent times nor mistreated for being someone of color. You had access to education, proper living and didn't have to be tiptoeing around in egg shells for other people acceptance. You're now able to live a great life in the upmost conditions regardless of your gender and color...
As for forgiveness, the ones that did that are in fact guilty of what they've done to black people; most of them fell on the peer pressure statutes since, they didn't have the tools nor the guts to fight for what was right. The ones that should be asking for forgiveness from those people, must be the ones that suffered because of that; people that actually struggled because such treatment fell upon them and affected them more compared to others... It's not our right to harass or insult people since they haven't done anything to us to begin with.
We're able to educate people about history in order to not repeat it, but thanks to society nowadays we're going straight into segregation.
The black community that gave their life to be accepted among white people because they were too human beings with the same rights and duties are now spiriling on their graves.
ReplyYES Random person. You are exactly right. See yall need to listen to this person.
Replysomeone who hasn't suffered any kind of racism treatment in recent times, calling what would probably be a relative of that man or even someone else's person living/working there, who are probably innocent of such claims, to ask them that? I found it baffling how your thought's train went on that road in the first place.
I'll sound like an old geezer with this statement but, you clearly got so much free time at hand, try to invest it in something useful and meaningful for yourself and society instead of feeding ghostly problems
ReplyYes it would be wrong.
Everyone is racist, even black people. Read about what black people did to their own race in Rwanda and in Dominican Republic.
Also, the U.S. prison system proves it; everyone groups by race, even black people.
The important thing is that oppressive racism such as slavery and jim crow laws are a thing of the past. No black people born after 1970 have experienced legally sanctioned racism.
Good people of all colors fought to eradicate legally sanctioned racism in the U.S.
And also, if you're going to call a 102 year old white man because he was on the wrong side of history and he participated in legally sanctioned, oppressive racism, then you might as well call someone in Rwanda and Dominican Republic.
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