It's an amazing disconnect. I mean a person would really, really, really have to completely and totally have shit for brains to not understand why African Americans find the confederate flag offensive.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams071200.asp
Excerpt from an editorial by Walter E. Williams:
Though it's not politically correct to say, today's blacks benefited immensely from the horrors suffered by our ancestors. You say: "What do you mean, Williams? Would you run that by us?" Most black Americans are in the solid middle class. In fact, if we totaled the income black Americans earned each year, and thought of ourselves as a separate nation, we'd be the 14th or 15th richest nation. Even the 34 percent of blacks considered to be poor are fairly well off by world standards. Had there not been slavery, and today's blacks were born in Africa instead of the United States, we'd be living in the same poverty that today's Africans live in and under the same brutal regimes.
If reparations were to be made, then what? Would reparations payments accomplish what the 6 trillion dollars spent since 1965 on the War on Poverty didn't? Let's face the fact that there's not one thing anyone can do to change the past. There's a lot we can do about the future. Dwelling on the past comes at the expense of preparing for the future.
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Now this article was about reparations, but the last sentence is very poignant. Williams would ask you, "offended at what, exactly?" Because of slavery, most blacks today, find themselves living middle class American lifestyles, whereas, without slavery, they would likely be living in a grass hut in Africa, waiting for their daily bowl of oatmeal. It is only because slavery existed, that blacks (by and large) are in America to begin with. So you see, this is all a matter of perception. If one chooses to be offended, that is a choice they made, probably out of ignorance. The choice can also be made, to not be offended, but be thankful. To find the positive rather than focusing on the negative. Dwelling on the past comes at the expense of preparing for the future.
