[!--QuoteBegin-Killer+Oct 31 2005, 08:32 PM--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Killer @ Oct 31 2005, 08:32 PM)[/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--QuoteEBegin--]No, No and No!!!! Perun is right and Duke and LC are wrong!!!
By the way, when a whitey does something to anyone is mean, racist and so on. When anybody else does something to a whitey, he took justice on his own hand.
And yes, racism is not compleately a white problem, but they sure fuel it up!
What you've called racism, for example the black people who promote black pride or the native americans that blame stuff on whiteys, its not racism. It is revindication!!!
PS. Iron Duke, are you compleately sure you are Canadian??? [!--emo&
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No, I'm quite certain it's racism. Justice is not letting the formerly-oppressed have revenge. Justice is ensuring that it never happens in the future.
"Revindication" appears in neither the Oxford English Dictionary nor the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The only remotely-related word that makes sense in this context is "revenge".
Furthermore, frankly if you think that any American/Canadian of European descent who is alive today is responsible for slavery/killing indians/whatever, you are dumb - plain and simple. I nor anyone else I know have NEVER, not even once, at all, ever, owned a slave or scalped an indian. Never. My father didn't do it, nor his father, nor his, nor his, etc. Why, then, should it be ok for some people to blame me for something that happened before I was born? Why should I pay for it?
I have no problem with "black people who promote black pride". I think it's fantastic that they are proud to be who they are. Just as long as they don't turn their pride into the hatred of non-blacks, which many rappers do. One can be proud of one's heritage without hating that of others.
I have a huge problem with "native americans that blame stuff on whiteys". That's like saying the current inhabitants of England are to blame for what happened in Scotland under Edward the Longshanks. Get over it. Move on. Stop whining about what some Spaniard did to your great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grandfather.
A few other minor notes:
Vindication is the process by which a guilty person/people clears his/their name. Ergo, it follows that "revindication" would be what happens when a man if accused, clears his name, is accused again, and clears his name once more. I haven't the foggiest what you meant by using it here.
"whitey" is a racist term, and I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't use it on these forums. "White People" is acceptable, but "Caucasian" or "of European Descent" are more Politically correct, in my opinion. The same holds true for the word "gringo"; should you ever feel so inclined to use it here, think twice lest you offend people again. It is the same as using the term "darkie", "Spic", or "Nip".
"Native American" is a term quickly going out of style. It refers to the descendants of the people who lived in the Americas before the first Europeans arrived (notice I did not say "the first inhabitants of the Americas"? - they most certainly were not the FIRST). The major problem with this term is that it creates second-class citizens out of people. I was born in the Americas, my father was, his father, etc, all the way back to 1605. I sure as hell am not a native Scot or Frenchman. I am native to the Americas, ergo I am a native American. There are not "native" people in the sense you use the term, unless you go to the Great Rift Valley in Africa. That's the only real "native" place to anyone, if your reasoning is to be used.
As for calling into question my nationality, I honestly don't understand you there. Canada is a pluralistic society that respects all points of view. Nobody thinks exactly the same way, and we're porud of our differences. There is no defined way a Canadian acts, just like there is no defined way a German, a Peruvian, or an Arab should act. To assume otherwise is to stereotype, and I think even you can agree that that's not a good thing to do.
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