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It seems that everyone just loves to hate white people for the things their long-deceased ancestors did. It seems that despite the animosity in other parts of the world, white people are the only ones being berated for any damage they cause. It also seems that despite the fact that the policies and lifestyles of ancestral Caucasians have been put to rest, white people just can’t get a fair shake today.
No, white people aren’t the only people in this world who step on others, and no, they don’t deserve to be held accountable for the actions of people who lived too long ago for those actions to continue having any effect.
What happened back in the 1500s is something that other races probably would’ve initiated if they had the technology to do so. The biggest reason Europeans could start traveling large distances fairly easily was due to the huge amount of resources available to them as well as their emphasis on education and invention. However, this doesn’t mean other races were busy banging rocks together and picking their noses; in fact, white people weren’t even the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 60 B.C., two Native Americans sailed to Holland. It just so happens that white people were interested in attempting to colonize other countries, and they were able to do so because of their resources. If any other race of people had the resources and ingenuity to do what white people did, we would probably hate them like we hate white people now.
A popular myth that goes hand-in-hand with exploring and colonizing foreign lands is that of stealing land from the native peoples. Basically, white people are made out to be the ONLY PEOPLE EVER to take land away from someone else, namely the Native Americans. Anytime movies are made about white people and Indians, the Indians spend an inordinate amount of time bitching about how the horrible white people stole their land from them. Not only does this make colonial Europeans out to be an impossibly industrialized group, but it severely undermines the veracity that defined Native American culture. On top of it all, it’s not true. What killed off the Indians was not white settlers (especially the pussy Pilgrims) but rather the smallpox plague. It is estimated that smallpox killed about 96% of the Native American population that inhabited Massachusetts. By the time the smallpox virus made its way over to the west coast and dissipated, at least 90% of the country’s population was gone. Historians estimate that at the time, the country’s total population was between 20 and 100 million. Given the cunning and incredible strategic plans used by the Native Americans, the only way Europeans could even attempt to settle was by coming over after most of them had died off. So what it basically boiled down to was that when Columbus came over and gave the natives some blankets, he accidentally exposed them to the myriad of germs that went on to kill off 90% of the total population. Then, over the course of the next couple hundred years, Europeans tried settling (and failed miserably) until the Pilgrims showed up in 1620. So let’s talk about those couple hundred years in between Columbus and the Pilgrims.
People were horrible at making a life for themselves. Columbus was out to find gold, but when he couldn’t find enough of it to make his voyage profitable, he began enslaving Native Americans for profit. He returned from America with loads of money and died wealthy, despite what textbooks say. Well, everyone else wanted to get on the gold bandwagon, and that’s basically what they dedicated their time to doing. They didn’t farm, nor did they know how to, and when they ran out of food in the winter, they resorted to cannibalism. Enter Squanto. He taught them to farm and harvest, which is a miracle in itself, because it’s not like the Pilgrims really cared that his people were almost extinct.
Jamestown is credited as the first successful English settlement in the US, but it wasn’t because of sheer willpower and manly strength. They antagonized the natives, yet the natives left them alone. Why? They didn’t know how to farm, and they spent harvest seasons digging holes for gold. They had NO CLUE what they were doing; these folks didn’t have Squanto helping them. Because they were so desperate, they stopped taking native slaves and instead offered themselves up as slaves TO THE NATIVES in exchange for food.
But I’m sure that’s perfectly fine. After all, they’re white and they deserved it. Oh, and they offered themselves up as slaves, making it voluntary and therefore acceptable.
Finally, we have the story of Roanoke, the island whose population mysteriously disappeared, leaving the word “Croatan” carved into a post. Well as it happens, Croatan was the name of a nearby island that was populated with friendly Native Americans. The folks from Roanoke went over there to live with the natives, and soon they began marrying and having children. What this story illustrates is the concept that white settlers weren’t hostile, antagonistic, or otherwise mean and unbearable. They didn’t breeze into town and steal the land from the remaining Indian population. THEY ESTABLISHED FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEM. In fact, colonists began joining the native culture to the extent that it started causing major problems for the colonies’ leaders. You know how illegal aliens basically risk their lives to come to the States? Well, the settlers were risking their lives to LEAVE THEIR OWN CULTURE AND JOIN THE NATIVE ONE. Ben Franklin wrote that Europeans tried stopping the outflow to the extent that Hernando De Soto was posting guards to keep the settlers in the colonies. Think about that, people.
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When we hear about World War II, we immediately think about the Nazis and how they slaughtered millions of innocent Jews. We’ll never forget about how America completely emasculated Japan at Pearl Harbor. But we rarely, if ever, hear about what Japan did to Korea. To put it very innocently, Korea was under Japanese rule, and they took Korean slaves. Today, the Koreans still harbor very deeply-seated hatred toward Japan. My best friend’s mother is from Korea, and my best friend’s boyfriend is Japanese. Her mom hates him and is inhospitable to him SIMPLY BECAUSE HE’S JAPANESE. Yet we never really hear about that incident, nor do we even seem to consider Koreans’ discrimination against the Japanese to be racist. We never consider that Native Americans would fight each other and kill each other off just as anyone else would. It’s inconceivable that there were peaceful tribes and hostile tribes, and that these hostile tribes would terrorize the populace. No one seems to know anything about Minami-Tori-Shima , a tiny island of extreme strategic importance, or that the Asians are having a bloodbath over it.
Nope. All we ever seem to hear about is how the white people are stealing from others, how the white people are raping others, how the white people are otherwise making life hell for everyone else. All the while, some faggot in Hollywood can make and hang by noose an effigy of Sarah Palin and it’s perfectly acceptable, because it’s only wrong if a “majority” hates on a “minority.” But, if someone does the same basic thing to the Almighty Obama, they’re dealt with immediately. Racism is racism, hate is hate, and bigotry is bigotry. There isn’t a separate word for all the precious “minorities,” but if anyone is truly a minority, it’s white people. Racism is all the same, and it’s all bad. The color of your skin doesn’t make you any better or worse than anyone else. Everyone fights, everyone destroys, and everyone waves their proverbial dick around to show everyone else who’s boss. It’s not a phenomenon that is shared by only one or two groups of people; it is shared by the entire human race. So stop demonizing white people, because as it currently stands, most everyone else acts worse than they do.
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No, white people aren’t the only people in this world who step on others, and no, they don’t deserve to be held accountable for the actions of people who lived too long ago for those actions to continue having any effect.
What happened back in the 1500s is something that other races probably would’ve initiated if they had the technology to do so. The biggest reason Europeans could start traveling large distances fairly easily was due to the huge amount of resources available to them as well as their emphasis on education and invention. However, this doesn’t mean other races were busy banging rocks together and picking their noses; in fact, white people weren’t even the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean. In the year 60 B.C., two Native Americans sailed to Holland. It just so happens that white people were interested in attempting to colonize other countries, and they were able to do so because of their resources. If any other race of people had the resources and ingenuity to do what white people did, we would probably hate them like we hate white people now.
A popular myth that goes hand-in-hand with exploring and colonizing foreign lands is that of stealing land from the native peoples. Basically, white people are made out to be the ONLY PEOPLE EVER to take land away from someone else, namely the Native Americans. Anytime movies are made about white people and Indians, the Indians spend an inordinate amount of time bitching about how the horrible white people stole their land from them. Not only does this make colonial Europeans out to be an impossibly industrialized group, but it severely undermines the veracity that defined Native American culture. On top of it all, it’s not true. What killed off the Indians was not white settlers (especially the pussy Pilgrims) but rather the smallpox plague. It is estimated that smallpox killed about 96% of the Native American population that inhabited Massachusetts. By the time the smallpox virus made its way over to the west coast and dissipated, at least 90% of the country’s population was gone. Historians estimate that at the time, the country’s total population was between 20 and 100 million. Given the cunning and incredible strategic plans used by the Native Americans, the only way Europeans could even attempt to settle was by coming over after most of them had died off. So what it basically boiled down to was that when Columbus came over and gave the natives some blankets, he accidentally exposed them to the myriad of germs that went on to kill off 90% of the total population. Then, over the course of the next couple hundred years, Europeans tried settling (and failed miserably) until the Pilgrims showed up in 1620. So let’s talk about those couple hundred years in between Columbus and the Pilgrims.
People were horrible at making a life for themselves. Columbus was out to find gold, but when he couldn’t find enough of it to make his voyage profitable, he began enslaving Native Americans for profit. He returned from America with loads of money and died wealthy, despite what textbooks say. Well, everyone else wanted to get on the gold bandwagon, and that’s basically what they dedicated their time to doing. They didn’t farm, nor did they know how to, and when they ran out of food in the winter, they resorted to cannibalism. Enter Squanto. He taught them to farm and harvest, which is a miracle in itself, because it’s not like the Pilgrims really cared that his people were almost extinct.
Jamestown is credited as the first successful English settlement in the US, but it wasn’t because of sheer willpower and manly strength. They antagonized the natives, yet the natives left them alone. Why? They didn’t know how to farm, and they spent harvest seasons digging holes for gold. They had NO CLUE what they were doing; these folks didn’t have Squanto helping them. Because they were so desperate, they stopped taking native slaves and instead offered themselves up as slaves TO THE NATIVES in exchange for food.
But I’m sure that’s perfectly fine. After all, they’re white and they deserved it. Oh, and they offered themselves up as slaves, making it voluntary and therefore acceptable.
Finally, we have the story of Roanoke, the island whose population mysteriously disappeared, leaving the word “Croatan” carved into a post. Well as it happens, Croatan was the name of a nearby island that was populated with friendly Native Americans. The folks from Roanoke went over there to live with the natives, and soon they began marrying and having children. What this story illustrates is the concept that white settlers weren’t hostile, antagonistic, or otherwise mean and unbearable. They didn’t breeze into town and steal the land from the remaining Indian population. THEY ESTABLISHED FRIENDLY RELATIONS WITH THEM. In fact, colonists began joining the native culture to the extent that it started causing major problems for the colonies’ leaders. You know how illegal aliens basically risk their lives to come to the States? Well, the settlers were risking their lives to LEAVE THEIR OWN CULTURE AND JOIN THE NATIVE ONE. Ben Franklin wrote that Europeans tried stopping the outflow to the extent that Hernando De Soto was posting guards to keep the settlers in the colonies. Think about that, people.
SOURCE: [link]
When we hear about World War II, we immediately think about the Nazis and how they slaughtered millions of innocent Jews. We’ll never forget about how America completely emasculated Japan at Pearl Harbor. But we rarely, if ever, hear about what Japan did to Korea. To put it very innocently, Korea was under Japanese rule, and they took Korean slaves. Today, the Koreans still harbor very deeply-seated hatred toward Japan. My best friend’s mother is from Korea, and my best friend’s boyfriend is Japanese. Her mom hates him and is inhospitable to him SIMPLY BECAUSE HE’S JAPANESE. Yet we never really hear about that incident, nor do we even seem to consider Koreans’ discrimination against the Japanese to be racist. We never consider that Native Americans would fight each other and kill each other off just as anyone else would. It’s inconceivable that there were peaceful tribes and hostile tribes, and that these hostile tribes would terrorize the populace. No one seems to know anything about Minami-Tori-Shima , a tiny island of extreme strategic importance, or that the Asians are having a bloodbath over it.
Nope. All we ever seem to hear about is how the white people are stealing from others, how the white people are raping others, how the white people are otherwise making life hell for everyone else. All the while, some faggot in Hollywood can make and hang by noose an effigy of Sarah Palin and it’s perfectly acceptable, because it’s only wrong if a “majority” hates on a “minority.” But, if someone does the same basic thing to the Almighty Obama, they’re dealt with immediately. Racism is racism, hate is hate, and bigotry is bigotry. There isn’t a separate word for all the precious “minorities,” but if anyone is truly a minority, it’s white people. Racism is all the same, and it’s all bad. The color of your skin doesn’t make you any better or worse than anyone else. Everyone fights, everyone destroys, and everyone waves their proverbial dick around to show everyone else who’s boss. It’s not a phenomenon that is shared by only one or two groups of people; it is shared by the entire human race. So stop demonizing white people, because as it currently stands, most everyone else acts worse than they do.
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