No. I think this is something I know I am out on a wing on but something I hope will become appreciated in time.

No-one is "black" or "white". They are meaningless categories, although those whose ancestors were forced into slavery have often completely lost touch with their original culture and have had to find a new one.

There though those who that many would categorise as "white" have almost nothing in common with one another when living in their original cultures.

I also know that once people start to share a culture they absorb it, whatever their skin colour might be. I have friends whose roots lie in India via Uganda whose cultural attitudes are much closer to my own than many I encounter here. They are very proud, hard-working Brits. They aren't either "black" or "asian".

I just think we need to drop this terminology not just because it's inaccurate but because it's divisive and getting rid of it could help things.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

It can be. As you prove. Motivation changes intention. If you withhold something in order not to cause harm to another then you aren't lying. You are caring. The care trumps the omission.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Stronging it a bit there, Maine. Even the Old Testament only visited the inequities of the fathers on the sons for four generations.

Who taught you this stuff? Honestly, who?

The people who captured the Nigerian around the campfire were other Nigerians....slavery was a part of African commence for thousands of years before the Europeans turned up. Indeed, slavery continues in Africa to this day....Anything else you want to blame Europeans for?

No, the Europeans bought the slaves off the African leaders who sold them....that's what actually happened. Do you go around saying that modern day African Americans should be aware of, or in some way feel an historic burden for their ancestors (and current ones) exploitation of slavery? I think not.

The Africans sold them....just as they had been doing to the Arabs before the Europeans and just as they had been doing to other African leaders for thousands of years before that.

You are brainwashed into a very narrow narrative that deliberately ignores the history it isn't interested in.....because it's an agenda for power, not an actual depiction of wider truth.

As for invading and colonizing other countries.....We know that the original South African tribes were wiped out, actually genocided by West Africans a few hundred years ago....I bet you didn't even know that the white Dutch 'south Africans' have been in South Africa longer than the originally West Africans who constitute most of the black population there.

War is a universal aspect of human behaviour yet you show indoctrination when you choose to blame your Europeans ancestors because they won more of them than other people....who were all engaged in it when it suited them.

Carry on kneeling if you want to...it's almost funnier than the movies.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Apparently, Giuliani flunked in court today regarding the penn state appeal, he got the judges name wrong, and got the meaning of a word completely opposite than its reality, the opposition lawyer pointed out that Biden had actually won the state by over 70,000 votes, I never realised it was by so much, but Giuliani bombed, the first time he had been in court in a professional role for nearly 30 years, so was a little rusty to say the least!

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“He shouldn’t be judged by today’s standards” Absolutely neither should the Europeans involved,

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