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Originally Posted by bELyVIS

You act like black people, or of African descent (which no longer makes sense since I met a white African the other day), were the only race ever enslaved. There are still slaves of all races to this day. And unless you are still a slave, you have the same opportunities as I do in America and thanks "Affirmative Action" in some cases better than others. So how have you been destroyed? Again, we all make our own opportunities.

But the original poster was referring to American hardships, not any other place. We still have a ways to go, and no one can deny that black/African American males are still having trouble climbing up the ladder even with Affirmative Action. I'm just thinking about my mother's workplace. You can probably count on one hand how many males "of color" actually work there.

I don't think their history is more painful than others, they just choose to keep reminding everyone of it. Why is it OK for a black person to use the "N" word but if a white does it they are a racist? It would be better if we just left the history in the past and [b]everyone quit playing the victim game and quit using all racial slurs.

Because it's a stupid double standard. It's like it was programmed for us to "fear white people" or something because of the bad history. When whites use it, it's associated with hatred of us, so that's probably why it's assumed that the white person is a racist if he/she decides to use it. When blacks use it, imo, it's just downright stupid, but even reading those old slave narratives, even they used the term, but, it's not surprising since they were forced here and had to learn English and probably heard it (it's like when a child may use bad language; he/she didn't come out knowing it, they had to learn it or pick it up from someplace). If it's all they heard, I could understand why they would use it. There's no excuse for it now.