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The New DU. Reply #54: The United States didn't invent colonialism but we sure embraced it.
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Mon Oct-01-07 05:03 PM
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I have to say, I think it is really insensitive and just downright rude to suggest that African Americans should be grateful that their ancestors were brutalized. The same people responsible for the Atlantic slave trade are largely responsible for the fact that so many people around the world are hungry today.
It's illogical to dismiss past atrocities - especially ones so institutionalized and long-running as the Atlantic slave trade - simply because atrocities exist today.
Let's look at the root cause of all these atrocities. When we do, we find the same people and the same greedy nasty behavior at the root of them.
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