banjojack wrote:
You and oldroy are pissing up a rope. You are talking about Adagio here. He has a couple of beliefs he hangs onto, regardless. You will certainly not change his core belief, which is that in a black on white crime, or a white on black, for that matter, the only thing that matters is that it is always, always, always the white's fault. Every time. No exceptions, because any exceptions are racist. Whites are somehow collectively responsible for everything that was ever done to blacks. YOU are responsible because someone you never heard of owned slaves that you also never heard of 200 years ago. Even though blacks have owned slaves since the dawn of recorded history, it's all the white man's fault. Slavery in this country is all the white man's fault, even though the 1830 US Census shows 3,770 odd blacks owning some 12000 plus slaves, he will tell you that they were simply protecting their families. About 40 percent were doing just that . The other 60 percent, I suppose, who owned 50, 60, even more than 80 slaves certainly had large families. Slavery in this country is all the white man's fault, event though most of the slaves brought to this country had already been enslaved by other blacks. His own racism is apparent; he denigrates blacks by insisting they are owed everything and are responsible for nothing, and have to have special consideration to make it, because they are some sort of inept problem children who are incapable of standing on their own feet, and accepting responsibility for their own actions; it is invariably the white man's fault. Adagio is quite comfortable in his simplistic little bubble of fantasy, leave him be.
You and oldroy are pissing up a rope. You are tal... (
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Quid Pro Quo, banjojack: Well stated. "leave him be", you bet. a-dog exhibits he is just an invincible petrified mind. :thumbup: