re: African - Americans

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None of those enslaved a race for 400 years.

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What modern nation enslaved a race for 400 years? I guess maybe the UK, unless you're talking about an African nation?

How did Israel manage 400 years of oppression in just 70 years of existence? Same for Singapore? And Zimbabwe is even younger!

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How did Israel manage 400 years of oppression in just 70 years of existence? Same for Singapore? And Zimbabwe is even younger!

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I'll ask again. What modern nation (to be nice and use your very narrow requirements) managed 400 years of oppression?

Australia, for your consideration:

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One of the darkest chapters of Australian history was the forced removal of many indigenous children from their families. The practice began in the earliest days of European settlement and was government policy in parts of the country until the late 1960s. Children as young as babies were taken from their families to be placed in group homes, with foster families or on church missions. Hence, the "Stolen Generations."

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And, hell, it's common in western Europe for racism to be openly displayed at professional sporting events.

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Either way I'm not sure that deserves a laugh emoticon, but whatever.

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Yeah, because the murder of Jews is funny

Just stop.

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but none of those countries aside from South Africa systematically

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You've revealed your ignorance.

Japan STILL enforces racial purity. It's practically open season on blacks in Russia even today. The same goes for many other former Soviet Union countries. In India they have an entire class of dark skinned people known as "untouchables." In the Philippines there is an entire industry devoted to skin lightening because dark Philipinos are considered second class.

I've lived and worked in all of these countries so I'm not speaking from reading books. I've seen their discrimination practices first hand.

I'm not sure why you think racial discrimination is an exclusive invention of the U.S. It's not.

I have always refused to use the term "African-American". I will say "Black" or "Black American".

"Black" is just easier for me to type/say, so that's what I gravitate towards irl. "African-American" can become kind of a mouthful

Use both terms interchangeably. Neither bothers me.

But, in official discourse, I prefer the term "Texan-American," in reference to my person, I'll have you know, good sir

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JFC. An industry devoted to skin lightening in the Philippines is equivalent to slavery and Jim Crow?!? I'm done.

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Hold up.....answer me this: would an industry so blatantly racist as that thrive in the USA today?

Would you not agree that that fact alone highlights a depth of racism that surpasses what we experience as Americans in 2017?

Noticed you skipped right past his mentions of Japan/Russia/India. I've been to Japan....that shite is eye-opening.

Hell, there was a commercial that made the rounds on YouTube like last year for a Japanese laundry detergent company where a black guy is making eyes at a Japanese chick in a laundromat and when he approaches, she throws him in the nearest washing machine. Dude pops back out as a white guy and THEN she embraces him I swear to God I'm not making that up. I'll have to find a link.

Found it. It was a Chinese commercial, my bad

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