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- 20 Feb 08
- 8:58 am
I found the approach this article took extremely annoying and potentially damaging in propagating hopelessness. History will always be there. People must stop falling back on their history and take responsibility for themselves and their families right now in the present. People may have disadvantages for MANY reasons: slavery in their ancestry, being a child of immigrants, being female vs. being male, being homosexual, divorce of their parents, history of child abuse, language barriers, physical "disabilities", having come from poverty, losing a wife, mother, child, etc.. etc.. Race and history is just on of them, and who is to say that …

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- 20 Feb 08
- 10:28 pm
Point taken, but not only are the founding fathers not ME, they are not my fathers. I understand tangible and financial barriers, because I grew up in them. I also understand discrimination, because I have experienced it in my line of work as a woman. I'm sure my family and yours has boosted the asset portfolios of many greedy wealthy men. Why not relate, instead of explaining differences down to black "type a". and black "type b". We all have barriers, hopelessness is just another to add, if you so choose. Race IS an issue, but where it is not, such …

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