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Ya! Let's do more to eliminate racism, perhaps a website that shows how slavery affected us, so we can move past it and turn a new page. Oh wait...
by therogerwilco 13y ago
Ya! Let's do more to eliminate racism, perhaps a website that shows how slavery affected us, so we can move past it and turn a new page. Oh wait...
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- badman_ting 13y agoEver notice how nobody talks about "moving on from the past" on July 4th?
- Crito 13y agoNot that I agree with GP, but to be fair I don't think most Americans could even tell you when the last time we were at war with the British was.
- badman_ting 13y agoPrecisely, in a way.
- Crito 13y agoWell, I guess what I am getting at is that there is no lingering animosity and oppression between the British and the US. British/Irish relations might be a better analogy. Telling a black American to get over it might be roughly comparable to telling an Irish person to get over the British. In that case there are true atrocities in the past and continued conflict and animosity continued into the modern era.
- gweinberg 13y agoLong before anyone alive today was born, that's for sure.
- rdl 13y agoIs this a trick question? I'd immediately assume War of 1812 (if you mean "at war against the British", vs. fighting as allies, which would be...today). There were stirrings during the US Civil War, but it didn't rise to combat.
- PavlovsCat 13y ago"The secret to reconciliation is remembrance!" -- plaque at the train station in Darmstadt, Germany ( http://i.imgur.com/D2mbGAe.jpg http://i.imgur.com/D2mbGAe.jpg )
- rayiner 13y agoThe premise of American civil suits is "moving past" the event that gave rise to the suit. Once a suit has been resolved, it is "res judicata" and cannot be re-litigated. However, intrinsic to that process is "make whole relief." A suit cannot be resolved without the defendant putting the plaintiff back in the position he would have been prior to the wrongdoing.
- smtddr 13y agoI did not understand your comment at all; but it is beautiful... I think. Also, I'm glad to see HN didn't let therogerwilco's comment ruin this article submission's comment section. It's been voted to the bottom of the page where it belongs, out of the way of productive conversation.
- mturmon 13y agoHere's an eloquent post from Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose excellent blog is partly devoted to exactly the question you asked: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/hitler-on-the-mississippi-banks/283127/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/hit... And a second smart post about the relationship between remembering and moving on: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/to-europe-yes-but-together-with-our-dead/283358/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/to-...