by yoshi » Jun 3rd, '11, 23:46
I don't really think you can judge it. All of them are nothing else than huge tragedies that we were responsible for and whose consequences we're still facing today, whether it's the burden of slavery and living in a ghetto, reservations or concentration camps. And it doesn't really matter how long ago it happened, in my opinion they're all crimes against the humanity and should be judged like this.
Choosing between them doesn't make sense (to me at least) since I believe that human life and dignity stands above anything else. Whoever takes it away from you - and that's basically what they've done to Jews, Native Americans (Northern and Southern), Africans and Balkanians too - commits a terrible crime. People of all races and religions are equal and when I think about the past I sometimes feel ashamed even though I wasn't a part of this.
To make it short, because I think we're all aware of what has happened: we've done a terrible thing to the Native Americans. It was nothing else than destroying the entire culture. Their land, their religions and languages. Who gave them right to do it? No one. And still, the Europeans just invaded them and took everything that defined them, enslaved them and murdered, and in the end, locked them up in reservations. The irony is just killing me by the way - we invaded them and locked them up in their OWN land.. It's just.. wrong.
Africans? Same. It was nothing else than simple bestiality. Stealing them from their motherland, locking them up and handcuffing and sending in unhuman conditions to America where all they've done was building up the country that enslaved them and made them believe they're something worse and less than white people. And it's been going on for AGES now, and we're stupid enough to continue it today.
When I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau camp, it was probably one of the saddest and most disgusting things I've ever seen. It's unbeliveable, the display cabinets with human hair (and by that I mean A LOT of human hair collected by the Nazis, they'd make textile out of it) or collected glasses, or the building devoted to children (which literally made me cry) or crematories - I just can't really understand how fucked up mind you'd have to have to come up with something like this. I literally have no words for that.
I doubt any other race has done more stupid and terrible things than the white one. Not to mention that white people are mostly Christians, believing and supposingly following the 10 commandments. My conclusion is quite simple, yet solid: people are fucked up.
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