[Nicole]

When racism about blacks comes up, many white people say that their ancestors didn’t own slaves. Okay, I’ll understand that argument. But, how did you or your relatives react toward blacks? Did they respect them as human beings, then and now? Did your people show bigotry against them or other races for that matte and do they still act this way? Furthermore, people recite what everyone else, by saying get over it. You can’t get over 400 years of oppression, low self esteem or a mind set in 40 or 50 years. People wonder why we can’t seem to pull ourselves, as much as the other races or people who come here. Well, let me tell you this. Blacks were not acknowledged an education for years. Whites were scared of blacks having an education. I’ve seen old slave documents stating this That was the real reason for racism and discrimination. Whites didn’t want blacks to get hip about them as smart or smarter than them ( about European culture). Most of us didn’t have generations of readers in our families, which is the primary skill to get anywhere. I’m 31 years old. My family is originally from down south (Arkansas). My mother is only 56, she worked as a small child (3 or 4) in the cotton field. I can really only go back to my great-grandmother (which is another problem) who worked and lived on a farm in Arkansas. She didn’t have a good education if that (b. 1907-d. 2000). My great-uncle, who just passed away last fall could barely write, because as young child he lived in a shack and had to work on the farm along with his brother and sisters. I’m not making excuses, but that is just the way it is. Yes, their children had the opportunity of an book learning, but they grew up in a segregated world. The relatives, older than 70 didn’t have the opportunities for a good education. Do you think whites cared about the edification of black children in the ’20’s and ’30’s? No. What I am getting to is that it is going to take a while to, so call ‘get over it.”

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Name : Nicole, Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Christian, Age : 31, City : St. Louis, State : MO, Country : United States, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[ShirleyAvery]

Blacks aren’t the only ones who’ve suffered oppression. AS Bill Cosby suggested, it’s time for blacks to stop making excuses. When your ancestors were sold as slaves, mine were persecuted in Europe and killed & raped for being Jews. Jewish slavery goes back to biblical times and our oppression has continued ever since. Jews were killed and tortured for their beliefs during the Crusades, Spanish Inquistion, and Holocaust. The Holocaust – when 6 million Jews were slaughtered – occurred almost 100 years AFTER the abolition of slavery, yet we’re not using it as an excuse for lack of accomplishment. My 4 grandparents were immigrants, with little or no formal education. NOne spoke a word of English when they came to U.S. My parents had to learn English in school, like forei

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Name : ShirleyAvery, Gender : F, Disability : none, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 52, City : st. louis, State : MO, Country : United States, Occupation : writer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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