[Janna]

Slavery occured almost 200 years ago, but how many years ago were we segregated? How many years ago was it that blacks couldn't vote or drink from the same water fountain as whites? How many years ago were we lynched or our houses were burnt to the ground. Not that many years ago and maybe in your parents or grandparents lifetime. We are trying to move forward, why do you think we even are where we are today? It's not easy when we are still being discriminated against. If all the injustices against blacks were over, I wouldn't live in fear of the police or I wouldn't still be hearing about a kid I know having a policeman put a gun to his head because he looked like a suspect, etc. Do you understand that all of our culture was stripped from us and we were seperated from our families and how that affects our unity. Divide and conquer, right. You talk about us going back to Africa. How easy do you think that would be? Do you understand that some of blacks don't feel a real connection to Africa or America for that matter and why? Where do we belong? It's like we don't really belong anywhere at all, too black for America, too American for Africa? I always laugh when I hear whites say, 'go back to Africa', like they have a right to be here and like they didn't bring us here in the first place. Why don't you go back to England, France, Ireland, Spain, and leave this country to the people who belong here. Oh, I forgot you killed them off, and screwed them too.

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[Janna]

I know and have met a lot of Jamaicans in my lifetime and don't recall any of them having flat noses. How many Jamaicans do you know? If it is a small amount, maybe it is just coincidental that the Jamaicans you know have flat noses. The only other explanation would be that flat noses were a dominant feature on the faces of the specific tribe that was brought from Africa to Jamacica.

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[Janna]

If you want to talk about media double standards, look at the way the media portrays blacks on TV. I agree there should be one set of rules and laws for everyone, regardless of race. This is the same justice we have been fighting for all along. I wish America worked that way. You see one hate crime by a black person against whites and find that it is unfair. Maybe now you feel a tiny bit of what blacks feel all the time when we get treated unfairly by the law, media and justice system.

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