Hopefully at least 90% of it is history.  I understand what the man is saying and it has nothing to do with racism or white people who think only they are or have a right to be interested in their own history.  What comes to mind is that old saying about beating a dead horse while miraculously keeping it alive by using it to garner sympathy and special treatment hundreds of years after the fact.  He may not have said it as politically correctly as some would like, but his view has as much validity as any other view here.  Furthermore, one thing he is NOT doing is rewriting history as in painting savages who murder and mutilate as wholesome and respectable, which brings to mind another old saying about making a silk purse from a sow's ear.

Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:  It's history. If all history is to be "gotten over", why are we even 
in this group? Why do any one of us read any record or account, or 
write any book or paper? Let's just burn it all, it's over, forget 
about it.

Why are YOU in this group? Or are only white people allowed to have 
an interest in their history?

Geez, lighten up...

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On Feb 11, 2007, at 9:30 PM, Basil Forest wrote:

> Get over it. Slavery has been dead since the 13th amendment in 1865.
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