Reply #169: What insensitivity!!

[Tomee450]

"not giving money to people as an apology for things long in the past.
Unfortunately many people share your attitude which imo, shows a lack of sensitivity to the feeling of millions of black people. We have oral histories of the suffering of our people who were slaves and their suffering may be long past to you but not to millions of African American. Even today, I am always pained when I read of young children being sold away from their parents, never to be seen by them again. There are millions of blacks who lived under awful Jim Crow laws and that experience is not "long past" to them or their progeny. African Americans are asked to forget the past while others are doing Civil War enactments, showing the confederate flags, joining the Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters of the Confederates, Remembering the Alamo etc. Blacks are asked to forget their past while others are allowed to remember their history. There is something wrong with that picture and we all know what it is.