01-07-2014, 01:27 PM
very good point, primal edge.
you know, in africa, sometimes people there die of many different causes. it could be malaria, a hippo attack, you name it. so while it is true that anywhere from 5-50 million africans perished in the atlantic slave trade, that same amount would have eventually died of natural causes had they stayed on the african continent!
i wonder if you ask a native hawaiian if they would rather still have their original traditional way of dividing their own land versus working at wal-mart to pay rent to a white person what they would choose? surely it would be wal-mart - there was no minimum wage way back then, you know. must have been so hard.
primal edge - i totally agree with you. i mean 120 years ago is like ancient times. being mad about things from back then is like holding on to resentment from the stone age. these ungrateful hawaiians should really learn to just move on, it's the modern world, baby! we have hyrdrogen bombs and striped toothpaste for goddsakes, as my friend john west would say. besides, i'm sure hawaii is so much more beautiful now than it was then, and life soooo much better.
btw that last paragraph you wrote is perhaps the most ignorant piece of garbage i have ever read anywhere. it is exactly that kind of attitude which causes any racism you may feel directed towards you. well that and the fact that their land was stolen from their great-grandparents 120 years ago.
you know, in africa, sometimes people there die of many different causes. it could be malaria, a hippo attack, you name it. so while it is true that anywhere from 5-50 million africans perished in the atlantic slave trade, that same amount would have eventually died of natural causes had they stayed on the african continent!
i wonder if you ask a native hawaiian if they would rather still have their original traditional way of dividing their own land versus working at wal-mart to pay rent to a white person what they would choose? surely it would be wal-mart - there was no minimum wage way back then, you know. must have been so hard.
primal edge - i totally agree with you. i mean 120 years ago is like ancient times. being mad about things from back then is like holding on to resentment from the stone age. these ungrateful hawaiians should really learn to just move on, it's the modern world, baby! we have hyrdrogen bombs and striped toothpaste for goddsakes, as my friend john west would say. besides, i'm sure hawaii is so much more beautiful now than it was then, and life soooo much better.
btw that last paragraph you wrote is perhaps the most ignorant piece of garbage i have ever read anywhere. it is exactly that kind of attitude which causes any racism you may feel directed towards you. well that and the fact that their land was stolen from their great-grandparents 120 years ago.