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Shades of Africa | 12 comments (12 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Shades of Africa (none / 1)

I think knowing that frees one up from the sometimes need to look at all.

Exactly. Our family researcher is an Aunt, with CDs etc. I only go back to my maternal grand parents (grew up close to them). Probably because they made the first steps on American soil. Difficult to reconcile the anger directed at the "white man" by a number of ethnic/racial groups, with the fact my family didn't land here until 1917.

Sometimes I feel like yelling: "Everyone who's family was here before 1887 RAISE YOUR HAND! Cool. You all go stand in a corner."

[Somewhere around the 1880's marked the end of the "Indian Wars".]

by rba on Mon Jul 4th, 2005 at 12:40:17 PM EST
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Re: Shades of Africa (none / 0)

Difficult to reconcile the anger directed at the "white man" by a number of ethnic/racial groups, with the fact my family didn't land here until 1917.
Sometimes I feel like yelling: "Everyone who's family was here before 1887 RAISE YOUR HAND! Cool. You all go stand in a corner."

I'm not too fond of the notions of collective guilt, and anger. I think both are rather unhelpful emotions, lots of times, leading to well meaning but sometimes ill-fated actions. I can, however, understand them. We do, as I've mentioned, bear the burdens of our collective histories.

I think a better thing is more of a... hmmm, Western awareness, I guess you would call it. There is little debate in the Western mind of the absolute right to take over other nations, impose governments, decide who can have which weapons, bring 'democracy' by subjugating people, and to siphon off resources to support the Western lifestyle. (This actually may be the view of many regions, but it's just that the West is way better at it... I don't know) Thus, the majority support for the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions (when they were going well)... support was less so among non white Americans, and Europeans, but still even among them it was there.

This is something I believe we all, who are raised in these sorts of nations, need to be aware of and to guard against, regardless of our ethnic origins. The past is past, even though it does reach out to the present... but our only real option is to concentrate on affecting the future.

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by Nanette (nanette at humanbeams dot com) on Mon Jul 4th, 2005 at 03:50:01 PM EST
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Re: Shades of Africa (none / 0)

but our only real option is to concentrate on affecting the future.

Agreed. The goal is to provide a world that is better for our children than it is (was) for us. Our "collective histories" in the American case run only 300 years - youngest among nations. We hold the largest populations outside of native countries of any nation on earth.

Here we have collective responsibility for the actions of our government. Here, we are the government.

by rba on Mon Jul 4th, 2005 at 11:20:56 PM EST
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