Like most Scot-Irish boys have American Native Blood running through these veins on both sides of the family, including my maternal great grandmother who was full on Cherokee...

We've got friends in many tribes with my parents best friends being Lakota...

"indentured servants"

yeah i have to say my Irish roots are as mixed as any even by the late 1600's. Everyone conquered and enslaved us. My forefathers fell of the boat as "indentured servants" to an English tobacco baron in the Carolinas at the turn of the century. They might be one of the first run away slaves in America. So when it comes to being a true American mutt i have to say we are as pure as a mutt can ever be. I have almost every European blood line, more than one of the Indian nations and also a couple of African nations flowing through my veins. When MLK talked about seeing the world as grey I think i can understanding what he was getting at.

"indentured servants" i always loved that PC term for slavery. An Entire nation murdered and owned by various European countries for centuries. leave it to the English to come up with such a clean sounding word.

So Slavery is not owned by any one race. besides why do African Americans with decent to this time period allow an African fresh of the boat to use the "N" word? history in Africa was one were they practiced slavery also for 1000s of year and made a some money selling slaves long before the Europeans started buying them. Just as social acceptable there it was around the world at that time. Besides that Africans forefather might be from the tribe that originally put your tribe into slavery to begin with.

Historically the argument just does not hold water for a person like me. Every nationality has been enslaved some where in history.

I say get off your soap box and stop pointing your finger at me. go clean up your own house first then talk to me. by they way i know more white ******s than black ******s. Hell i know ******s of all kinda of colors. I have moved beyond race and I am no longer a racist. equality for all. rich or poor makes no difference. If you want people stop using the word then everyone must stop. other wise i view the argument as self serving and not valid. it is racist.

i wonder if the "N" word will post

my history thesis was on this very topic. got a c then debated the issue for hours over the course of a month or so with my prof before she gave me a better grade. no she was not white, actually we are more pink than white, she was of African decent. good friends still today. she is the only person that can call me cracker.

nope ******s

PS we are Americans. till we accept it and stop labeling our selves we will get no where. Go back to your home land they will tell you. your american. stop all the subdividing already

As far as the Africans prospering off slaves, no historical basis behind that. None whatsoever. Europeans would pock a side in the war between two tribes, give them guns and supplies, then when one side one and took prisoners of war they would then trade those prisoners for more guns and supplies. Nothing like the way people try to portray it. The Europeans were raiding African villages and taking slaves for years. Europe started the craze. America followed suit. I hate that scapegoat.

excellent post. but this is the same point i had with my history prof. first no scapegoat point is in tended. history is always has a few versions of the same topic as we all know. In this case i had to read actual slave traders journals, manuscripts and company shipping ledgers to find out more about the topic. in the beginning it was simple and it went as i stated. but as demand increased so did the nasty nature of profiteering. much the same as it is today so not much has change in that ideology just the victims. once greed gets a hold of anything those people making the profit turn a blind eye to what the costs really are. those are the ones becuase of their wealth get off Scott free of responsibility. hmmm scott free need to look at that term.

my intent was not to slough off blame or minimize the horror of the business at all. the point was simple blame does not rest on a persons color as is the case today. The world as a whole is to blame and the world as a whole has been a victim of this horrifying crime. Some parts of world still are. as i stated the real criminals are the ones that made the big bucks and yet they seem to go unmentioned in history. money can buy you everything.

example here is, being mostly irish myself, i can a testify to the fact that irish sold and killed off fellow irish in much the same was as the British watched and profited till the brits got greedy and wanted more. then it got worse. now even today i still get a bit stand offish when i am offered a black and tan on st patties day. most people do not understand what exactly that phrase really is all about. but in no way do I go ballistic over it when a British person even mentions it. it is a drink that serves as a reminder and minimizes at the same time the horrors surrounding that time period in Irish history. It pretty much sealed the fate of the country till revolution struck the south of Ireland. But i do not fly off the handle and beat a drum over it. Mick is not the greatest historical term for an irsh person either.

Question why is it can travel anywhere in the world were African slaves were bought and sold and use the word and get no response what so ever?

Why is America held captive to such a blatant form of discrimination when it appears the rest of the world has moved on?

the civil right thing just justifies my view of the hypocrisy of history and the civil war. they removed the shackles but they remained enslaved. without the war the Irish and Italians would have remained the cheap labor and dispensable work force of this country. free slaves took over most of these jobs and were not treated a whole lot better. economic slavery and work camps we not that great of a step forward but it was a start. since carpetbagger's basically stole the 60 acres and the mule from the freed slaves. which in turned sold the land off to same industrial giants that put the slave to work in these horrid factories.

Take a honest look at our countries history and see what the world general views us as. It leaves a bad taste in their mouth about the things we have done. They are not innocent but at least they stand up and admit to what they have done, well for the most part and do not candy coat the negative aspects as much as we do.

I love our country and their are very few place in the world i would live besides here but we have a mess right now and many of those issue i place blame with congress, the president, lobbyist and lawyers from the past 50 years or more. opppsss lawyers hold all of those positions so sorry for repeating myself. they love us dwelling on the past because it keeps us from looking forward and seeing what they are doing to this country. they are the reason these things will not be settled. they keep it alive and feed it.

so back to the issue.

why do some Indians hate any association of their culture related to any ethnic culture in the US? i think it is plan as day. The Europe/U.S. invasion of the Americas resulted in them pulling off probably the greatest ethnic cleansing the world has ever seen. yet history does not portray it as such here in this country.

still to today they are the only minority that has to prove their blood line because the US still refuses to honor original treaties they broke and replaced with monetary cash offers. which in fact is still sitting there collecting interest waiting to be received. thus if you are not a certain percentage you loose your right to make a claim. that is the tip of the iceberg. pretty big tip i would have to say.

If any nationality in this country deserves to raise an uproar it is them.

Now if the media which controls (or is "controlled by" depends on how you look at it) the government would step back and stop singling out one race for preferential treatment then we as a society may just find a way to move on and become closer to being a more unified country. then we might truly get some where. I truly believe the flames of bigotry are fanned by the 5 companies that control 99% of our national media.

Which IMO is just what the controlling interests in this country want. nothing would strike fear into them more than a people untied all turning out to vote, hold them accountable and taking power away from them. Conspiracy? maybe. but as long as the voters remain divided they can be conquered. or controlled once again depends how you look at it.

It is up to the youth of this country to make this change because the civil rights generation has not done that great of job of handling it. we talked a good talk and we started strong but we dropped the ball along the way and have not done a great job of finishing it off. Are we really Americans? we aint there yet. Till the desire of our people to become one and solve our isuues we will never truly see and end to this type of thinking.

ok off my soap box

I don't disagree much of anything you just said. I like to highlight the younger generation. It's changing. All races are starting to dress alike, walk alike, talk alike, and date each other. The younger generation of black kids aren't as harsh about the use of the n word as the ones before us. I for one stopped getting mad about it by the time I hit 7 years old. It was a dumb fight to fight. And as long as it was the white teachers of Mississippi teaching me I got no pass for beating a kid up after being called a nigge(r) with obvious hate in the tone. My problem comes more with people trying to act like they don't understand why it might be a issue to blacks. The parents and grandparents of certain generations must of held a lot of secrets and told a lot of lies, because let them tell it in a place like Mississippi that was the hotbed for racism nobody was ever a part of it.

And honestly, blacks are the only ones who don't have any ties to their original ancestry. I don't know what African tribe my people came from. That's lost. To me, Irish, French, English, German, whatever, white is white. Black is black. And Oriental is oriental.

i live in boston now and this blew me away also. they hammer the south and i always point out the bigotry here. I married a woman fresh off the boat from Italy. you should see the looks i get when we walked through the north end of town. then the looks she would get when we visit the south side.

I have to agree with there white folks are whacked. we need a lot work.

I got corrected once. Oriental is not a race it is a style. Asian is an ethnic region. even then take a subway in boston and if you want oriental food and want a specific nationality just wait till that group exsists the train. you surface surround by that groups own little village.

I take great offense to being called white. we are basically pink and when it comes to color we turn more shades than any race on the planet.

we have a long way to go