I'm dealing with it right now buddy...

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: I was called plenty of names when I was a kid too. : All kids get called names. : I lived in the inner city and faced the opposite of what you're talking about, but I'm not allowed to talk about that because I'm not a minority anymore. Somewhere along the line my Native American heritage stopped mattering over my Irish heritage and my right to point out the stuff I went through went away because I'm classified as white. : I got picked on by blacks and hispanics who were bigger and badder than me. The Hispanics were picked on by blacks and whites bigger and badder than them and so on. : That's not right but that's how it goes... but just as many of the blacks and whites and hispanics got along fine. We looked out for one another just fine. : What I'm saying is you're not going through what your people did even 10 years ago. : The fact that you can sue for something like that is pretty cool. : 40 years ago you wouldn't have been in that school. : By the way, if your third grade teacher made you sit in the back of the class over that she's an idiot who should have been in trouble and today she would have been fired or reprimanded for something like that. : I got made sit in the back of the class because some kid beat me up when I was little and I didn't fight back. : They still said I was involved though the only think I did was refuse to give the kid my comic book. : I got suspended. : Everyone gets an idiot for a teacher or principle or peer sometimes. There is injustice everywhere. : You're not going through anything compared to your ancestors and the irony of this whole discussion is that you have a chip on your shoulder over one thing. I posted something down there that was true that makes you look at yourself and what you're being taught and you don't like it. : I have to do the same thing when I look at history. : History is ugly man, but you didn't sell your people into slavery and I didn't own a slave. My family has been so poor for so long that I'll bet we never owned a slave, but I know for a fact that no one I've met in my family has owned one. : I also know that you have never been one. : But I also know that African tribes fought each other and the tribe that won would take the other tribe as captives and sell them to slave traders who brought them to scummy american slave owners. : Blacks sold other Blacks to whites and those whites enslaved them for a long time. : The hard truth is you wouldn't be here at all if your tribe had won so long ago, but some kid who decended from the tribe you beat would be. : It's rough to think about if you take 300 years ago personally. So don't. : Your mother fought to get a school to teach black history and you come down on me for knowing something about it? Nope. Makes no sense.

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