[bloodrayne]

Originally posted by Angelakillsluts
I just think that your lineage has a lot to do with how successful you are. If some where a long the line, even if it's your great-great-great-great grandparents were getting beaten up for trying to read signs on a window... I think having a strong lineage of intelligent individuals is important and I think that black people were robbed of that.

Okay...I see your point...BUT...

I believe that racism (which will most likely ALWAYS exist) is more to be blamed for lack of opportunities, for ALL races, than slavery is (at the present time)...But, at what point do you break away from that past?...The opportunities ARE available now, a person can obtain a decent education no matter what their race or background, I know many people of different races that are VERY intelligent....At what point does it end?...Don't you think that somewhere along the line, it can be considered an excuse?...Will people always be able to say "I can't make it because of my ancestors' trials?"

Were Will Smith, Condaleeza Rice, Colin Powell, Luther Vandross, Michael Clarke Duncan, and a million other successful people, descendants of slaves?...I don't even know, yet whether they were or not, it doesn't seem to have mattered...

Hispanics, Native Americans, etcetera, were never enslaved...And yet...