I don't believe a word the atf says.
If anybody knows about what they did in waco, texas back in 93, they wouldn't either.
fuck the atf.
addressing the post above, during the civil war about 3 million white people who never owned 1 slave fought to give them their freedom.About 600,000 of these men and boys sacrificed their lives in this effort.
about another million or so were seriously mamed and wounded. Plus the grief so many famillys who never owned a slave suffered through in that time.
I never heard one black person show appreciation for this.
So I don't ever want to hear anyone bitching about slavery either.
It was 150-300 years ago, only the rich farm owners had slaves and most of all everybody who was alive then is DEAD.
If anybody feels that what I said was racist, too bad, and it wasn't.
I don't think that's racist at all. I have always felt the same way about the whole "reparations" issue. Black people,
who are alive today, have
no idea what being a slave was like. They have
no idea how good they have it, when compared to the lives of their enslaved ancestors (
if they even had enslaved ancestors at all).
Slavery was abolished in 1865, so
anyone who claims that they "deserve"
anything due to slavery-related issues would have to be
at least 143 years old to actually have merit in saying that. Since there is
no such person that exists, nobody deserves anything for our country's former allowance of slaves.
Also, those who want to bring their ancestry into that argument are just making a piss-poor effort at trying to make people feel bad for them. Bringing ancestry into an argument holds no merit what-so-ever. For instance...
My ancestry traces back to Ireland and Germany. So, since I have German ancestry, should I be treated as a Nazi, being held responsible to some degree for killing millions and millions of Jews? I mean, after all, my ancestors went through all of that, so I must have personally went through it as well...right? Fuck no.
Also, if black people were given reparations for what
their ancestors went through (once again,
if they even had enslaved ancestors to begin with), then wouldn't the
opposite hold true with "making things right?" Shouldn't the people who had ancestors that owned slaves be
punished for what their ancestors did? :dunno:
People who want things to be "made right" for what their distant ancestors were forced to go through are huge cry babies who just want free stuff and they are actually doing nothing but
disrespecting the people that
actually had to
suffer.
:2 cents: