>From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 17:55:24 -0400 > > >Sometimes I just have to shake my head and ask myself, "what the hell are >these people thinking?" > >Maybe some day, people like the inventor of this game, will instead put >their creative energy into ideas and programs that will not make minority >children grow up with the perpetual "victim" mindset. As long as >Affirmative >Action, Slave Reparations and similar ideals exist, there will be no true >equality or freedom.
You could argue a convincing case that victims of the Holocaust (Jewish or otherwise) still have a mindset founded in persecution and victimhood. Black people in this country weren't "Negroes" and worse more than a generation ago in most areas. Yes, a game like this perpetuates stereotypes and the culture of the victim, but we may not be that far away from those bad old days as you might think. It may raise awareness towards the possible existence of a current societal problem Speaking of the bad old days: listen to the current and past speeches of Louis Farrakhan, Khalil Mohammed and Al Sharpton. Listen to speeches given by Jesse Jackson 10-15 years ago. They aren't preaching love, peace and the American dream. They's preaching anti-white hate and hatred and disrespect of any and all "White" (or, to be more accurate, "non-Black") authority. By deferring responsibility for their followers they also contribute to the culture of victimhood. Kishore Mahbubani, a Singaporean who is/was a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs and is currently a Singapore diplomat and ambassador to the UN, just published a book entitled: "Can Asians Think?" According to an interview I read with him recently, he believes that they can't, based on some disastrous political-socio-economic choices made by various Asian nations over the last thousand years. Unreal. Can you imagine the uproar in this country if someone wrote a book entitled, "Can Catholics Think?" or "Blacks", or "Jews" or "Muslims?" We'd lynch them. The book may be quite interesting, but I'm not exactly going to buy and read it on the train between Queens and Manhattan... I'd be killed. Jon _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com
