It's funny that you assume I'm white. I don't know from what planet you got that. I never avoided discussing my own history, unless talking about other countries in combination counts. (It's funny that whenever I don't talk about other countries, I'm culturally insensitive, but when I do, I'm trying to provide a scapegoat) If you read the actual comment I wrote, I said,
But I get what you're trying to say and both countries should be ashamed and work to achieve excellent morals in the future.
The conversation was never dropped in the US. It will never be dropped. Racism will always exist and as long as it does there will be people in the media complaining about it. Not a day goes by where someone forgets what happened and what continues to happen (I use that figuratively, by the way, before you go out correcting me.)
Which school did you go to that didn't discuss what happened? Whichever one it was, I'm sorry that you had to attend that institution, but at every school I've been at or I've seen they've explained in detail what happened.
America's racism resulted in many deaths, yes, and I will never forgive the government for that, but drawing comparisons with that and the Holocaust, as well as any other deaths that came as a result of World War II (some estimates have been put as high as seventy million) isn't right. We should never forget what happened to the Natives, but we should also hold even more dearly what happened to the rest of the world.
This may be a bit of a grammar thing, but racism in America didn't lead to slavery; slavery led to racism in America. But I get what you are trying to say.
"It was a long time ago!"/"I'm not racist!"/"I never owned any slaves!", etc.
I've never heard anyone say this?
It completely derails the necessary conversation for trying to end racism.
I completely agree, to be honest.
Finally, I do agree that we should try harder to address these things and what happened and we are not doing an adequate job. But is talking about it on reddit going to help? You and I both know what happened, and so does everyone else on this thread, so there's little point talking about it. But I would love a suggested solution to the problem of ignorance of the past in America. Mine would probably just be a new curriculum for schools and what they cover (and while we're talking about that, maybe take a bit of a break on the military spending/social security to help fund infrastructure and education.)
Overall, I agree with many of the things you said. The stereotype is that Americans are much more reactionary than proactionary (is that a word?) but a message to both of us, whining about it on reddit isn't going to help, so with that, I wish you a good day.
EDIT: I realize that this reply kind of zigzags between opinions, sorry about that lol. GAD gives terrible mood swings