Current Events > ND rep says blacks are "glad their ancestors were brought here"

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Dobervich also criticized Jones' bill as oversimplifying the nation's troubled past with race, adding "there's nothing healing about this."
"I don't think (the bill) is meant to be racist, but the optics are not good," Dobervich said.
Jones said his proposal acknowledges America's history with race, but it focuses on commonalities rather than differences.

He added that citizens of all backgrounds are proud to be American, saying of Black Americans, "they're glad their ancestors were brought here as slaves."
Jones said he believes in this sentiment because he read a Reader's Digest article from the 1980s in which a Black doctor visited an African country during a period of civil conflict and made remarks about being grateful that his ancestors had been taken to America.
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Yikes

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Tfw not living on a smallholder farm right now with my new wife who is an elderly widow

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Crazy statements like this are just glossed over and this kind of person can stay in office. This country sucks

Even if there was no Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Africa would likely not been in the state that its in now if it were not for European colonialism. Hell, they may have even been better off in an untouched Africa.

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BuT wHy DoN't BlAcK pEoPlE vOtE rEpUbLiCaN

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An old bastard of a white man speaking on behalf of minorities.

How original.

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I thought the Greeks and Romans fucked over Africa way back

I'm ready for someone to come in here going "Well ACTUALLY he's right because *blah blah blah*"
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bobaban posted...

I thought the Greeks and Romans fucked over Africa way back

They were on more equal footing, at least with Carthage etc, but there is millennia of trade and connection with Africa.

Saying an untouched Africa is taking a very modern view of it.

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Colonials: (completely fuck over Africa)

Also Colonials: "You see because Africa was so fucked they're better off this way"

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There almost certianly are Black people out there who agree with him. And there are almost certianly Black people out there who don't. The thing about Black people, and indeed all groups of people (at least until you start bringing political / religious extremist groups into the picture), is that they're usually not hiveminds and they have a variety of opinions, even if some opinions may be more common than others.

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He later added "I wish my ancestors had been brought here as slaves! Can you imagine how proud I would be of America? I would be so proud, like, man, you would not believe it. Like, if you had a big jar, like a gallon jar, and you put my pride into it, well, you could probably almost fill the jar."

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