Message #11298

[yankeestarbuck]

As a white person, I usually feel like there isn't anything for me to say on this subject.  As far as being an American goes, my family are of Italian decenet and did not arrive in this country until after the Civil War was over.  I do not feel responsible for the horrendous acts of other, people I was not related to nor do I share their point of view.  Do I feel that hundreds of thousands of people were wronged?  Of course, and most Americans do as well.  Can we finally get past this?  



We will never get past the Rodney King verdict riots, will we?  We will not see an end to scenes like that young man who was dragged to his death because he was black, will we?  Can we finally understand that we are not the people who did this in the past, we are not the people to whom this was done and we need to move on and never repeat this attrocity?  Do we, as a society, have to apologize forever?  You can't ever forget something like that.  That would be wrong, to say, forget what happened.  But I can ask, can we be forgiven, finally?