Oh, I agree. And the reason why America still has a race issue is because these people won't stop bringing race up. But if institutionalized racism were a thing, why is it that the Filipinos, a group of people who were enslaved since the mid 1500s, are thriving? Many I know are pursuing higher education to become nurses and what not.
Look. We know slavery was bad. No doubt about that. But if a people like Filipinos, who literally had to subsist off entrails and other food that was deemed too disgusting to the Spaniards to be used as even fertilizer (not even touching on the Filipino genocide), are able to get it together amidst Affirmative Action (one of the most blatantly racist things and also conceived by the left, funnily enough) that heavily discriminates against Asians (as if every country in Asia is a developed nation like Japan or Korea), there's no reason why any of these protected races shouldn't.
Bear in mind, the only reason why I'm even pointing any of this out isn't because I'm particularly affected in any way shape or form. If anything, I'm pointing this out specifically because I'm not. In fact, no Filipino I know brings this up. Not because we (I say we though I'm only part) don't know about it, but because we're not victims of it. It'd be disrespectful to use what happened to our ancestors as a way to benefit us today, anyway. Besides. I'm Canadian now, anyway. Maybe an American soon, if y'all will let me.
Oh, I agree. And the reason why America still has a race issue is because these people won't stop bringing race up. But if institutionalized racism were a thing, why is it that the Filipinos, a group of people who were enslaved since the mid 1500s, are thriving? Many I know are pursuing higher education to become nurses and what not.
Look. We know slavery was bad. No doubt about that. But if a people like Filipinos, who literally had to subsist off entrails and other food that was deemed too disgusting to the Spaniards to be used as even fertilizer (not even touching on the Filipino genocide), are able to get it together amidst Affirmative Action (one of the most blatantly racist things and also conceived by the left, funnily enough) that heavily discriminates against Asians (as if every country in Asia is a developed nation like Japan or Korea), there's no reason why any of these protected races shouldn't.
Bear in mind, the only reason why I'm even pointing any of this out isn't because I'm particularly affected in any way shape or form. If anything, I'm pointing this out specifically because I'm not. In fact, no Filipino I know brings this up. Not because we (I say we though I'm only part) don't know about it, but because we're not victims of it. It'd be disrespectful to use what happened to our ancestors as a way to benefit us today, anyway. Besides. I'm Canadian now, anyway. Maybe an American soon, if y'all will let me.