RE: Can America ever truly pay for its sins?
December 6, 2021 at 12:36 pm
(This post was last modified: December 6, 2021 at 2:34 pm by Brian37.)
(December 4, 2021 at 7:42 pm)T.J. Wrote: When I mention sins I'm talking about the fact that hundreds of years ago the people who came to this country slaughtered the people who were here first and took their land. Later they enslaved the blacks, treated women like property and wouldn't even allow them to vote until as soon as 1920. Sending the Japanese people into camps after the attack at Pearl Harbor. And I'm sure the list just gets bigger and bigger.
Is there anyway for America to truly confront its past and change for the better or is it just too great a wound to heal?
Discuss.
Humans don't live forever so memories, unless passed down to the next generation, can and do fade with time. Often I get the ignorant "Why are you trying to make me feel guilty for something I wasn't around to do?." And that is a very ignorant response. It isn't about shaming the current generation, it is about remembering history as to not repeat it.