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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by yannis on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:10PM (#11521458)
But it may give you a different perspective as to how to deal with the problems of native Americans and disadvantaged communities today.
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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by jqm on Monday April 18, 2016 @04:17PM (#11522864)
I doubt it.

Seriously... this whole "you are a white man so you share blame for anything a white man ever did" is absolutely stupid.

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Re:The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe (2005) by pink_dinner on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:31PM (#11521644)
How so? These things happened a long time ago. At some point, we need to stop blaming all of their woes on decades or century old treatment.

Most immigrants were used as essentially slave labor at some point. The Chinese, for instance, were used to build the railroads in the US. The Italians and Irish were also treated poorly for decades.

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