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A comment on America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012). Parent comment

Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by brazzy on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:36AM (#5933576)
Your strawmen-burning and turning this into a race issue only proves you wrong.
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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by powertower on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:39AM (#5933595)
> the entire nation (USA) is built upon the bodies of the Natives who's land was stolen or coerced from them and then built by enslaved peoples stolen from Africa

The OP decided to bring race into this. And I know exactly were he is going with this. I'm just responding.

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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by brazzy on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:49AM (#5933664)
> The OP decided to bring race into this.

No, he didn't. You did.

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Re:America’s Shameful Human Rights Record (2012) by powertower on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:02PM (#5933757)
Ok. I'll admit that I got a little ahead of myself with the response.

But how can you tell me that race does not stand behind the curtains of that quoted and emphasized statement?

America was predominantly white, 90% up to 1960. If you make a statement about it being built by stolen black slaves, while not giving any credit to the other people, it becomes a race thing.

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