It’s not about blame, it’s about pointing out what hypocrites the Euros are when they start sneering about American slavery, racism and discriminatory practices.

Pots and kettles sort of thing, only the Euro pot is a lot blacker than the American kettle, if you want to be honest about it.

I mention the Arab slave trade at in comment 125. As you say,it was much harsher than anything the Americans or the British did.

As your enlightened presidents said:

“Indians…were wolves and beasts who deserved nothing from the whites but ‘total ruin’ – George Washington

[The US government is obliged]…to pursue [Indians] to extermination, or drive them to new seats beyond our reach” – Thomas Jefferson

“…to root out from their ‘dens’ and kill Indian women and their ‘whelps’” – Andrew Jackson

I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth. The most vicious cowboy has more moral principle than the average Indian. – Theodire Roosevelt

Not that we were any better in Australia of course.

Without doubt Rice is highly focused and intelligent. However, history is likely to find that she did little more than punt on the important issues in her remit – China, Russia, Iran, Korea, Europe, South America.

She often seemed to practice diplomacy by the numbers, an acolyte of outdated academic theories rather than real world concerns, and lost the struggle to stay above the institutional group-think at Foggy Bottom.

LOL. Yeah. Mary’s quite the debater all right: Tell absurd lie, repeat, repeat, repeat. Right out of the Joey Goebbels debators handbook.

“They [Belgians] don’t like folks from Zaire/Congo”

Obviously. Just a few years back, the Belgians murdered millions of Congolese and turned the Congo Free State into a vast slave labor camp, per usual Euro imperialist practice…

http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocong.htm

The Belgians weren’t doing that kind of stuff because they loved the Congolese.

Euros love to talk about the few thousand lynchings that took place in America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They aren’t quite so vocal about their own use of slave labor and the full blown genocide they were engaging in in Africa at the same time those lynchings were taking place.

Nasty boys, those Euros. A lot nastier than Americans.

That remark probably explains why people call you idiotic and a redneck. Not all Americans, just you.

a pakistani or indian in the uk,

We have had an ethnic Jew, albeit a convert, and of course a woman. Hell would freeze over before there’s a woman president of the US.

It’s just sickening. Being called racist, idiotic, redneck, brainwashed, war monger, etc when these are all wrong. Even my (Belgian) family believes this. I either don’t say anything to not screw up a nice 1-week vacation visiting them or I try to nicely defend myself. Which of course is pretty hard in a language I speak only about 5 days/year if I’m lucky.

Sometimes I think it’d be good if they had a bad terrorist attack. Maybe that would teach them. I feel awful for thinking this, but then I realize it wouldn’t change anything. We’ve seen how the Spaniards & the British react: give in. And, they’d probably blame us anyway. Nothing’s their fault after all.

Mr Surls, at the time of the Irish Potato famine I also understand that a lot of working class Brits were also dying of hunger, I suppose that justifies me bombing a rememberence pararde for that?

And I can never have any respect for anyone using words like bitchslapped and its negativity towards the fairer sex, do you really believe in equality?