The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #88315   Message #1658390
Posted By: Little Hawk
31-Jan-06 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestinian Negotiation
Subject: RE: BS: Palestinian Negotiation
I fairly much think that once you're born, you "belong" where you're born. Where the hell else would you belong, if not there?

Accordingly, having been born in Canada, I do not use the expression "we did such and such to the Indians(Native Americans)" because I didn't do it.

I believe in reincarnation. You don't know what I was back then. I might just as well have been an Indian, a black African, or a Japanese. You don't know. So don't blame me for something that people with the same skin color as me did long before I was born.

That's just plain ridiculous, in my opinion.

Neither do I feel guilty for whatever apparent advantages I may have gained in this present life by coincidentally being born into a white community in Canada at this particular time. One is not guilty merely by association. One is not guilty for being born into a relatively fortunate circumstance. One is guilty IF one commits harmful acts against others.