The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #92446 Message #1768168
Posted By: Azizi
24-Jun-06 - 02:06 PM
Thread Name: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
Subject: RE: BS: Apologies over slave trade?
When I was in college many years ago, I took a course on African American history. That course's professor was a Jewish woman who as a baby had survived a German concentration camp. During that semester's classes when she presented information from her curriculum, she would invariably interject that Jewish people had it worse than Black people.
I disliked those 'which oppressed people had it worse' exchanges then. And I dislike them now.
Do these exchanges add anything meaningful to these types of discussions? Or do comparing "apples & oranges" get folks bickering with each other while oppression keeps on occuring?