Question, who here is actually black? I'd like to hear your point of views. Also, not necessarily African American, I mean dark lol. We all kind of get lumped together anyways.
Well i'm black. And my first reaction was holy shit. This guy is a POS for even thinking that. But then I decided to look into that time period a bit more, to understand how one could come to that kind of "kill-em all" mindset. In Northern Ireland, the folks there grew up and were raised basically in a constant state of "war", everyone was on edge constantly, small skirmishes resulted in stabbings and shootings, you were raised to dish out revenge and get "whoever wronged you". Couple that with the obvious race issues and I understand why, in the 70s or 80s in Northern Ireland a young dude who's friend/gf was raped by a black man would go out looking for a "black man" to get revenge on. It's how they were raised to do things and how they DID do things, ask any of the 3500 people killed during that time, or the numerous maimed and left scarred for life.
I choose to believe he no longer harbors such views, he did say he was ashamed after all. And for that, I can move on from it, but it DID offer a fucked up viewpoint at another culture during a really fucked up time.
So to sum it up: It's fucked up he would think that way, but with all the environmental factors and everything else going on, I can understand it and I'm glad he moved past it.
And I have experience with such things. My father watched his brother get beat to death during the civil rights movement in America. He told me stories of how him and his cousins DID INDEED go looking for revenge, not just on those cops, but any white dude who looked at them wrong/said something crazy to them. Revenge does shit to people. He no longer harbors that and told me point blank it was dumb, and ignorant of him to think such things, but in the moment, at that time in history it was what you thought. you can't separate someone's environment from their actions. And no, my father is not racist, and has no issues with white people now.