"Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday blamed the global economic crisis on 'white people with blue eyes' and said it was wrong that black and indigenous people should pay for white people’s mistakes."
This is a fairly ignorant accusation by the president of Brazil. Is he indigenous or did he come from Portuguese decent? All of us carry around biases about people. It might be race, but it also might be language, religion or a whole host of other reasons. So I'm not going to hold Prez Silva's ignorance against him. I know I say stupid and ignorant things sometimes.
But the thing that really bothers me about Prez Silva's statement is his lack of responsibility. Non-white people are just as much a part of the problem as white people. The current economic problem is due to a wide range of mistakes; i.e. greed. Greed has a tendency to affect whites, blacks, browns, half breeds, etc.
Since Prez Silva wants to lump me in with the term "white" I wonder if he would appreciate being called a derogatory term based on his skin color. I mean what's the difference? He calls me white, but what the heck does that mean? I come from at the very least five different nationalities. I'm not exactly a purebred.
If people do not want to take responsibility for their own predicament then I have little sympathy for them.
On a side note:
Sometimes the past has a habit of coming back and biting us.
Since the late 1400s the white man has been treating other races like crap. Things started to change with the European whites in the 1800s and then the US in the 1960s, but it wasn't soon enough apparently.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae4957e8-1a5f-11de-9f91-0000779fd2ac.html
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