My feeling on the issue of history is thus - all history is important so that we do not make the same mistakes again. Slavery of PoC is no more or less important than what happened to the Irish, and bearing in mind, the times the Irish were going through this stuff, they were considered 'less than'. I'm guessing no PoC would have the nerve to say that the Holocaust isn't important history, yet most Jewish people are considered to be white.
What is important in history is how the people were treated then, not now, which is why using history to prop up an -ism argument is flawed - on either side. When PoC talk about discrimination, I'm more concerned with the here and now, since I cannot change what happened in the past, only how things are now.
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What is important in history is how the people were treated then, not now, which is why using history to prop up an -ism argument is flawed - on either side. When PoC talk about discrimination, I'm more concerned with the here and now, since I cannot change what happened in the past, only how things are now.