The concept that the British are not our enemies but our friends and we must liberate them along with us. That is, liberate them from the prison of their own minds which makes them think they are rulers over others.

There are no villians or victims. Is just is.

As long as one of us are bound, we are all bound. None can be freed until all are freed.

We need someone like this now, here, and everywhere. A type of social bodhisattva

Usher in the age of aquarius.

I totally agree. my eyes start tearing up everytime the little girl says she looks like the black doll even though she has picked the white one as the nice one.

By that logic we’d be rescinding out claims to any national parks or preserves because we’re not “improving” them.

Of course the entire rationale behind leaving natural preserves is that mankind cannot improve upon them and any attempts to try will only mar their pristine beauty.

not sure if you were being facetious, but it seems like indians might be at more of a disadvantage in some of those countries than in the western countries you named. your argument is couched in terms of race, but there are several other factors upon which inequality can be based. for instance, you’ve named 5 islamic countries,under many of whose laws non-muslims are just not treated with the same rights as muslims. i’m glad my parents moved me to a country where i actually have a CHANCE at equal rights. not to mention, quite frankly, that as imperfect as the legal rights systems are in the western countries you named, they are based,to a great extent, on a theory of equality. even if that is not always played out, it’s better than a system that starts off with inequality or does not hold itself up to such a standard in practise.

rob, can you expand? i was discussing the israel-palestine conflict with a (jewish) colleague and his view was that israel had a legitimate claim to the land because they conquered it through war.although, he also brought up the “chosen people” argument, as well. you, however, indicate that you don’t necessarily agree israel has a legitimate claim, either. i often think about the legitimacy issue when e.g.looking at the history of the U.S., and sometimes, i really think none of us (except native americans) has a true right to be here (esp.when somebody tells me to “go back to india”).

Why couldn’t our parents who left India instead of move to some great places instead like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, or Bangladesh. For one thing there are very few white people there

You mean very few European people. All of the countries you listed (except for Bangladesh) are populated by Arabs and Scythians, who consider themselves to be “white.”

But whitey is evil. Most people here blame whitey when they really should being blaming there parents for immigrating to these god awful place like Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Australia or some of the other Western European Countries. What were they thinking when they chose to move to places where evil whitey made up the majority of the population. It sad many of us had grow up in these hellholes.

Why couldn’t our parents who left India instead of move to some great places instead like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran, Yemen, Egypt, or Bangladesh. For one thing there are very few white people there, plus those places would have welcomed us with open arms and should for any unseen reason we experience any prejudice, those countries have many things set up for us to deal with the very rare racist remark we would experience there and the governments are known for treating people from India like they are part of there own family.