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Originally Posted by wax

nope.
totaly disagree.
the past...... as in the past before you were born and even in this case, before your parents were born should have no effect on your actions. its not passed down in your blood.
america has a very different story to the uk on this kind of topic, so just remember we are talking about london here. these kids grandads were not slaves.
i think you are so completely wrong to even begin to pull that crap about the kind of kids i went to school with. there were white, black, brown, yellow and fucking purple bastards in my school. the black kids were no worse than the others but they were certianly as bad. im glad you wernet a teacher there or yd be excusing kids with a certian colour skin and punishing the rest. you would if you acted moraly on the beliefs you are displaying here. and that is plain fucking racism.

man you clearly have no understanding of human psychology.

please take a course in family system theory and learn about the transgenerational nature of dysfunction, and how family dysfunctions get projected into society as a whole.

i will say i haven't even read your whole post, but i can tell you that your initial assumptions are patently wrong when you say "the past is the past".

i know you may not have the time to get yourself schooled in this, but maybe you'll find time to read a short primer before you regale us with your authoritative views

http://www.familysystemstheory.com/ourhistory.html

really, i'm not joking, read that.... it doesn't offer "excuses", it only explains how personal problems (rape, beatings, torture, abuse) have a way to live on