As some of will have heard there has been a raging debate/controversy/scandal at the Evergreen University. For those that haven't heard about it checkout some of these links:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2017/06/01/threats-shut-down-college-embroiled-in-racial-dispute/?utm_term=.74bc9fa671e0
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/06/02/evergreen-state-college-excuses-student-protesters-from-homework.html
The short and fast story is there is a dispute about some students wanting some faculty members fired and general disagreements over white people's place on the campus. A non-white day at the university caused a major furore when some white people remained on campus.
The scene above was taken from this day.
Well I say the students should protest. They should protest at the university president for allowing the loudest students to take over the university. They should protest at the bigots trying to bring back segregation as retribution for hardships their ancestors suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of todays Americans ancestors back in slave times.
The students have every right to protest but the only justifiable protest is against what is going on at the moment.
No one can dispute that the history of blacks in America is at best a distressing one and at worst and hideous example of how disgustingly humans will treat other humans when they have power over them. But it is at the determent of America not to acknowledge it is almost the only country in the world that actively tries to apologies for it's history with slavery. It is also unfair to discuss the problem and not acknowledge how many people loathed the system at the time. Therefore it is also unfair to suggest everyone protesting at this university was either the descendant of a slave or a slave owner.
Try this shit in any other country, hey! Do you see China apologising for slaving people? Have you ever heard anything from Turkey that even comes close to suggesting their koran endorsed slave trade during the Ottoman empire was wrong? Have you ever heard any African countries denounce their history with slavery? Even some aborigine tribes in Australia went to war with the British colonisers over being told by the Brits that they had to end their own versions of slavery.
My point is that every society had slavery in it and the only true measure of a society today is it's ability to denounce it but also to see it in it's context and not expect people who weren't alive at the time to pay the price for it. These people may have some argument if they were in some shithole downtown part of a city and had no prospects but they're in a university. They are not oppressed.