I have to admit that the phrase that came to mind when I first heard of D'Souza was "house nigger".
(Yeah, I'm white, but I can still recognize the behavior, I don't like it, and I don't in the last like it that white people created the situation that created the breed.)
As a survivor of suck, I can understand looking back on a sucky history and deciding that I wouldn't want to trade my life (I think you have to have been there to get that feeling at all). But that's deciding that for my life. I can't imagine looking back on a couple centuries of oppression of my whole people and saying (considering my own not-too-bad current situation) that it was all for the best.
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(Yeah, I'm white, but I can still recognize the behavior, I don't like it, and I don't in the last like it that white people created the situation that created the breed.)
As a survivor of suck, I can understand looking back on a sucky history and deciding that I wouldn't want to trade my life (I think you have to have been there to get that feeling at all). But that's deciding that for my life. I can't imagine looking back on a couple centuries of oppression of my whole people and saying (considering my own not-too-bad current situation) that it was all for the best.