You clearly misread something in my post, as I never made made the claim you're disputing. The point I was making was that no one race has sole claim to having suffered abuse or had heir culture stripped from them in their history, and in some cases the abuses are even more recent. No one alive today was held as a slave, but my friend Terry was tortured in an internment camp. He was not permitted clothing or toilet facilities. He was routinely beaten. He watched his best friend starve to death. He had both feet broken -- more than once-- during "forced washes" where he was dropped into scalding water and had deck scrubs used on him. He was forced to endure the use of pliers for "internal searches." All because the street on which he was born gave him a certain cultural identity. Now, you can say that all that is fine because he wasn't a slave. I believe such treatment of human beings to be an atrocity, regardless of skin color, ethnicity or circumstances. Rather than go the divisive route of saying only certain kinds of suffering matter, or only the suffering endured by this kind of people and not by that kind of people is relevant, I would suggest that we take a unified stand against such practices. Working together for the common goal of compassion for all will have a better outcome in the long run than an adversarial game of, "My people suffered more, historically, than yours did."