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Originally Posted by mickmoranis
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So you can make the connection between hundreds of years of changes in civil rights and political evolution and even a civil war, to the way people are treated, but you cannot, for the life of you, admit that perhaps your actions might also be contributing to the struggle you are so desperate to fix?
You cannot even for a second out of fear of becoming a racist yourself, even discuss that perhaps culturally blacks are suffering because of their own actions and that they are infact culturally more inclined to commit crimes in disproportionatly larger numbers?
The difference between me and you is I am willing to admit that there are a multitude of reasons as to why black people are struggling in modern society, you however believe that it was only the actions of people in the past, that you are morally superior, and that anything else is insane.
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Dude, it's not "hundreds of years". The civil war ended in 1865: that's less than 200 years ago. Jim Crow laws (eg. "blacks totally have equal voting rights ... they just have to pass this insanely hard literacy test that we don't give to whites if they want to vote ... it's
totally equal") didn't end until the civil rights movement,
which started in the 1950s.
There are people still alive in America today (a lot) who remember what the Jim Crow south was like. For instance, my high school English teacher told me a story about being pregnant with her first kid and going to a black hospital in the south, only to be told that she had to go to a white hospital because that's how things are done here. This is not ancient history.
To think that the children of people who were quite literally second class citizens in their own lifetime, should not be impacted by their parent's experiences (and their parent's, and their parent's ...) is insane.