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Originally Posted by loramin
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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.
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not once have I said that there was harm done in the past, in fact I agreed that there was, I just dont believe that you ranting about being morally superior for acknowledging that
WILL HAVE ANY EFFECT AT ALL
however addressing the cultural inadequacies of those groups
TODAY might, however
YOU would say that is racist.
also you dismissing the civil rights movement and the real progress it has made, is an insult to the very cause you profess to be superior to others over, you are more of a burden to the cause than someone who cares not one bit about minority struggles.