That Gay Thread

[Rev. Rye]

Using Black Wall Street as an example of the good stuff black people can do if they're left the Hell alone is frankly absurd. While, yes, Black Wall Street was prosperous in its day (there's a reason Booker T. Washington gave Greenwood District that name), without dismantling the White Supremacist Power Structure, it was doomed to eventually fail. Not because there's some inherent flaw in black people that made it fuck up, but because the racist white people who lived there were pissed off enough by its success that they eventually found the first incident they could use as a pretext to burn the whole place down, leave 10,000 black people homeless in the aftermath of what is likely the biggest incident of racial violence, and leave its success forgotten for almost a century.

So your idea is to live among those same people and expect better treatment? Black people fought back and were giving the white supremacists that work until they brought out plans and began to bomb them from the air.

The point is, the black folk weren't hampered by racist policies because they had their own community. No amount of legislation is going to stop someone from breaking into your house and killing you if that's what they wanted to do.

That is ultimately what MLK's protests were trying to accomplish, because it's probably likely to give better results in the long run. And, if nothing else, the (admittedly nowhere near ideal) progress made in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s may have something to do with why race riots today tend to take the form of black people getting pissed off that one of their own was killed and not white people looking for an excuse to kill black people.