RE: Black People - Stop Blaming Racism, Take Responsibility
April 28, 2015 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2015 at 11:53 am by Pizza.)
I have a few things to say and then I'm out, if no one has anything informative to actually add.
"Again, excuses. I'd just be going over what I've already said here. Slavery was a looong time ago."
It has not been that long here in the U.S.; in fact, if you add the successful white terrorist during reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws("segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States"), and sharecropping an update version of slavery had been alive and kicking in America up until 1960s or 70s. So, the aftermath of that long period of oppression isn't going away magically. We're still trying to pick up the pieces in this country.
"Civil rights have been won."
Some battles have been won. This doesn't mean racism is over.
"When they're born in the ghetto, it's not about slavery. It's not about racism. It's about economics." Where do you think the ghettos in America came from? The sky? Doubling down on this point is absurd when you know nothing of American racial history. Just concede the point. We've already conceded people need to take ownership of their bad choices. Why can't you concede a point?
"Again, excuses. I'd just be going over what I've already said here. Slavery was a looong time ago."
It has not been that long here in the U.S.; in fact, if you add the successful white terrorist during reconstruction era, Jim Crow laws("segregation state and local laws enacted after the Reconstruction period in Southern United States"), and sharecropping an update version of slavery had been alive and kicking in America up until 1960s or 70s. So, the aftermath of that long period of oppression isn't going away magically. We're still trying to pick up the pieces in this country.
"Civil rights have been won."
Some battles have been won. This doesn't mean racism is over.
"When they're born in the ghetto, it's not about slavery. It's not about racism. It's about economics." Where do you think the ghettos in America came from? The sky? Doubling down on this point is absurd when you know nothing of American racial history. Just concede the point. We've already conceded people need to take ownership of their bad choices. Why can't you concede a point?
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