(June 12, 2015 at 2:55 pm)Dystopia Wrote: For purposes like this (An institution fighting for civil rights) it's obvious people have to be black - I don't see why it should be any different.
Because no white person has ever fought for the civil rights of non-white people. </sarcasm>
In all serious though, your statement is absurd to the highest degree. Firstly, because civil rights apply to everyone, and secondly, because to say only black people can be part of an institution fighting for black people's civil rights would be contrary to the entire purpose of fighting for those civil rights.
Gaining equal rights doesn't mean the tables turn, and the discriminator becomes the discriminated. It means the discrimination is no longer allowed on either side.
It shouldn't have to be said, but the people who voted to ban slavery in the US were white. Fighting for the rights of black people was literally a white person thing at one time (not to minimize the efforts of freed slaves and other black civil rights activists at the time).
