You’re absolutely right about the vast majority of American history. But that’s not what the BLM types say. They say it’s still that way now. Which means they are not only way off about what is happening right now, meaning they are agitating for a solution to a problem that has already been solved and slandering the current white population of the country, they are failing to note that this means white Americans are actually showing much more restraint than any other hegemonic group throughout history that I can think of.
Imagine writing a science fiction story in which Group A had subjugated and brutalized Group B for centuries. Then Group A got a crisis of conscience (or enough of them did) and things changed drastically. Suddenly things flipped and Group B started killing members of Group A at a much higher rate than vice versa. But the vocal members of Group B insisted it was still the other way ‘round, and that in fact things were as bad or worse than they had been before civil rights. What would this hypothetical Group A do, in this science fiction story? I would think they would say “fuck this” and revive the KKK terrorism of the 1870s and 1920s. (Oops, I left my sci-fi metaphor behind there, but you get my point.)
Let me be VERY clear that I do not think that response would be the right thing to do. And I’m still a solid Democrat, who considers Obama the greatest U.S. president, Grant second, and LBJ third. But while I don’t expect people to be grateful for the human rights due to them, I would like to see them not lie and slander.
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