That doesn’t hold water because what they did was hundreds of years ago, and all (most?) of the people alive today have not had state sponsored racism in their lives ever. They may run across some individual racism, but currently the race card is the cause celebre of anyone concerning just about anything. People, and governments change and the US has changed regarding the past. Hate all you want, but until race isn’t as divisive as it is, we will continue down this path. Labels are currently used to promote that diversity, and do nothing to bring us together.
I do not believe it is big a problem as the left makes it. The making of it it the actual issue is divisive and likely does not further whatever the cause is.
Current events, police brutality, a very great majority agrees with you that it happens, they disagree what the actual causes are.
Are black people over-represented in certain categories that lend themselves to such issues? I’d say yes.
What is the response to such questions? Racism.
And black people of any descent can and are, most assuredly, racist against white, purple, black, yellow, and orange people. Being black or of African descent doesn’t insulate them from that fact.
I still haven’t heard the why you think black people can’t be racist to white people in the US. You gave a justification for it . An excuse so to speak.
It did, but I was only addressing the issues as it stands in the US.
I am not nearly knowledgeable enough to be able to talk intelligently about South Africa and the problems they face.
You made your point very poorly, when you claimed it was hundred of years.
And there are tons of people that are alive today that were alive in the 60’s. They are only in their 70’s now, so you were mistaken there as well.
And racism did not end with the signing of the Civil Rights Act. Just look at the people that have been prosecuted under the Civil Rights Act. People are racist enough that they will risk breaking the law in order to be racist.
Your attempts at whitewashing history and denying the existence of contemporary racism are failing pretty badly here.
When do you think was the last time that a black person was discriminated against due to the color of their skin? If your answer is not “Within the last 15 seconds” then you are not paying attention.
Slavery was hundreds of years my man, 70 years old … and they had to live through Jim Crow when they were 2? Or is it more likely that anyone that lived through (and was directly adversely affected) is dead.
Even if we restrict the discussion to the United States and put aside the amount of years, do you feel racism ended in America in 1865 with the abolition of slavery?
It’s impossible to put a number on the time since the effects of slavery ended, because they haven’t ended yet. Slavery itself is gone, but some of the effects are still with us. Why do you think it is that blacks are still overall much poorer than whites?
At first I assumed he was meaning something like this video, but reading more it seems like he is more saying that racism is simply prejudice based on skin colour rather than it being predicated on any societal power structures.
You are right, a few are probably alive still and they could have been 20 or so years old
75.0 years
Today, Asian Americans live the longest (86.3 years), followed by Latinos (81.9 years), whites (78.6 years), Native Americans (77.4 years), and African Americans (75.0 years). Where people live, combined with race and income, play a huge role in whether they may die young.
Guess what is in the news right now? White supremacist gangs in the LA sheriff’s department. The “Executioners” are making the headlines today. Twenty years ago it was the Lynwood Vikings. Two years ago it was in Compton.
Those are all from the same police department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
And you still haven’t acknowledged the current official policies that somehow have a huge racial impact: