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So, let's see what happened to the black community
2013 Aug 2, 6:32am 3,698 views 22 comments
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2013 Aug 2, 4:22pm
Right, Although, uncompensated, forced labor certainly gave the Caucasians a leg up, and gave them a leg down. It was the century + after that that gets left out of these discussions. There has not been a period of accommodation, but there has been a prolonged period of thuggery on the part of the white power structure.
Thank you! I was just thinking my night needed more horseshit to wade through.
The "war on drugs" is the biggest current problem,
The effects of slavery and Jim Crow have been diluted by history, but the many consequences of incarcerating black males for drug "crimes" include disenfranchisement, gang violence, kids growing up without their fathers, HIV, and distortions in local economies: it's tough to persuade a 12yo to study when the richest people he sees are drug dealers and basketball players.
Thank the police and justice system trying very hard to get the drug dealers off the street so the black community can turn the corner and have a better life.
Trying to promote " the end to the War on Drugs" and allowing drug dealers to corrupt our streets and neighborhood isnt helping anyone.
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Aside from the intolerable uncompensated work for centuries, the murder, destruction of families and so on that resulted from slavery, what did the Europeans do to make up for their atrocities?
Starting after emancipation, they created the Convict Lease programs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convict_lease
But, surely, after the slaves were freed, and the convict lease program was underway, at least they could vote.
Unless you count the hurdles, like literacy tests and poll taxes, or lynching to prevent them from exercising their franchise.
Well, you say, at least they were free (aside from the economic, political or any conventional sense)! Free at least to marry whoever they wanted! Unless that person was white (until 1967)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
Oh! Dang...I almost forgot about Jim Crow! And our prison industrial complex! And the destruction of the Manufacturing sector, Unions, the Post Office and other methods that the black community used to use to lift themselves up.
It would be a lot easier to help themselves if the goddamned oppressors would take their boots off the black man's neck, I'd say.
Conversely, what positives have been done? Have they worked?
Apparently I've been asleep while all of the rapprochement has occurred? We can end affirmative action now, end the CRA, the VRA and make college super expensive. We can kill grants, destroy homeownership, accelerate African-American unemployment, imprison them disproportionately, and throughout, keep the spoils of their labor.
I mean, what's wrong with THEM?