BQ78 said:

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So how far do we have to get away in time from Jim Crow to finally say all is well?

Remember racism was dead when we elected a "Black" President only to see it rear its ugly head as a divisive issue and it is getting even worse under the new president. How far do we have to get away before the issue is no longer inequality and racism?

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Presley OBannons Sword said:

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BQ78 said:

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So how far do we have to get away in time from Jim Crow to finally say all is well?

Remember racism was dead when we elected a "Black" President only to see it rear its ugly head as a divisive issue and it is getting even worse under the new president. How far do we have to get away before the issue is no longer inequality and racism?

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The answer is it will never be declared that all is well.

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BQ78 said:

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Watson:

So do you think the problems facing poor blacks today are still more about racist attitudes of elderly whites, rather than the victimhood certain political leaders sell to them?

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BQ78 said:

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So how far do we have to get away in time from Jim Crow to finally say all is well?

Remember racism was dead when we elected a "Black" President only to see it rear its ugly head as a divisive issue and it is getting even worse under the new president. How far do we have to get away before the issue is no longer inequality and racism?

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BQ78 said:

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So the system is so loaded against black Americans that even 50 years of affirmative action can't offset it? Does AA even help, as in many ways the system seems to be holding them back more than 20 years ago? Is this white system the one that is causing young black men to eschew education or is it being perpetrated on themselves by their fellows? Why aren't the Chinese equally traumatized as an ethnicity?

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BQ78 said:

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Watson and Red Ags:

I appreciate much of what you say but at the same time I still question why some ethnic groups have overcome prejudice and racial injustice and others have more difficulty with it. No doubt the African race received a major kick in the teeth being dragged here in chains but I would say the Irish did not want to come here either and it was forced upon them, yet within 100 years they were completely assimilated. Granted they had white skin and would find it easier. But come on guys we need to up AA and put it in place for 300 more years before it will work?!?

I also resent that I am personally considered part of the problem by today's SJWs, when I absolutely am not.

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BQ78 said:

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I also resent that I am personally considered part of the problem by today's SJWs, when I absolutely am not.

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Aggies Revenge said:

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BQ78 said:

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Watson and Red Ags:

I appreciate much of what you say but at the same time I still question why some ethnic groups have overcome prejudice and racial injustice and others have more difficulty with it. No doubt the African race received a major kick in the teeth being dragged here in chains but I would say the Irish did not want to come here either and it was forced upon them, yet within 100 years they were completely assimilated. Granted they had white skin and would find it easier. But come on guys we need to up AA and put it in place for 300 more years before it will work?!?

I also resent that I am personally considered part of the problem by today's SJWs, when I absolutely am not.

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I would say for starters, the Irish did not have a whole series of legal codes passed to prevent them from advancing or disenfranchising them. Segregation and Jim Crow picked up where slavery left off and continued until the 1950s. Other than social factors that were overcame within a generation or two, the Irish encountered no such legal restrictions.

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BQ78 said:

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Watson and Red Ags:

I appreciate much of what you say but at the same time I still question why some ethnic groups have overcome prejudice and racial injustice and others have more difficulty with it. No doubt the African race received a major kick in the teeth being dragged here in chains but I would say the Irish did not want to come here either and it was forced upon them, yet within 100 years they were completely assimilated. Granted they had white skin and would find it easier. But come on guys we need to up AA and put it in place for 300 more years before it will work?!?

I also resent that I am personally considered part of the problem by today's SJWs, when I absolutely am not.

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BQ78 said:

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So the system is so loaded against black Americans that even 50 years of affirmative action can't offset it? Does AA even help, as in many ways the system seems to be holding them back more than 20 years ago? Is this white system the one that is causing young black men to eschew education or is it being perpetrated on themselves by their fellows? Why aren't the Chinese equally traumatized as an ethnicity?

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JJMt said:

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Watson (f/k/a Sapper) raises excellent points. My heart truly goes out to blacks who tried to excel and succeed in America's past. I once worked with a black Army officer who's granddad was wealthy, owning a chain of funeral homes in Mississippi. However, he did not keep any of his money in the local bank, but instead distributed his money at over 50 banks throughout the south. The reason? He did not want the white folks to know that he had money, because if they did, they'd take it from him. The rule of law simply did not apply to blacks in many places in the U.S., especially in the south.

However, something I don't understand is why do blacks fit into the same socio-economic patterns almost everywhere you find them in the world? In almost any country where there is a multi-ethnic population that includes blacks, blacks fill the very lowest tier, and their cultural characteristics are identical to those exhibited in the U.S. In those other countries, the plight of the black population cannot be explained by Jim Crow laws, discrimination ingrained into the legal system, and sometimes not even by slavery.

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