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Originally posted by Gangsta4alife
stop being facetious it's insulting you know exactly what he meant. The fact you didn't dispel the truthful statement that so called rednecks haven't face social/institutional oppression and racism on the same level as blacks. Just proved his point entirely
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I'm not trying to stick up for rednecks, but they are probably as close to being as downtrodden a group of people as the average black person (of course, I'm not saying that they are anywhere near equal in oppression). Rednecks = poor, illiterate, and pretty much the bottom of the barrel in terms of society throughout U.S. history. While they obviously didn't have to go through racism, social/institutional oppression and stereotypes abounds all the same.
And I don't see any satisfactory conclusion that can be reached mutually from an argument where one side is continuously using events from hundreds of years ago to base an argument. The other side was not alive then and will never feel personally responsible for things their ancestors may or may not have done. That's not just my opinion, but it's pretty much a natural thought process. I think, however, it is fair and necessary to point out ongoing inequalities and oppression/racism.
I just hate when the history books get dredged out because there is nothing this current generation says, on both sides, that can base the majority of its argument on 19th century (and beyond) events/tragedies. It adds nothing, imo