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Originally posted by KyIe
Hun, if the country would come together regardless of race and unite as AMERICANS there would be some improvement. If ya'll seriously think self segregation and division is going to help minorities in this country then you're just exacerbating every problem you complain about.
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So why has progress come in WAVES?
Was the US not "united" after the Revolutionary War, after which blacks continued to be slaves? How about the Civil War, after which blacks could not vote and were lynched? Or after the World Wars, after which Jim Crow persisted, institutional discrimination created ghettos, and the War on Drugs birthed mass incarceration? Or after 9/11, after which black men were lawfully profiled and are being actively gunned down for breathing while black?
When does your version of 'unity' include prosperity for black folks. Nah man. IT's still far from over. The only way to exacerbate the problem is to stay silent. Recognize that Frederick Douglass was a CRIMINAL for being an escaped slave. Recognize that Harriet Tubman was a CRIMINAL for running a massive criminal conspiracy, freeing slaves. I know we all love MLK today, but recognize that in his time, by the highest powers in the American justice system, Martin Luther King was viewed as a criminal by J. Edgar Hoover [FBI]. They signed off on the bugging of his home and wherever he was.
At no one point in history has righting racial wrongs been a clean and therapeutic process. The only segregation comes from those who wish not to see us thrive as a people.