I am a 24 year old Black man that’s been on the net since I was 12. Never in my life have I ever witness a White man use as much logic and reasoning as you. A truly smart White person is a very sparse occurrence on the net. It’s a damn shame that when I run into a smart man that isn’t Black I have to drop everything I’m doing and say hello to him, lol. These White kids think they are the greatest thing on earth but they are so ignorant(the true definition of the word, no malice)to the facts. All they know is White lies and propaganda and they truly believe it, it’s actually scary. You should teach these lost people, they even cry racism, they don’t know what racism is in the slightest, im a black man from Alabama, only one generation removed from segregation count it my mothers age ago, I experience true prejudice everyday one the net and in person, will stop rant now

Your ‘series of foot races’ analogy, perfecto.

Thanks for the read.

The distinctive difference in American slavery is that it introduced the notion of inferiority or superiority based on the color of ones’ skin. In other words, an element that was never considered before in other societies to justify bondage: racism.

Even so, the true grievance are the vestiges after slavery’s demise. In essence, despite the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation, the United States reverted to a new system of enslavement. Measures were taken to remedy the errors of slavery with the passage of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. However, when the United States instituted policies such as Black Codes and later Jim Crow laws; the government essentially broke the promise it made to its newly freed citizens for equal protection under the law.

However, Black Codes were soon found unconstitutional but Jim Crow soon took its place and was only brought to an end in 1964, nearly a century after the passing of the 13th Amendment. In doing so, the United States essentially reinforced the notion that a Black man had no rights a White man was bound to respect.

Moreover, American courts offered no protection for people of African descent. This soon led to the rise of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and their practices of terrorizing Black citizens by murdering whole families alive, burning successful black businesses and threatening black people with death if deeds to their homes and land weren’t issued to white neighbors by sundown.
Black people were denied equal opportunity to compete for the opportunities that were available to fellow White citizens for nearly a century after the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation – 1965.

It’s amazing that people can quote Dr. MLK, Jr. at the drop of a hat. However, they don’t realize WHAT he was truly fighting for. African American’s have fought in every war this nation has had. The first casualty in the American revolution was Crispus Attucks, a black man.

Black soldiers returning from WWII were murdered in uniform for attempting to vote. Yes, the history is sordid, but it doesn’t help to blame black people for not “getting over slavery” when so much injury actually occurred during their time as citizens.