re: Serious Question About the St Louis Outrage

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it's not like the white people on this board did anything or deserve to sit through all the media bull shite going on now.

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(due to my general historical ignorance (shared by most people, I might add in my defense), the dates below will be general and probably inaccurate)

From their perspective, what we've done is enjoy the spoils of a system that oppresses them (1750-1965) and then resisted the undoing of that system (1955-1965) and then resisted the people who purported to be helping them (1965-present)(though I believe liberals have not ultimately helped but instead thoroughly harmed the fabric of those communities).

And still the vast majority of us talk about personal responsibility and how people "should" act and continue to ignore the reality of the situation. We brought black people here, we enslaved them, we treated them as second class citizens until fairly recently. I know there is another side to that story, but we focus on what they are doing wrong and ignore what our people did wrong while not actually proposing any coherent solutions to the very real problems.
Now you get to think "what's this 'our people' stuff? I didn't do anything to anyone."
And I say you are not living in the real world and cannot be part of any solution that will actually work. You might as well just admit that you don't care what happens to the country if your solution to the racial problem is to whine about how it shouldn't exist.