re: Apologies: Yet another Ferguson thread.

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And if that's so, it's because no other ethnic group has gone through what they've gone through over 400 years. The norm for them for 90% of that period was the systemic and institutional devaluing and violation of their bodies and rights. It's insane to expect 360 years of state violence and mistreatment to have no cultural echoes whatsoever.

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Now that is just some stupid bullshite right there.

According to your math, will we have to wait 4000 years for the 90% criteria to work in the other direction??

Slavery was bad - it is a condition that has existed throughout human existence. Slavery is not genetic however, so the awfulness does not redound to subsequent generations and is in no way an excuse for the current violence involved in urban racially differentiated riots.

These acts are 100% a result of modern political experiments. Nothing about the conditions of someone's ancestors from 150 years ago has any influence on modern violence.

The generational aspect of these conditions is the result of modern political manipulation. The only tie to slavery is because of a political calculation that such an obvious travesty of human dignity can be exploited within the context of this modern condition of an uneducated, poverty-stricken, dysfunctional culture that has been insulated from the normal consequences of that dysfunction.