re: Consider This: Blacks Were ‘Dumped Out’ into Society With No Way To Feasibly Get Ahead

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I heard someone use this analogy in an argument recently and it really made sense to me:

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It's good that this is an anonymous board.

Publicly admitting you're not bright is unbecoming.

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Imagine taking a class/race/group of people, not teaching them even the basics like how to read or exist in a free capitalistic society, and dump them out of a bucket into society and say ‘ok,

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Hmm. Can I think of any other groups who arrived in America that fit this bill and yet, did better?

Why yes, yes I can.

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That’s what we did with blacks when they were freed. It’s easy to look past this, but we cannot imagine the effect this has even on generations today.

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I can imagine it's effect.

I can also imagine the effect of liberal policies making permanent what could have been more temporary.

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into society with no way to feasibly get ahead.

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The blacks that HAVE succeeded stand in stark rebuttal of your assertion.

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I realized this is part of why I have compassion for injustice that unfortunately too many people lack today.

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Liberals love to tell themselves they have more compassion than everyone else.

Yet. In practice, this is virtually never borne out.