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My parents were in high school while segregation still existed. There's no question they got opportunities many black americans the same age did not, which abso
by jasonwatkinspdx 6y ago
My parents were in high school while segregation still existed. There's no question they got opportunities many black americans the same age did not, which absolutely had a direct and significant impact on my life.
Redlining remained legal into the 70s, and was continued with the thinnest of fig leafs concealing it into the 90s. Covert discrimination in loan and rental applications continues to this day.
Many studies repeated even today continue to confirm that racial discrimination in job applications remains a very real thing.
Wealth is strongly generational, and we aren't even 1 generation away from dramatic and legalized inequalities.
Your last paragraph is the most telling. Were black and native americans somehow not adults before today? Pools of funds? Have you ever driven through a reservation that wasn't a casino? The many underinvested urban areas that remain from the era of white flight and redlining?
We see you and what you are thinking here clearly. The world is moving on from such bigotry, as should you.
- controversy 6y agoYou called me a bigot. I can’t respond. I’m stuck. Nowhere to go. Native Americans can invest in themselves. When they take the patrimony of the Federal government, they don’t. https://youtu.be/pQ4lnDy2xnQ https://youtu.be/pQ4lnDy2xnQ The same is true of the blacks. Before LBJ decimated them, they were on their way to be independent. They were starting to make money equal to whites. They were establishing their own cities with arts like Harlem. Then the Democrats came in offering free government money. The women just had to kick out their men to get it. They should also pursue abortions since that was empowering. Now blacks have stayed at 13% of the population for decades. They are impoverished. They believe they are victims. But I a person that won’t vote Democrat because of this and continuing evil. I am the bigot. Ok. I’ll take that title. I am a bigot for knowing that blacks can govern their own destiny without the white man from the Federal government. The same for natives.
- jasonwatkinspdx 6y agoWow. At least you're saying the quiet parts loud and clear now.
- controversy 6y agoYou should read my profile. Thank you.
- dang 6y agoSingle purpose accounts aren't ok on HN, and obviously not when the purpose is ideological battle, so we've banned this one. Please don't create accounts to break the site guidelines with. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- controversy 6y agoOh dang!
- controversia 6y agoWhat if it wasn't a single purpose account? What if it was an account that partakes in conversations both technical and political? What if HN has become more and more political and threatening to the health of the nation and the commentator was simply saying thing that are sane?
- ryneandal 6y agoDo you live near any of the Indian reservations mentioned in your video? I was born in SD and adopted to white parents. I'm a member of the Lakota Sioux Nation. I'm intimately aware of the hardships facing Native American people and have seen both sides of it. Native American children were effectively kidnapped from their families well into the 1970s. To imply the suffering, segregation, and racism ceased 160 years ago shows how entirely misinformed the general populace is. Wounded Knee was only 110 years ago. The implication that their poverty is self-inflicted is a massive exercise in reductionism, and completely neglects to mention the hardships that manifest in these areas exclusively due to the inaccuracies you're spouting.