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Want some interesting perspective - in 1968 Jim Crow laws were still in effect (aka separate but "equal") until they were finally made illegal. But you can be
by ck2 12y ago
Want some interesting perspective - in 1968 Jim Crow laws were still in effect (aka separate but "equal") until they were finally made illegal.
But you can be positive that just making it illegal in 1968 didn't end the practice, it most certainly went on into the 70s
That's only a couple of generations ago.
It's crazy that some people don't understand why it take so long to recover from hundreds of years of that, people of color were literally second class citizens.
- Balgair 12y agoTo be clear, you are talking about the post-civil war period to the civil rights act period as when blacks in most of the USA were second class, correct? Because, before that, blacks were not second class citizens in any way, they were property in many areas.
- ck2 12y agoRight of course. What I am trying to point out is how some naive people look around and say well I got myself a job and got myself stable without assistance so why shouldn't everyone have to do it on their own? But the thing is, if you are white in the USA, your great grandfather probably came to this country as an immigrant and lived very simply while making a little progress and making a little money. Then your grandfather took that momentum of stability and went a little further, then your father went a little further. People of color don't have that momentum unless they were very fortunate. There are exceptions of course but their great-grandfathers, while not slaves were very held down in society. Even when that weight is suddenly lifted in the 70s, it didn't magically give them generational momentum. So some teenager looks around today and says, gee what is the problem, I can do it, why does anyone of color need special preference. It's dangerous ignorance.
- happyscrappy 12y agoExcept that doesn't happen with recent immigrants who do very well, some of them Africans.
- itsybitsy 12y agoThe self-selected groups of recent immigrants are not a random sampling of their countries of origin [1]. 1. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1814529?uid=2&uid=4&sid=21106528464243 http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1814529?uid=2&uid=4&si...
- Balgair 12y agoInteresting! Great link, thank you.