The argument is not just about slavery

[gipper]

That's a most puzzling statement. Eliminating race (racism) from all kinds of decisions detrimentally affecting blacks would throw blacks right back to the 50s, when overt and brazen racism overtly guided all these decisions?

I don't believe that's true.

I didn't (mean to) say, everything would be solved the first day, but things certainly would even out over time.

Race neutral solutions cannot solve problems created by race based policies. If we eliminated race as an issue tomorrow whites would continue to gain while others lose because of the advantages whites were provided based on race. Those advantages will not be erased by eliminating race to solve the problem.

Again, there are fields blacks have been excluded from until recent years. So if jobs become available in those fields, who is going to get the jobs based on experience? Whites. Not because they are necessarily the most qualified, but because the exclusion of blacks creates a less experienced pool of black job applicants. So if you don't have to consider that exclusion, we go backwards.

Your argument is easily defeated. If whites are so racist why have Asians done so well? On average, they do better than whites. Many Asians are new to the country or first generation, yet succeed.

Asians are not doing well. And if Asians are in their first generation, they did not suffer the generational economic terrorism blacks have.

Good God you are terribly uninformed.



Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the U.S, with Asians now making up the largest share of recent immigrants. A Pew Research survey finds Asian Americans are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place a greater value on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success.

Compared with the general public, Asian Americans stand out for their success in education and career. Most also believe that the U.S. offers more opportunities and freedoms than their countries of origin. A large majority of Asian Americans believe that hard work pays off and most place a strong emphasis on higher education, career and family. In fact, a striking number of recent Asian immigrants hold college degrees. By their own accounts, many say their parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed.
Asian Americans

No, I really am not.

The 'model minority' myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen

Asian-Americans are one of the fastest growing groups in the country and will be the largest immigrant group in the U.S. by 2065, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. They are also widely described as being more educated and better off than the average American. In a recent column, The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof celebrated the hard work and strong families behind the overwhelming success of Asian-Americans. He called it “The Asian Advantage.”

The "model minority" myth presents an image of successful Asian-Americans that leaves little room for the 2 million Asian-Americans living in poverty. They include Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations like those in Ahmed’s Queens. They also include Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian communities, which tend to experience more poverty than other Asian-American groups.

"There’s a presumption that all [Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders] are rich and educated," said Josh Ishimatsu, director of research and capacity building at the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. "The people who are not don’t have much in the way of services available — they’re just not known or seen."

The federal government has been calculating the official poverty rate in the same way since the 1960s. As the country and economy have grown, experts say the methodology has not been adjusted to reflect a different standard of living for all Americans. While the Census Bureau does offer a supplemental poverty index, some experts have also developed their own ways to measure poverty.

New York is the only major city to create its own poverty standard measure, which accounts for factors like the cost of housing and whether residents receive non-cash public assistance, like tax credits for lower-income people. They found that, in New York, the Asian population had the highest poverty rate out of all groups in the city at 25.9% in 2013, though the Hispanic population was not far behind at 25.8%.

In Wisconsin and California, independent researchers have also developed their own ways to measure poverty in their states.

According to the revised poverty measure used by researchers in California, the Asian-American poverty rate was 18.4%, in contrast with the federal level of 16% for the state. That brought the Asian population’s poverty rate more in line with the black poverty rate, which under the revised measure stood at 20.8%.

The 'model minority' myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen

The racist sees racism everywhere.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

You idiot the liberals are the ones who fucked it all up with civil rights... Blacks owned way more business then they do today..

 

[Correll]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

You idiot the liberals are the ones who fucked it all up with civil rights... Blacks owned way more business then they do today..

The way that segregation helped create and maintain a black business class, is something that libs don't like to think about.

 

[Wyatt earp]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

You idiot the liberals are the ones who fucked it all up with civil rights... Blacks owned way more business then they do today..

The way that segregation helped create and maintain a black business class, is something that libs don't like to think about.

Thank you, I am glad other people here know the truth.


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[toobfreak]

How can someone talk about "facing" racism all day long when all you do is see, think and present racism to others at every turn? You've painted yourself a victim so much that you waste all your time here as if there was nothing else in your life than telling threads to people who have no say nor control in the attitudes nor trends of society. Not a single one of your threads will serve to change a thing.

You are so smart you utterly fail to realize things today are the best they've ever been in the best society on the planet. Everyone suffers injustice of one kind or other, you are no better nor worse. Things will change as nature dictates in their own time and not one minute sooner nor later and certainly not because of your rantings. Society evolves at whatever rate it is prepared to do, and if you had any brains at all, you'd realize that all your talk of "injustices" and reparations only impedes your progress rather than further it by keeping everyone around you in polarity.

Until you learn to stop thinking in polar opposites, you will find yourself forever trapped in opposition to others and their opposing you.

show up on a thread about racism who isn't even prepared to admit it exists

Racism is alive and well, and IM2 is living proof of it. And it will never die so long as people continue to hold it between themselves rather than put it into the past and move on.

And no, societies do not evolve "as nature dictates". They evolve as smart (wo)men find they should, provided they find support for such development, either in legislatures or in society as a whole. That's why public arguing about racism is crucial.

Quaint theory but no. All the discussion and legislation in the world cannot change how people really think and feel. Thanks to the black activists and race baiters out there, I see more racial tension in many today than I did in the 1960s, and all of it coming from Blacks.

You can't provide evidence of racism on my part. And I can for you. The racial tension has never left and it's because whites like you still exist.

Your saying I can't provide evidence has nothing to do with providing evidence. You have a strange disconnect between what you THINK and what is. Let's take a poll here and ask who the most racist person is. I bet you get 88% of the vote.

 

[toobfreak]

WRONG.

The only problem blacks face is you and the prison of your own mind.


View attachment 274658

Turn black and come tell me that.

So you think your whole life revolves around the degree of suntan you have.

Why are you oppressed but this man gets ahead?


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Maybe he just ain't lazy.

That brown man faces the same racism I do.

How can someone talk about "facing" racism all day long when all you do is see, think and present racism to others at every turn? You've painted yourself a victim so much that you waste all your time here as if there was nothing else in your life than telling threads to people who have no say nor control in the attitudes nor trends of society. Not a single one of your threads will serve to change a thing.

You are so smart you utterly fail to realize things today are the best they've ever been in the best society on the planet. Everyone suffers injustice of one kind or other, you are no better nor worse. Things will change as nature dictates in their own time and not one minute sooner nor later and certainly not because of your rantings. Society evolves at whatever rate it is prepared to do, and if you had any brains at all, you'd realize that all your talk of "injustices" and reparations only impedes your progress rather than further it by keeping everyone around you in polarity.

Until you learn to stop thinking in polar opposites, you will find yourself forever trapped in opposition to others and their opposing you.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.

What a terrible life you lead.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of sexism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of poverty.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of misery.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of violence and crime.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of (fill in the blanks).
Race-boy, you sure have your work cut out for you! You live in a dream world.
The world is FULL of injustice! The fact that you only care about one, discrimination towards Blacks and no one else proves once again what a white-hating racist race baiter you are. Hell, you are so damn racist I bet you can't even acknowledge discrimination towards others!

 

[IM2]

Race neutral solutions cannot solve problems created by race based policies. If we eliminated race as an issue tomorrow whites would continue to gain while others lose because of the advantages whites were provided based on race. Those advantages will not be erased by eliminating race to solve the problem.

Again, there are fields blacks have been excluded from until recent years. So if jobs become available in those fields, who is going to get the jobs based on experience? Whites. Not because they are necessarily the most qualified, but because the exclusion of blacks creates a less experienced pool of black job applicants. So if you don't have to consider that exclusion, we go backwards.

Your argument is easily defeated. If whites are so racist why have Asians done so well? On average, they do better than whites. Many Asians are new to the country or first generation, yet succeed.

Asians are not doing well. And if Asians are in their first generation, they did not suffer the generational economic terrorism blacks have.

Good God you are terribly uninformed.



Asian Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group in the U.S, with Asians now making up the largest share of recent immigrants. A Pew Research survey finds Asian Americans are more satisfied than the general public with their lives, finances and the direction of the country, and they place a greater value on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success.

Compared with the general public, Asian Americans stand out for their success in education and career. Most also believe that the U.S. offers more opportunities and freedoms than their countries of origin. A large majority of Asian Americans believe that hard work pays off and most place a strong emphasis on higher education, career and family. In fact, a striking number of recent Asian immigrants hold college degrees. By their own accounts, many say their parents put too much pressure on their children to succeed.
Asian Americans

No, I really am not.

The 'model minority' myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen

Asian-Americans are one of the fastest growing groups in the country and will be the largest immigrant group in the U.S. by 2065, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. They are also widely described as being more educated and better off than the average American. In a recent column, The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof celebrated the hard work and strong families behind the overwhelming success of Asian-Americans. He called it “The Asian Advantage.”

The "model minority" myth presents an image of successful Asian-Americans that leaves little room for the 2 million Asian-Americans living in poverty. They include Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi populations like those in Ahmed’s Queens. They also include Cambodian, Hmong and Laotian communities, which tend to experience more poverty than other Asian-American groups.

"There’s a presumption that all [Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders] are rich and educated," said Josh Ishimatsu, director of research and capacity building at the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. "The people who are not don’t have much in the way of services available — they’re just not known or seen."

The federal government has been calculating the official poverty rate in the same way since the 1960s. As the country and economy have grown, experts say the methodology has not been adjusted to reflect a different standard of living for all Americans. While the Census Bureau does offer a supplemental poverty index, some experts have also developed their own ways to measure poverty.

New York is the only major city to create its own poverty standard measure, which accounts for factors like the cost of housing and whether residents receive non-cash public assistance, like tax credits for lower-income people. They found that, in New York, the Asian population had the highest poverty rate out of all groups in the city at 25.9% in 2013, though the Hispanic population was not far behind at 25.8%.

In Wisconsin and California, independent researchers have also developed their own ways to measure poverty in their states.

According to the revised poverty measure used by researchers in California, the Asian-American poverty rate was 18.4%, in contrast with the federal level of 16% for the state. That brought the Asian population’s poverty rate more in line with the black poverty rate, which under the revised measure stood at 20.8%.

The 'model minority' myth: Why Asian-American poverty goes unseen

The racist sees racism everywhere.

Can't face the truth Gimp?

 

[Obiwan]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

I actually agree...

After the Civil War, the Democrats used the KKK and Jim Crow laws to keep blacks down for another 100 years....

Sounds like the Democrat Party owes the blacks reparations (out of their party's coffers)!!!

 

[IM2]

Turn black and come tell me that.

So you think your whole life revolves around the degree of suntan you have.

Why are you oppressed but this man gets ahead?


View attachment 274668

Maybe he just ain't lazy.

That brown man faces the same racism I do.

How can someone talk about "facing" racism all day long when all you do is see, think and present racism to others at every turn? You've painted yourself a victim so much that you waste all your time here as if there was nothing else in your life than telling threads to people who have no say nor control in the attitudes nor trends of society. Not a single one of your threads will serve to change a thing.

You are so smart you utterly fail to realize things today are the best they've ever been in the best society on the planet. Everyone suffers injustice of one kind or other, you are no better nor worse. Things will change as nature dictates in their own time and not one minute sooner nor later and certainly not because of your rantings. Society evolves at whatever rate it is prepared to do, and if you had any brains at all, you'd realize that all your talk of "injustices" and reparations only impedes your progress rather than further it by keeping everyone around you in polarity.

Until you learn to stop thinking in polar opposites, you will find yourself forever trapped in opposition to others and their opposing you.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.

What a terrible life you lead.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of sexism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of poverty.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of misery.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of violence and crime.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of (fill in the blanks).
Race-boy, you sure have your work cut out for you! You live in a dream world.
The world is FULL of injustice! The fact that you only care about one, discrimination towards Blacks and no one else proves once again what a white-hating racist race baiter you are. Hell, you are so damn racist I bet you can't even acknowledge discrimination towards others!

Blah, Blah, Blah. There is no excuse or acceptable level of injustice. When whites like you are whining about an imaginary oppression whites don not face, they cannot lecture others about how the world is full of injustice. And just because your white ass can't take the truth doesn't mean you get to lecture me about what I do. You want me to do and say things no one else has to. I am black, so I talk about things I face. I talk about what blacks face. I am not required to prove anything to you. You're a low rent, dumb white racist that enters my threads to troll and derail. You consistently make totally asinine assumptions all the time. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism.

 

[IM2]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

I actually agree...

After the Civil War, the Democrats used the KKK and Jim Crow laws to keep blacks down for another 100 years....

Sounds like the Democrat Party owes the blacks reparations (out of their party's coffers)!!!

The United States government owes blacks. A republican president ended reconstruction.

 

[IM2]

How can someone talk about "facing" racism all day long when all you do is see, think and present racism to others at every turn? You've painted yourself a victim so much that you waste all your time here as if there was nothing else in your life than telling threads to people who have no say nor control in the attitudes nor trends of society. Not a single one of your threads will serve to change a thing.

You are so smart you utterly fail to realize things today are the best they've ever been in the best society on the planet. Everyone suffers injustice of one kind or other, you are no better nor worse. Things will change as nature dictates in their own time and not one minute sooner nor later and certainly not because of your rantings. Society evolves at whatever rate it is prepared to do, and if you had any brains at all, you'd realize that all your talk of "injustices" and reparations only impedes your progress rather than further it by keeping everyone around you in polarity.

Until you learn to stop thinking in polar opposites, you will find yourself forever trapped in opposition to others and their opposing you.

show up on a thread about racism who isn't even prepared to admit it exists

Racism is alive and well, and IM2 is living proof of it. And it will never die so long as people continue to hold it between themselves rather than put it into the past and move on.

And no, societies do not evolve "as nature dictates". They evolve as smart (wo)men find they should, provided they find support for such development, either in legislatures or in society as a whole. That's why public arguing about racism is crucial.

Quaint theory but no. All the discussion and legislation in the world cannot change how people really think and feel. Thanks to the black activists and race baiters out there, I see more racial tension in many today than I did in the 1960s, and all of it coming from Blacks.

You can't provide evidence of racism on my part. And I can for you. The racial tension has never left and it's because whites like you still exist.

Your saying I can't provide evidence has nothing to do with providing evidence. You have a strange disconnect between what you THINK and what is. Let's take a poll here and ask who the most racist person is. I bet you get 88% of the vote.

And poll results in a section of a forum full of right wing whites doesn't make me a racist. Nor do your claims. You have no evidence and nothing I have said is racist.

Why Whites Call People Of Colour “Racist”

I have been called “racist” by White people whenever I specifically reject a legislative, political, media/film/art, or cultural manifestation of White supremacy. I’ve also been called “racist” for recounting any experience that I have had with racism. The actual act of naming what I heard or experienced is deemed “racist.” The naming, deconstruction and discussion of experiences of this nature is important, however.

There’s two reasons why Whites call people of colour (especially Black people) “racist.” First of all, it comes from a lack of understanding of the term (through ignorance or willful ignorance and hatred), its history and its consequences. As long as “racism” is viewed solely as “one person being mean to another person because of their race” or basically solely as an individual and arbitrary instance of prejudice with equal social capital between the individuals, Whites can obscure or ignore the ramifications of the historical (whether implied, microaggressions or overt racism), institutional, structural and systemic manifestations of White supremacy (which does NOT require extremism to exist) and racism.

A Black person being insulted based on slurs that facilitate(d)(s) oppression and genocide for centuries and that same sentiment behind that slur facilitates the denial of a plethora of opportunities as well as supports a plethora of types of discrimination and punishment represents a different magnitude and scope of an insult versus a Black person “hurting” a White person’s feelings, even if the former is rude.

Many times an insult is not occurring—it’s just a Black person adamantly rejecting White supremacy. The rejection of White supremacy and racism themselves is not “reverse racism.” Rejecting White supremacy is not then telling Whites to be “ashamed” of Whiteness, as they should be able to live and thrive without the lie that is the claim of inherent superiority.

The second reason why Whites call people of colour “racist” is quite different. I’ve been in several graduate-level psychology classes where White students stated that being called “racist” is the absolute worse thing that could happen to them. I always wondered why saying or doing a racist thing didn’t scare them more than being called “racist.” What I realized is that some Whites will call a person of colour who called out their racism “racist” in an “I know you are but what am I” reductionist retreat. The defense mechanisms of projection and denial are to protect their egos. If there’s nothing they fear more than being called “racist,” then the best thing to do is to get that label “away” from them as soon as possible. By deciding that a person of colour rejecting racism is the “real” “racist” act, not the racist act that they or another White person was called out on, they can deflect and derail. A common derailment tactic is to assert in a whiny voice “all Whites aren’t like this.” Who said they are?

A lack of understanding regarding what racism actually is, the belief that White supremacy is “normal” in society, the inability to see the manifestations of racism because they do not experience them and are shielded by White privilege, as well as self-protection from the label that they fear most is why Whites call people of colour “racist” and from my experience, seem to take great pleasure in doing so when that person of colour is Black.

Gradient Lair - Why Whites Call People Of Colour “Racist”

 

[IM2]

White People Have to Give Up Racism

Over time, those living on the other side, whether black, Latino, Asian, or Native American, have fought back and shamed white people into sharing the power and the spoils of capitalism. A few people of color have managed to achieve levels of success, as we typically define it, that rival their white counterparts. So, a popular narrative has become, “These few tokens beat the odds, why can’t all of you?” In fact, no one defeats racism; they just succeed in spite of it. But most don’t.

No, it’s not the job of people of color to win over racism, it’s the responsibility of white people to abandon it altogether. We’ve reached a point here in America, though, where we believe the worst of racism is over and the remaining animus is either not worth mentioning or dying off. Neither is true. Racism is the foundation; it literally built this country. It’s going to keep showing up. Denying that doesn’t solve the problem, it exacerbates it, making it so we can’t ever achieve real solutions.

Then Trayvon dies, or Rodrigo Diaz dies, or we debate protecting Native American women from sexual assault, and the promise of America doesn’t match up to the reality. But we've accepted the falsehood of equal opportunity. We’re a nation constantly lying to ourselves instead bettering ourselves.

So my solution? White people have to let go of racism. From the avowed racist, to the anti-racist activists, to the “I’m not a racist, I have two black friends” folks, to the “I don’t see color” people and everyone else between or on the margins. It has to be a concerted effort on the part of white people to actively reject racist beliefs, thoughts and actions.

Your next question is probably, "How?” Listening to people of color, earnestly, is a start. We’ve been at this a long time, shouting about where injustice lives, but white people’s response has often been reminiscent of a popular Jay-Z lyric: "We don’t believe you, you need more people." And then, when a white person has a “Black Like Me” moment—experiencing the type of discrimination typically reserved for people of color—white people are suddenly outraged. It would be laughable if it weren’t so insulting. Our stories are real. We have lived them and then recorded them, not because it’s fun to do so, but to draw attention to where change is needed. All white people have to do is listen.

White People Have to Give Up Racism

 

[MizMolly]

Until 54 years ago, race was a factor in both public and private policy. These policies advanced whites at everyone elses expense. Today we see whites, specifically "conservative" whites, wanting to propose ideas and solutions that do not take race into account. You cannot fix damage caused by race based policies by ignoring race in any solution. Whites can talk all the garbage about what they haven't done but since white racism continues, somebody is still doing it.

Name the race based policies in effect.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

America is so racist we may never have a real American black as President and have to settle for the cheap "Born in Kenya" knockoff

 

[IM2]

I think this is done here on purpose. The argument being made by blacks here do not end with slavery. There was a 100 year span of time where things went on that impacts life today. So if you can recognize how the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution impacts our lives today, the excuse of that was in the past has no merit in this discussion. In that 100 years after slavery, blacks experienced terrorism of all kinds.

A vast wealth gap, driven by segregation, redlining, evictions and exclusion, separates black and white America
By Trymaine Lee AUG. 14, 2019

Elmore Bolling, whose brothers called him Buddy, was a kind of one-man economy in Lowndesboro, Ala. He leased a plantation, where he had a general store with a gas station out front and a catering business; he grew cotton, corn and sugar cane. He also owned a small fleet of trucks that ran livestock and made deliveries between Lowndesboro and Montgomery. At his peak, Bolling employed as many as 40 people, all of them black like him.

One December day in 1947, a group of white men showed up along a stretch of Highway 80 just yards from Bolling’s home and store, where he lived with his wife, Bertha Mae, and their seven young children. The men confronted him on a section of road he had helped lay and shot him seven times — six times with a pistol and once with a shotgun blast to the back. His family rushed from the store to find him lying dead in a ditch.

The shooters didn’t even cover their faces; they didn’t need to. Everyone knew who had done it and why. “He was too successful to be a Negro,” someone who knew Bolling told a newspaper at the time. When Bolling was killed, his family estimates he had as much as $40,000 in the bank and more than $5,000 in assets, about $500,000 in today’s dollars. But within months of his murder nearly all of it would be gone. White creditors and people posing as creditors took the money the family got from the sale of their trucks and cattle. They even staked claims on what was left of the family’s savings. The jobs that he provided were gone, too. Almost overnight the Bollings went from prosperity to poverty. Bertha Mae found work at a dry cleaner. The older children dropped out of school to help support the family. Within two years, the Bollings fled Lowndes County, fearing for their lives.

The period that followed the Civil War was one of economic terror and wealth-stripping that has left black people at lasting economic disadvantage. White Americans have seven times the wealth of black Americans on average. Though black people make up nearly 13 percent of the United States population, they hold less than 3 percent of the nation’s total wealth. The median family wealth for white people is $171,000, compared with just $17,600 for black people. It is worse on the margins. According to the Economic Policy Institute, 19 percent of black households have zero or negative net worth. Just 9 percent of white families are that poor.

Today’s racial wealth gap is perhaps the most glaring legacy of American slavery and the violent economic dispossession that followed. The fate suffered by Elmore Bolling and his family was not unique to them, or to Jim Crow Alabama. It was part of a much broader social and political campaign.

“The origins of the racial wealth gap start with the failure to provide the formerly enslaved with the land grants of 40 acres,” says William A. Darity Jr., a professor of public policy and African-American studies at Duke University. Any financial progress that black people made was regarded as an affront to white supremacy. After a decade of black gains under Reconstruction, a much longer period of racial violence would wipe nearly all of it away.

Seventy years later, the effects of Bolling’s murder are still felt by his children and their children. “There was no inheritance, nothing for my father to pass down, because it was all taken away,” says Josephine Bolling McCall...

How America’s Vast Racial Wealth Gap Grew: By Plunder

America is so racist we may never have a real American black as President and have to settle for the cheap "Born in Kenya" knockoff

Since that didn't happen, don't you feel like a dumbass every time you repeat this?

 

[IM2]

Give up your racism Molly. You've benefited the most from affirmative action even as you marry the very people that made lives miserable for you. So just thank MLK and all the blacks who fought for your civil rights.

 

[toobfreak]

So you think your whole life revolves around the degree of suntan you have.

Why are you oppressed but this man gets ahead?


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Maybe he just ain't lazy.

That brown man faces the same racism I do.

How can someone talk about "facing" racism all day long when all you do is see, think and present racism to others at every turn? You've painted yourself a victim so much that you waste all your time here as if there was nothing else in your life than telling threads to people who have no say nor control in the attitudes nor trends of society. Not a single one of your threads will serve to change a thing.

You are so smart you utterly fail to realize things today are the best they've ever been in the best society on the planet. Everyone suffers injustice of one kind or other, you are no better nor worse. Things will change as nature dictates in their own time and not one minute sooner nor later and certainly not because of your rantings. Society evolves at whatever rate it is prepared to do, and if you had any brains at all, you'd realize that all your talk of "injustices" and reparations only impedes your progress rather than further it by keeping everyone around you in polarity.

Until you learn to stop thinking in polar opposites, you will find yourself forever trapped in opposition to others and their opposing you.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.

What a terrible life you lead.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of racism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of sexism.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of poverty.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of misery.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of violence and crime.
There is no such thing as an acceptable level of (fill in the blanks).
Race-boy, you sure have your work cut out for you! You live in a dream world.
The world is FULL of injustice! The fact that you only care about one, discrimination towards Blacks and no one else proves once again what a white-hating racist race baiter you are. Hell, you are so damn racist I bet you can't even acknowledge discrimination towards others!

Blah, Blah, Blah. There is no excuse or acceptable level of injustice. When whites like you are whining about an imaginary oppression whites don not face, they cannot lecture others about how the world is full of injustice. And just because your white ass can't take the truth doesn't mean you get to lecture me about what I do. You want me to do and say things no one else has to. I am black, so I talk about things I face. I talk about what blacks face. I am not required to prove anything to you. You're a low rent, dumb white racist that enters my threads to troll and derail. You consistently make totally asinine assumptions all the time. The root cause of the problems blacks face is white racism.

Blah, blah, blah. There is no excuse for your kind of myopic, unilateral, racist dumbfuckery. When Black shitheads like you whine about an imaginary oppression they don't face as an excuse for being a boil on the ass of society and putting the blame anywhere but squarely on themselves where all the blame belongs, they cannot lecture others about injustice. At best, it only proves your race is stupid and weak enough to take it century after century and nothing will ever change. And just because your worthless black ass can't take the truth, it doesn't mean you get to come here every day lecturing us about how you blame everyone but yourself.

I'm surrounded by Black excuses, so I get to talk about the things I see and face every day, I talk about what whites face every day, the burden of having to carry lazy buttholes like you through life who use skin color to blame and justify every obstacle they face while no one else gets to blame anything. They just learn to OVERCOME them. You haven't proven a single point you've made. You are just a high maintenance, typical black race baiter that does nothing but creates trolling threads to irritate people with your racist BULLSHIT. You consistently make every asinine claim you can. The root cause of the problems society faces today are the race-baiting segment of black society like you who wants to relive a past they never knew as an excuse for having their hand out for another 300 years rather than face the horror of actually carrying themselves through life responsible for themselves like everyone else must do to survive.

 

[IM2]

10 Ways American Slavery Continued Long After The Civil War

Slavery in America didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. It lived on—even after the Civil War had ended and the 13th Amendment had been put into place.

The Civil War brought the Confederate States back into the Union, but the people who lived in the South weren’t through fighting. They were determined to keep things exactly as they were during the heyday of slavery.

They made state laws that let them keep black people in essential servitude. As a result, slavery in America lived on for a lot longer than most people realize.

10 Slavery Was Used As A Legal Punishment

Photo via Wikimedia
The 13th Amendment didn’t make all forms of slavery illegal. It kept one exception. Slavery, it ruled, was still permitted “as a punishment for crime.”

All the Southern states had to do was find a reason to arrest their former slaves, and they could legally throw them right back on the plantation. So, Southern politicians set up a series of laws called the “Black Codes” that let them arrest black people for almost anything.

In Mississippi, a black person could be arrested for anything from using obscene language to selling cotton after sunset. If he was as much as caught using a bad word, he could be charged, leased out as a slave laborer, and put to work in chain gangs and work camps on farms, mines, and quarries.

It happened a lot. By 1898, 73 percent of Alabama’s revenue came from leasing out convicts as slaves.[1]

The enslaved convicts were treated terribly. They were beaten so brutally and viciously that, in one year, one of every four enslaved convicts died while working. Work camps kept secret, unmarked graves where they would bury men they’d beaten to death to hide the evidence. By the end, those graves held the mutilated bodies of at least 9,000 men.

10 Ways American Slavery Continued Long After The Civil War - Listverse

 

[Obiwan]

10 Ways American Slavery Continued Long After The Civil War

Slavery in America didn’t end with the Emancipation Proclamation. It lived on—even after the Civil War had ended and the 13th Amendment had been put into place.

The Civil War brought the Confederate States back into the Union, but the people who lived in the South weren’t through fighting. They were determined to keep things exactly as they were during the heyday of slavery.

They made state laws that let them keep black people in essential servitude. As a result, slavery in America lived on for a lot longer than most people realize.

10 Slavery Was Used As A Legal Punishment

Photo via Wikimedia
The 13th Amendment didn’t make all forms of slavery illegal. It kept one exception. Slavery, it ruled, was still permitted “as a punishment for crime.”

All the Southern states had to do was find a reason to arrest their former slaves, and they could legally throw them right back on the plantation. So, Southern politicians set up a series of laws called the “Black Codes” that let them arrest black people for almost anything.

In Mississippi, a black person could be arrested for anything from using obscene language to selling cotton after sunset. If he was as much as caught using a bad word, he could be charged, leased out as a slave laborer, and put to work in chain gangs and work camps on farms, mines, and quarries.

It happened a lot. By 1898, 73 percent of Alabama’s revenue came from leasing out convicts as slaves.[1]

The enslaved convicts were treated terribly. They were beaten so brutally and viciously that, in one year, one of every four enslaved convicts died while working. Work camps kept secret, unmarked graves where they would bury men they’d beaten to death to hide the evidence. By the end, those graves held the mutilated bodies of at least 9,000 men.

10 Ways American Slavery Continued Long After The Civil War - Listverse

Actually, the South was controlled by the Democrats during that period...
Solid South - Wikipedia
The Solid South or Southern bloc was the electoral voting bloc of the states of the Southern United States for issues that were regarded as particularly important to the interests of Democrats in the southern states. The Southern bloc existed especially between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. During this period, the Democratic Party controlled state legislatures; most local and state officeholders in the South were Democrats, as were federal politicians elected from these states. Southern Democrats disenfranchised blacks in every state of the former Confederacy at the turn of the 20th century. This resulted essentially in a one-party system, in which a candidate's victory in Democratic primary elections was tantamount to election to the office itself. White primarieswere another means that the Democrats used to consolidate their political power, excluding blacks from voting in primaries.[1]

The "Solid South" is a loose term referring to the states that made up the voting bloc at any point in time. The Southern region as defined by U.S. Census comprises sixteen states plus Washington, D.C.—Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.
And you are a staunch Democrat, right???

Why is that???

Are you racist???

 

[Olde Europe]

Actually, the South was controlled by the Democrats during that period...

Correct, and a pox on the Democratic house. Also, from your link:

After the 1960s and passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ensuring federal enforcement of registration and voting, African Americans in the region were able to register and vote, rejoining the political system for the first time since the turn of the 20th century. While nearly six million African Americans had left the region by then in the Great Migration to other areas of the country, most of those who remained became affiliated with the Democratic Party. Its national leaders had supported the civil rights movement. Around the same time, white conservatives began to shift to the Republican Party, which by 2000 attracted most of the white voters.​

By now, the racist shitheads, and not just in the South, are forming the backbone of the Republican camp, the true heirs of the treasonous Confederacy. And, Gawd, they are giddy over Trump sticking it to Those people, taking revenge for the preposterous imposition Those people be treated with the respect they deserve as humans.

Isn't that so, Obi?