Dumb.
White anger over arrest of two black men at Starbucks is long overdue
1.) You have been raised in the greatest nation a free people could ever create.
2.) You Have spent zero days as a slave.
3.) You Have never seen a sign that says “whites only.”
4.) You Have had more opportunity than 90% of the people walking this planet.
You want to make it sound as though all of the problems for blacks were gone 100 years ago. They weren't.
I am 58 years old and I have seen a couple of "whites only" signs.
I went to a segregated public school until the 3rd grade.
When I was 3 years old the Gov. of Alabama stood in the doorway and tried to prevent the desegregation of the Univ of AL. Not some hillbilly. The Governor of the State.
I can remember my parents talking after Bloody Sunday when the black marchers were attacked on the 1st march from Selma to Montgomery. I remember my mother crying because she was scared when Dad joined in the 2nd march.
I was 3 years old when Eugene "Bull" Connor turned fire hoses and had the police sicc german shepherds on peaceful protestors in Birmingham.
When I was 3 some KKK assholes bombed a church in Birmingham, killing 4 little girls. Bombed a church! The girls were changing into their choir robes when the bomb went off. I was 3 when the bomb went off. But I was 17 when Robert Chambliss was prosecuted for the murder.
I am not of retirement age, and these things happened in my lifetime. And these are the things that were blatant. These were the things that came from the authorities. Far worse came from ignorant rednecks.