You enter these threads and you read page after page of whites complaining about how people of color, most specifically blacks, are asking for extra things at the expense of whites. For some reason these people believe that equal rights lows and policies for non whites infringes upon their "individual" freedom.
I would like to know what whites call the years from 1776 until 1965 by law? Was this not whites getting extra rights at the expense of others? I need an explanation from one of our fine colorblind equal rights for everyone white conservative here.
If I might add something. It is undeniable what transpired during those years. And a common response that most will provide is that they have no recollection of that era which is understandable.
When my Dad taught U.S. history at a local middle school in San Diego California in 1965, he was called on the carpet by school administrators for deviating from the lies that we were taught back then about the "Great Emancipator" and how he unselfishly freed the slaves. And how after the Civil War ended, they cast off their chains and lived happily ever after as free men and women....lol.
What my Dad did was to also cover the origin of Jim Crow laws which took effect immediately after abolishing slavery and he taught his class how these oppressive laws were born out of the original slave codes.
Since he grew up in Kansas in the 1930's, he experienced life under those laws first hand, and I'm old enough to recall traveling with he and my Mother down south and seeing what we read about today.
Those laws were not abolished until 1965. But the lingering effects of them were equally if not more damaging than the institution of slavery, because they quite effectively sent many black families who were supposed to be "free" into a cycle of generational poverty.