Equality by law DOES mean something as far as opportunities go. It means one cannot be discriminated against by law when pursuing those opportunities.
No, it means one cannot be legally discriminated against. That doesn't mean it doesn't happen all the fucking time, and its next to impossible to prove unless the racist is just really really stupid.
Who has a 400 year late start? That's crap. Blacks born in the US today have the same "start" as anyone else. To use that as an excuse is what's ludicrous. And that's all it is. An excuse.
You really think income doesn't effect peoples opportunities in the US?
Wright and Malcom X both are and were respectively, racist. They promote their race exclusively, and paint a woebegone, downtrodden picture of how rough blacks have it and how they're getting screwed by "the Man."
And how is that racist exactly?
I can understand Malcom X doing it. He is from a period in time when there was legal discrimination. Wright is just perpetuating racial devisiveness with his inflammatory propaganda.
Ah because once its illegal it just all goes away, right? BTW, Wright is a child of the '60s as well.