Sow, let me get this straight,.. you're saying that it's racist to say that black people should also be held accountable for their crimes?
This comment has nothing to do with what I stated above. I was simply explaining to you all why referring to black people as "colored" or "negro" makes you suspect of being racist. Now that it's been explained to you that it's a relic term from when the U.S.
LEGALLY segregated black people from whites, continuing to use it categorizes the user as racist because you know better and are intentionally choosing to use a word that is antagonistic in many cases.
As far as you claiming I said or was implying the following, striking that one word fixes it for you:
"So, let me get this straight,.. you're saying that it's racist to say that
black people should also be held accountable for their crimes?"
I don't know why you think only black people lie and try to escape punishment for the things they do, all criminals do that, have you not been paying attention to the proceedings from the January 6th 2021 storming of the Capital defendants, just as one, highly visible example?
And while we're here I would also like to point out that the reason I stated that you were being demeaning as well as preachy is because you started a sentence with "
IF black people want equality" as if you are the arbiter of whether or not we receive it. Equality is the law of the land since 1964 in the United States and it's only because of people who think as you do and withhold it or make it conditional upon what some whites believe to be how we should be;have or respond to being granted things that should have been ours all along ("don't appreciate") that we're still fighting for what is rightly ours.
It is because we fight and won't just lay down and take whatever it is you all dish out, that WE get labeled as "racist" which does nothing more than prove just how deep the ignorance goes.