NewsVine_Mariyam
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Your perspective is rather arrogant. Do you honestly feel that before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal racial segregation in this country, only the most competent whites were in positions of importance, authority, etc.?
By making the comment you did you're voicing the preconceived and prejudicial belief that many white people default to, that Black people are less competent to do the work for which they are hired, instead of the fact that racism, not lesser competence, has been and still is an impediment to better opportunities because only whites were allowed to work in certain occupations.
And not only were Black people excluded from certain occupations, the jobs they regularly occupied in the service industry as maids, bellcaps for the trains, housekeepers, agricultural workers in the fields, etc. were intentionally excluded from the social safety net of social security (Social Security Act of 1935). I learned about this particular bit of history from IM2 (thank you
)You mention air traffic controllers and the many recent close calls with tragedy being narrowly adverted but I haven't heard any Black people on the radio to the aircraft when sound clips of these incidents were broadcast on the news so what exactly are you talking about? We all know that the Tuskegee Airmen were a highly qualified elite group of fighter pilots who served overseas in the U.S. Army Air Corps during WWII yet were not allowed to fly for any of the commercial airlines back here in the States between the end of the war in 1945 and just prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There was no reason for them not to be hired because they had certainly proven their abilities as aviators. It was simply nothing more than racism plain & simple - from the airlines and their passengers who didn't want to be onboard an aircraft with Black people and particularly not with one of them piloting their aircraft.
I have a friend who is just a few years shy of retirement and he used to have me laughing about how white people in the airport would see him in uniform and sometimes tell him get their bags for them. And he would if he had the time
It never occurred to them that he was one of the airline's captains and not a skycap.And even though you say all races in your commentary on making improvements, you then proceed to single out Black kids as being better off in a single parent home if the dad "sells illegal drugs, a thief, or worse" therefore perpetuating the same negative and racist stereotypes.
I posted an article regarding America's poorest white town. Do your admonishments for Black people also apply to the white people of Beattyville, Kentucky?
America's Poorest White Town
