I know a lot of Black people who have worked hard and become successful. How did they do that being held down and oppressed with their skin color?
" I know a lot of Black people who have worked hard and become successful. How did they do that being held down and oppressed with their skin color? "
we USE to be VERY racist;
(think of SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN slave owning democrats)
VERY RACIST!
and even after the civil war and ACTUAL SLAVERY had ended, we still had jim crow, kkk, unfair arrestes of blacks with the punishment being "forced labor" (slavery)
so even though slavery had ended SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN democrats managed to flout the law and STILL discriminate, abuse and treat blacks in a very unfair manner...
and even after the Civil Rights act (passed by MORE DEMOCRATS than REPUBLICANS!)
we still had unfair hiring practices, workplace discrimination, discrimination in government, the military. Because of those damned racist SOUTHERN CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS and their friends northern CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS.
and even today we have conservatives (much like you) calling blacks "animals, thugs, violent, criminals" even though MOST of them are NONE of those things.
and, let us at least try and focus on the INSTITUTIONAL RACISM rampant in police forces that think NOTHING of executing a black man in the street for a crime that a white man would walk away from.....
first case of SYSTEMIC INSTITUTIONAL DISCRIMINATION and UNFAIR TREATMENT OF BLACKS;
wiki;
'There were no laws regarding slavery early in Virginia's history. But, in 1640, a Virginia court sentenced
John Punch, an African, to slavery after he attempted to flee his service.
[16] The two whites with whom he fled were sentenced only to an additional year of their indenture, and three years' service to the colony.
[17] This marked the first legal sanctioning of slavery in the English colonies and was one of the first legal distinctions made between Europeans and Africans.
[16][18]'
2 white guys get an extra year but the black guy got beaten, tazed and had all of his rights taken away!