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?
Because there are always exceptions to everything. But what we want are the same opportunites for everyone else, not just those of us who were fortunate.
Did you even listen to her explain how our econmics are managed and destroyed by a system of institutional racism?
She is a powerful speaker. Taking those two incidents from the early 1920's (Rosewood and Greenwood) and using them as a blanket condemnation of whites, as if it were SOP, routine and ongoing, is an unfair argument, though.
I didn't see any blanket condemnation in what she said. Her monopoly analogy was very apropos. We are chided for not being self-sufficient as if our struggle to do so is some type of character flaw. All while completely ignoring the stacked game of monopoly that we were thrust into. Yet everytime we bring up the accomplishment that were achieved in the most affluent black community in the nation demonstrating our abilities to achieve self-sufficiency and how it was burnt to the ground by envious whites, we're scolded on how long ago that was while completely ignoring two things.
The first one is that whites have learned that lynching, murdering and burning black people out is a very effective way to shut down our progress knowing that the fear has been implanted that even if you rebuild and regain the things that were lost, there is absolutely nothing that will prevent the racists from coming and downing it down again.
The other thing that is always conveniently overlooked is how not a single white person out of that mob of 3,000 was ever arrested, let alone charged with any crime while hundreds of black people were charged and run of out town as a result of the unrest.
All of this injustice is a wound that was never treated and continues to fester. Until it is treated, the eruptions will continue.