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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hard work and determination made slaves successful?  Allowed Black people to thrive under American apartheid (Jim Crow laws)?  Allowed Black people to build wealth under systems of red-lining?

I think you need to hop off your silver spoon.[/quote]
And you need to hop over to 2020, none of these things are stopping anyone from being successful today. The biggest barrier to success are terrible parents telling their children that someone or something is stopping them from being somebody.[/quote]

Is it that you don't think it matters that the average white family has 10 times more wealth than the average Black family (just one of many examples of the way historical racism continues to play out), or that you think that doesn't have anything to do with our history of centuries of racism and racial injustice?

Legal segregation and other forms of explicit and major structural racism have been over for less than 60 years.  Little Ruby Bridges who integrated her school under brutally racist circumstances is only 66 years old today.  How quickly do you think all the effects of this stuff disappear?

It's like you beat a person bloody and then start yelling at them as they lie battered on the floor "Why aren't you getting up?  I'm not hitting you anymore!  You must just be lazy and weak..."[/quote]
What are you blathering about? What exactly is stopping a high schooler of any color from becoming successful? What law is prohibiting them from becoming as powerful and educated as they want? I’m truly wondering what you are talking about, how will you face a 17 year old and tell them “you can’t do this because of your race” in 2020? And my children aren’t white by the way.[/quote]

NP. Your head is so far in the sand it isn't worth the time to pull it out and have you sputter sand in our eye. Do you. But youre wrong.[/quote]

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