Fool. Slavery never began in 1776. So where's the outrage at slavery until then?
Who said anything about 1776? You enslaved and persecuted blacks before and after that date. In terms of the lot of the average black American, 1776 meant absolutely fucking nothing.
You continued on with blacks having inferior schools, separate places to sit on busses, different washrooms, different doors to enter buildings--a system of virtual apartheid if you're honest--right up into the 1960's, and even today it is not hard to find fundamentally racist people continuing the persecution, though from the 1980's onwards it's finally gotten a little better.
Oh wait this isn't really about Slavery is it? (Horrible as it was) It's about taking another shot at the Superpower.
Oh wait if you could get off your "America versus the world" hobby horse you might actually re-read the thread and find out the topic was why does the US have more crime than other industrialized nations. You guys have third world levels of crime, despite having a strong economy and overall good opportunities. Why is that?
Everyone, and I mean everyone, knows that your crime is fundamentally linked to the problems with your african American communities. On another thread the local black-defenders, frankcastle, toke, and so on, were ganging up on me for having the nerve to suggest that blacks were responsible for a lot of the crime. Well, everybody knows they are.
But why?
My premise here, and I think it's bloody hard to dispute, is that it's the lingering effects of the absolute atrocity inflicted on the african american community by a regime which--let's put it in terms that are actually honest--by a slaving nation that was racist to the core, which institutionalized discrimination, popularized it, and persecuted blacks not only physically through beatings, not only by forcibly separating and breaking familes, but through a massive media propaganda campaign to convince absolutely everyone--blacks most of all--that they were inferior to everybody else.
Sure, for the last forty years or so you've been trying hard to undo the damage. You've done good things like implement affirmative action programs and launch campaigns to convince people they oops, hey sorry, blacks are OK. And you've elected a half black President, which is wonderful.
But considering the scope and the scale of the hundreds of years long human rights crimes that you perpetrated on your black citizens--well it's not surprising it's taking longer than 40 years to put humpty dumpty back together again. You don't commit atrocity on that scale and for that many hundreds of years without creating deep, fundamental, generations long problems.
The crime you have today, that's the chickens coming home to roost. It's a difficult, horrible problem, which involves recognizing two things nobody likes to recognize:
-- Institutionalized racism in the United States has created on hell of a monster of a problem, and
-- The problem has a racial component, there is a broken community, that is producing broken people as a result of it
Some people squirm about the idea of affirmative action and call it reverse descrimination. OK. Let's talk reparations. The benefits of the various equity programs designed to mitigate the damage you inflicted is really a drop in the bucket compared to the scale of atrocity perpetrated.
Big surprise there. You show me any other country anywhere that has owned up to Slavery horrors like the U.S. has.
The US was one of the *last* Western countries to practice slavery, everybody else got out of it much earlier. The reason nobody else has had to own up to it is that nobody else practiced it quite so long, quote so thoroughly, or quite so viciously as the United States. Nobody else in the West anyway.
But I like it.
