06-08-2018, 12:04 PM
(06-07-2018, 07:15 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: If you read that article and gleaned "there is no current discrimination against black people" from it then I have to question your comprehension ability.
"Yet there we were—young black men born decades after anything that could rightly be called ‘oppression’ had ended—benefitting from a social license bequeathed to us by a history that we have only experienced through textbooks and folklore. . .
modern-day blacks must be seen through the filter of history—not as autonomous individuals living in the present. . .
Stale grievances are dredged up from history ,
How is the discrimination they are facing today not "oppression". He is making a huge deal out of semantics. The obvious implication from his direct quote is that black people today are not victims of racism.
