08-15-2018, 11:48 PM
(08-14-2018, 06:42 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Today is very similar to the Jim Crow south in the fact that whites control a large disproportionate amount of the wealth and power and racism still exists.
So lets stop pretending that the Jim Crow south was "nothing like today". Some very important things are still the same.
Wrong. Has no bearing on this conversation. You can keep rolling that out there, but you, I and everyone else know that the rights of blacks during Jim Crow and their position within society was nowhere near comparable to the rights and freedoms they currently possess. It is absolutely nothing like today for minorities. Blacks then had virtually no whites sympathetic to their oppression. Today the majority of whites in this country are heavily in favor of equal rights and treatment for minorities.
