08-16-2018, 02:23 PM
(08-15-2018, 11:48 PM)Beaker Wrote: 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.
Yes it does have a bearing because you keep admitting that racism still exists.
The differences were not as great now as during the Jim Crow era, but that does not change the underlying truth. When there is racism in a society the race that controls the power and wealth has a privilege.
Unless you deny that whites had a privilege in the Jim Crow south you can not deny that they also have a privilege now. The degree is different, but the underlying facts are still exactly the same. Racism still exists and whites still control the wealth and power.
