06-22-2020, 03:28 PM
(06-22-2020, 03:23 PM)Lucidus Wrote: Many people of color, especially those in academia, would disagree with your assertion. To label an honest and nuanced conversation about the subject as "BULLSHIT" seems a very narrow-minded and insensitive dismissal.
Some people have no knowledge of the history of Black Codes that were enacted in the post-Civil War South (and the North before the war, to be honest with ourselves) that attempted to control the black community through the law and incentivized the arrest and imprisonment of black men so they could be used as free labor for localities and planters through "convict leasing." Ignorance of this history and its continued use up to present day and the impact it has had on the black community in modern times is what leads many people to make the misinformed arguments about "black-on-black crime" and discussing the way black fathers aren't around.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
