06-22-2020, 08:56 PM
(06-22-2020, 05:20 PM)Truck_1_0_1_ Wrote: Perhaps a bit of both?
It's cyclical in nature.
True, it is cyclical. However, we have to think of the whole chicken and egg thing; which came first?
Maybe it's just me, but their ~250 years as chattel followed by an immediate attempt to find any excuse to incarcerate black men because they feared what would happen to the economy without free labor followed by successive efforts to continually oppress them and incarcerate black men tells me that the systemic oppression caused the culture, if we choose to call it that, to form. When fathers could be sold away or locked away at the drop of a hat for quite literally the entirety of African-American history, what should we expect to occur?
"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
