Jimmy Higgins
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Lingering cultural effect. Lingering? As in the consequences resulted in an avalanche? They are covered in 50 ft of snow at the bottom and you are saying there might be "lingering" impacts.You're talking about Asians coming here on H1-B visas. I'm talking about the ones brought here for the railroad work etc. They started out the same as the ex-slave blacks.
Yes, precisely the same.
IGNORING 400 YEARS OF ENSLAVEMENT BY AND WITHIN THE AMERICAN CULTURE.
The lingering cultural effect is called racism. Except by snowflakes who would like to avoid confronting any complicity in the plight of oppressed minorities...
Yes, we are ALL complicit, even the victims.
You're redefining the word.
Yes, there is a lingering cultural effect.
Regardless, also a "lingering" financial effect. Perhaps the largest issue remains access to housing. Blacks weren't in the same position to own real estate as the suburbs boomed. It was restricted to them. This created a generational problem regarding access to homes that'd gain notable value, better schools, less crime.
We are talking several generations of this. It is a massive avalanche that buried them and greatly restricted progress. You want to blame culture, but the truth is, this was all done INTENTIONALLY against them, and we are seeing the results of this intentional action. It isn't culture, it was sabotage.
The anti-discrimination efforts again aren't pulling them up and out... it is just pulling them up a couple feet.That doesn't make the cultural effect racism and it doesn't make anti-discrimination efforts do anything about it.
Loren: Sorry bout all that bullshit between 1700 and 1970, boy. Here are some boot straps.