LoneLaugher
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Chinese were brought here to work building the transcontinental railroad and paid nearly slave wages for dangerous working conditions.Ok the last one. Every race in America has suffered oppression and poverty in the past. Why have so many overcome it...but blacks havent?
Jews. Asians. Irish. Mexicans. All dirt poor and oppressed. All have done better here.
Excellent! You've chosen a wonderful question for discussion.
The black American experience has no comparison when it comes to Jews, Asians, Mexicans and especially Irish immigrants.
None of those groups were brought here and held against their will, completely separated from their roots, bought and sold like property, denied all forms of formal education and ......once released from the bonds of indentured servitude.....given second class status clear up to the mid 1960's.
Then....when legally equal to their former masters.....subjected to bullshit policies like redlining and a fucked up grade school to prison pipeline which served to institutionalize their lower class status in this nations economy.
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We imprisoned Japanese people just for being Japanese.
Mexicans here arent even allowed to DRIVE.
Jews were slaughtered by the millions.
White mill and mine workers were basically slaves. They were "paid" with store credit..given a "house" and all deleted from the pay check...which is more than the check...so the bosses said they had to work off the debt.
Sorry buddy. Blacks shared the same poverty every other race has.
They were what? Paid?