mattskramer
Senior Member
I don't think blacks needed help then amymore than they do now.
Okay. We agree to disagree. I think that the Blacks needed a lot of help then but not as much help now. Think of a time several decades ago. Think of the son of a slave who was recently freed. Do you think that he had the same opportunity as the son of his fathers owner at jobs and opportunities? Think of the different friends and networks that each had. Poof - you and your children are free. Go find a job and be self-reliant old Black man. versus Well, son. Here are a few thousand dollars. You can stay in our guest room of this mansion. We hired this expert for this trade that you wanted to learn. If you run into difficulty, talk to me and we can work something out.
No. There was a big difference between these two classes of people (the haves (whites) and the have-nots (recent ex-slaves)). The differences followed them and their children for several years. It became less and less of a difference as time progressed but there was still a difference brought on by generations of unequal treatment.
And what about the poor whites, or any other ethnicity for that matter?
These were not American slaves forced to do hard physical labor in order to barely survive at the hands of a slave-owner. Even from generations ago, they were allowed to improve themselves, learn, and grow simply provided that they had the resources of friends, family, and money. They had no owner preventing them from doing what they wanted to do or from learning what they wanted to learn.
This isn't about skin color. That's a ruse the elite would like you to believe in an effort to cover up the true discrimination is against class, not color.
I disagree. White people and non-Black minorities were allowed to rise above their class. Back then, there was no slave-owners directly preventing the non-Blacks from advancing. Today, there is very little, if any, class discrimination. You cant say the same for the Black man. Until a couple of generations have passed, it was nearly impossible to rise above your status if you were a Black person. This was due to generational slavery and forced ignorance. Blacks were not allowed to learn and grow unless it was the desire of the slave-owner to let him do so.
Anyway, those days have come and gone. Now Blacks, thanks to affirmative action-like policies, are on the same playing field as are Whites, and minorities.