>>50652660The foundation of the American government is one that pronounced blacks as property, and later, second-class citizens. During the era of slavery, it was such that even the most dirt poor white person was of a higher social standing than a black person. American leaders were constantly working to justify slavery by looking for ways to say that blacks were not the same humans.
At one point, prior to the Civil War, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not and could not be American citizens. After slavery was abolished, dozens of new ways of keeping blacks under heel emerged, perpetuated by bitter confederates, opportunistic whites, and their impoverished lessers who did not want to be seen as being of the same social standing as blacks. While the first and third categories often employed physical violence to oppress blacks, the middle category uses tools like regulation, and media manipulation to oppress blacks instead. Sentiments of racism echo out from the battlefields and cotton fields of the past into the courtrooms, news outlets, and precincts of today. A few years ago, a U.S. Senator called slavery a necessary evil. It absolutely wasn't, but the point is, that in saying that, he is openly acknowledging America's history, which has set the stage for the disenfranchisement of modern blacks.
There is no world in which the following stance:
>I don't hate black people, I hate their attitudes. Has any weight, because the average black person's attitude has nothing to do with the bad things that happen to them. The problem is the public perception of blacks. Black negativity is always accentuated in the media. While it is true that it is a better time now to be a black American, systemic oppression is still a reality. It hasn't gone away. I can't really go in depth about all of this shit in the 2000 character body of a 4chan comment, so I'm bullet pointing, but it goes on and on and on if you look for it.
