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Originally Posted by xepherys
You can't pretend they never happened... one needs to elarn thier lessons from the past. However, you DO have to get over it. You can't expect equality, and expect to be treated differently. Those two things are, in fact, mutually exclusive. So, black people in America can either dwell on the past, or they can become equals. Black people and white people don't have to be the SAME. But they have to deserve the SAME THINGS.
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The problem is, it's not up to black people. Black people have tried the "grin and bear it" technique, but it doesn't work. If whites don't want blacks to be equal, they won't. And there's no evidence that whites want blacks to be equal. If they did, they would take real steps to erase the vast inequalities they created. I agree that blacks deserve to have the same things as whites, but it's up to the whites (as the people with the power) to give them up. And that's not happening. Racism isn't something that went away in the '60's, it's just as damaging now as it was then. Every black person lives daily with racism of some form or other. And I've given up thinking that will ever change, so the best thing blacks can do now is improve their economic position as much as possible so they can try to take care of themselves.