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Oh, I don't know, perhaps one thing that makes it different is that black people have never risen up in mobs and killed lots of white people. While white folks most certainly have formed into murderous bands and gone on rampages against blacks. Think that might have something to do with the sensitivity around this issue? The wounds simply have not healed and it has nothing to do with affirmative action. Affirmative action came to be because at one point in time, in our recent history, people remembered these things. You talk about slavery like it ended there once the slaves were freed. Ignoring the century of shame that passed between the emancipation proclamation and the civil rights movement. I don't think a little respect and the accordance of a little more attention to how black people feel when a white person calls them a nigger or makes fun of the way they act is too much to ask.
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