Originally Posted by ratbastid

Really? You think?

Let's say the tables were HONESTLY turned. Let's say Europe was populated by blacks, and Africa by whites. Let's say America was founded by black Europeans, who imported white slaves to work. Let's say that black American majority fought a civil war, and black Abraham Lincoln freed all the white slaves.

Then let's say that over the next hundred-someodd years the whites gradually gained civil rights, but that it had come, long the turn of the 21st Century, to the point where the prisons were vastly fuller of white inmates than black, a few token whites had prominent positions in business and government, but it was still largely a bastion of black power. Let's say that poverty and crime were disproportionately higher in the white community, education was worse, and there were all sorts of invisible barriers to white entry into successful society.

Then let's say a white judge--one of the relatively few to make it--closed down his courtroom after the close of official business one day to give a "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" talk to the white folks in his courtroom.

You're telling me you know damn well what the fallout of all that would be?

Because if that's not the question you're asking, then you're not FAIRLY turning the tables, you're just saying "them durn minorities got rights we majority folks don't". Which is a hysterical thing for a white dentist to say.