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Originally posted by Stare At The Sun
Blacks have had well over a hundred years to get their shit together, white european americans did it in 1 generation. Its a matter of personal choice and motivation. Blacks, hispanics, asians, jews, any other minority of choice are not "Oppressed" in the US. There are no lynchings, segregation or preferential treatment. Infact, blacks and minorities recieve better treatment more often than whites, so....they should be doing better.
If you would like to show me how blacks and minorities are still held down in todays society, i would love to hear all about it. But, the reality is, they are given the same chance as everyone else.
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In my fair city, a report was issued last year on racial profiling. The report concluded that the police were more likely to pull over minorities and search their cars, despite the fact that statistically the police were more likely to find drugs and contraband in the vehicles of white people. This isn't to say that whites have drugs more often than minorities, just that the police only pulled over the whites who they had good reason to suspect had drugs.
Racism exists. Don't pretend it doesn't. It is covert nowadays. That might help to explain why euro immigrants have generally had an easier time adjusting to american life. You could never look at me and know just from my apprearance that i've got german in me. You could however look at a black man and know instantly that he's black, and if you're even a smidge racist that's all you need.
I'm not saying that i think AA is a very well thought out plan of action. I'm just saying that your claim that minorities aren't "held down" in society is bullshit. We can pretend that racism ended sometime in that fuzzy post MLK civil rights era or we can face reality. White privelidge and racial profiling do exist.