Re: Do you think this statement is true?
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Champion
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Date: October 06, 2011 10:44AM
"Go back to the days of racial segregation (with NO obligations from the Whites to provide any kind of aid to the blacks, spics or muslimes), and the chronic social problems in White communities would plunge."
I'm white so I may be biased, but I thought treating everyone equally was the opposite of racial segregation. We have a system now that is institutionally racist, in that our institutions treat people differently depending on race. We got rid of state segregation and then re-instituted it at the federal level just a few years later.
The great society went to the black community and said, we are awfully sorry for limiting your job choices and keeping you separate from white people. To make up for it we, the government, will pay for you to live where there aren't any jobs or white people. Places prone to flooding for instance. In return all you have to do is relinquish any pretense of owning something. It will all belong to us and we will give you things as we deem appropriate according to rules we alone write. And we will pass rules that only benefit you if you agree to break up your organizations and families. We'll give you more if you don't work, or don't marry, We will send your kids to schools for free, but they won't be taught to read, and if you try to send them elsewhere we will jail you.
I know this is inflammatory, but how is this different from the situation we had under slavery?