(07-17-2019, 08:31 AM)TrivialPursuit Wrote:

(07-16-2019, 07:15 PM)JaguarKick Wrote: This kind of comment is the worst kind of privilege.  They just need to get over it, right?  From you, who has never had to experience the same?  People in this country have been identified, classified, profiled, and treated differently due to race for 90% of this country's history, and your solution is "well, that's over now, so move on!"  It makes it sorta hard when there are still groups and people like the [BLEEP] PRESIDENT who continue to perpetuate [BLEEP] like this.  There were people holding signs of Obama in a noose and burning effigies of him when he was elected, but we should just ignore that, right?  Racism's dead though, yeah?  As late as the 80s, black people in this country couldn't secure loans to buy homes, resulting in systemic and racially motivated poverty that still has an effect today.  But hey, that shouldn't matter any more!

I don't think you could showcase any more clearly how out of touch you are.

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Black people couldn't secure loans because they couldn't afford them. The successful black people did just fine.

Moral of the story - if you want nice things - be successful - and no success has zero to do with skin color and everything to do with initiative and drive.

Example - I'm lazy and perfectly fine coasting through on my natural intelligence. But if I had initiative and drive and ambition I could easily be a millionaire. But who wants that hassle? I don't want to work every second of my life.