(06-23-2020, 05:34 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(06-23-2020, 05:06 PM)TJBender Wrote: You're right. It's about hundreds of years of minorities in the US getting the occasional pat on the back before going back to being pushed aside, sometimes gently and sometimes by force. And yeah, because it's been said on here before, I am allowed to be white and still think there's something wrong with this picture. You want all lives to matter? Then black lives have to matter as much as any other lives do, and the US has spent its entire existence demonstrating that they don't think that's the case.

Regarding your first point in bold.  Yes my race was discriminated against, but did that stop me or my parents from achieving the American dream?  Were we not afforded the same opportunity to work hard and achieve success?  For that matter my grandparents born into poverty successfully raised good families and ran a couple of good ranches.  One of my grandfathers also served our country during WWII honorably.  We are/were all minorities and were never "pushed aside".

To your second point, are you saying that a poor black kid born into poverty in the 1950's didn't have the same opportunity to achieve as a white person born at the same time?  Are you saying that a black person born today doesn't have the same opportunity as a white child?  Native American child?  Hispanic child?