Quote:I see your argument and point but it is not 1840, 1890, 1920, 1950, or 1970 anymore there are opportunities to be had.  For the most part anyone of working age today has had equal opportunity.  Affirmative action is not a fix all but its a step in the right direction.  Police have targeted your communities and that does need to be dealt with but there is no one saying you can't go to a school because its whites only or holding anyone back from going to a library to learn.  There is nothing stopping anyone from joining the military and getting training there.  If police truly are the enemy and you feel all they are trying to do is get you in trouble for no good reason then stay the hell away from the police.  The older generations did not have the opportunity people have today but today the opportunity is there for the taking.


If hostility is returning its because of groups like black lives matter or seeing large groups of black people burning down cities.  The other problem is just about  every city you burn down turns out to be for a guy whose actions got him shot, not his skin color.  I'll agree the Tulsa cop was completely overzealous with her shooting and Eric Garner in Ny were killed completely unjustly.  Some of these other shootings though.  Man with a weapon attacking clerk..  felon with a gun brandishing towards officer, felon with a gun repeatedly told to put the gun down.  What the heck did they expect to happen?


Yeah there are problems but at the same time there are things this country is doing right.


Maybe its because I'm only 31 and I didn't live through times when blacks were not equals but I don't see the persecution.  I don't see cops going around rounding up all the black people and bragging to their friends about holding them back.  I don't see the families snickering about an interracial couple in the stores.


No one can change the past and it is on everyone to fix the future but to continue to complain about something out of your control generations removed seems like a waste of effort.  Compared to taking the opportunity they didn't have and running with it.

You, me, and almost everyone else here can say whatever and it won't matter because some folks already have their minds made up that unless we're black we will never understand any kind of hardship, pain or suffering at all. Because according to them only they can suffer, have any hardship or pain- ever. They have no interest in doing anything other than crying in their beer for things that didn't even happen to them personally but feel they are are owed nonetheless. They have no interest in moving forward and will forever be bitter and angry toward people not of their race. It's sad, really, but I'm done with this. 

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