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Originally Posted by neptune
Are you really that obtuse? You haven't ever really thought much about what it means to be a minority in this country have you?
"Many blacks" are more angered by the systemic racism and subtle discrimination faced on a daily basis far more than by slavery.
Just a hunch...
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The prison chain gang system from the 1860's on up to the 1930's was just slavery in another form. Black convicts would be
officially issued a sentence short enough to qualify for the chain gangs
[then have it lengthened by dubious penalties regardless how well behaved they were]. Meanwhile white convicts would get- again officially, sentences too long to qualify and then get out on VERY early release on good behavior. Occasionally white inmates went on the chain gangs, but the vast majority were Black. And it's not until a white chain gang inmate reported the physical abuses as his reason for escaping that the practice was halted.
See, unlike slaves prison laborers could be abused to the point of being mamed or killed without consequence to those contracting with the prisons for labor. Many chain gangs were used on plantations formerly worked by slaves, yet again, with far less food and more brutal treatment.
And, lest we forget, that slavery alone isn't why many Black citizens feel resentment and agrer toward whites.
But of course a bigoted pieces of shit like Born
Wrong know there's more to this than he pretends.