Well that's what you are telling me.
Look.
All white people say they're not racist.
The denial of racism is essential to it's maintenance.
But guess what ?
That's always been the case
In 1963 whites told Gallup polls that blacks were treated equally in their communities.
- This in the same year that Medgar Evers was shot down dead in his driveway in Jackson.
- This in the same year that Bull Connor plowed tanks through the black community and hosed down children in Birmingham.
- This in the same year that 4 young black girls were murdered at the 16th Street Baptist Church there and George Wallace gave his “segregation forever’” speech.
In 1962, most whites said that black children had just as good a chance to get a good education as white children.
Even in the 60s when Dr King was around. Yeah sure, he's seen as a saint now but bk when he was alive, most whites hated him and most whites said blacks would be better off just “taking advantage of the opportunities they have already been given” as opposed to protesting and even after Dr King passed away whites said that blacks had a better chance than they did to get a good paying job.
What can you say about a group of people so utterly divorced from reality at one of the most fked up periods in American history ?
So do you think I'm going to take seriously the perceptions on group of people who have run up a bad track record ?
In every era, black folks said they were the victims of racism and we were right. In every era, whites have said the problem was exaggerated, and you have been wrong.
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