African Americans get beat down and smacked down all the time. You can make a strong argument that things have changed considerably since the days of chattel slavery but you can also make just as strong an argument that the evolution of economic thought not moral evolution is the cause.
Many view the war of northern aggression as little more than a by product of industrialization. Slavery suppressed wages. Slavery and its attendant laws suppressed innovation.
Today as Bob Marley put it, "They say we are free only to be chained in poverty." Impoverished , miseducated blacks are routinely denied the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that every american citizen is supposed (by rule of law) to enjoy. What we find is that man made laws are selectively applied.
Despite my railings against Jay Z it can be hard to fault anyone, black white brown red or yellow who seeks a way out of this morass. Hundreds of years, millions of lives wasted to pursue a white stage or whale that doesn't even exist.
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