Down South we know how Jim Crow works, and we don't pretend it doesn't exist. White owned businesses, which includes virtually every single bank in the US, will deny black folks from jobs/home loans/business loans/access to real estate and other things white folks take for granted.

After the Civil War, Jim Crow was invented to keep black folks trapped in a cycle of crime, poverty, and imprisonment. A lot of freed slaves were scooped up and put directly into prisons. By the letter of the law, prisoners are slaves, and a lot of descendants of slaves are kept in this cycle. Even the black schools, which were never really desegregated, put the kids in a school-to-prison pipeline.

So a lot black folks get cut off from normal society and jobs, which is why the ghetto exists. It's also where you'll find poor white folks and non-Christians, in the city at least. In these places your only hope of getting paid and surviving is often crime. The rest of the country adopted Jim Crow after the Civil War because rest of the country practiced slavery. It's just the most obvious in the South which is where most black folks live. This system was put into place to preserve the system of free labor built on millions of African slaves.

So that's how Jim Crow works and that's why people still make a big deal about segregation. All the cop killings on the news are not new developments, cops have been killing black folks freely for hundreds of years. Modern police are direct descendants of slave patrols. People in the klan will actually go out hunting black people like animals and get away with it. All this stuff is a product of slavery, and slavery never ended, it just took a different form.

There are exceptions, I have white family that did life in prison, I have non-white family that are successful in work/education. For the most part though, prisons are filled with non-white people who are legally slaves. Maybe this helps you understand why people still talk about slavery. People don't have the balls to talk about this history so it gets forgotten and washed out of people's minds. I think it's good to know and understand the history of your country, even if it can be extremely dark.

You are severely mentally ill.

You are severely mentally ill.

their actual argument is that slavery still has effects on them since their previous generations didn't have the same opportunities as whites, therefore they are still in poverty due to the after effects of slavery

for example

white family from 100 years ago was well off, or had better opportunities as white immigrants, therefore their descendants today are well off

black family from 100 years ago was still discriminated against and therefore had fewer opportunities, therefore their descendants today aren't as well off since money wasn't passed down from previous generations


kind of like how the saying "they come from old money" only applies to whites




I don't think this is a fair argument because eventually you have to step up and drive change within your community, you can't just cling on to things that happened several lifetimes ago. many immigrants come to this country not even knowing the language and not having any education, yet they still make things work

Why?

Funny thing is not a single African cries about slavery it’s only westernized blacks who failed in life.

Plenty of us don't have rich parents, boohoo, get over it

You obviously don’t know me.

Literally everything I wrote can be substantiated with evidence. If you see any flaws in this basic recitation of American history, I will gladly provide proof of what you've read.

Down South we know how Jim Crow works, and we don't pretend it doesn't exist. White owned businesses, which includes virtually every single bank in the US, will deny black folks from jobs/home loans/business loans/access to real estate and other things white folks take for granted.

After the Civil War, Jim Crow was invented to keep black folks trapped in a cycle of crime, poverty, and imprisonment. A lot of freed slaves were scooped up and put directly into prisons. By the letter of the law, prisoners are slaves, and a lot of descendants of slaves are kept in this cycle. Even the black schools, which were never really desegregated, put the kids in a school-to-prison pipeline.

So a lot black folks get cut off from normal society and jobs, which is why the ghetto exists. It's also where you'll find poor white folks and non-Christians, in the city at least. In these places your only hope of getting paid and surviving is often crime. The rest of the country adopted Jim Crow after the Civil War because the rest of the country practiced slavery. It's just the most obvious in the South which is where most black folks live. This system was put into place to preserve the system of free labor built on millions of African slaves.

So that's how Jim Crow works and that's why people still make a big deal about segregation. All the cop killings on the news are not new developments, cops have been killing black folks freely for hundreds of years. Modern police are direct descendants of slave patrols. People in the klan will actually go out hunting black people like animals and get away with it. All this stuff is a product of slavery, and slavery never ended, it just took a different form.

There are exceptions, I have white family that did life in prison, I have non-white family that are successful in work/education. For the most part though, prisons are filled with non-white people who are legally slaves. Maybe this helps you understand why people still talk about slavery. People don't have the balls to talk about this history so it gets forgotten and washed out of people's minds. I think it's good to know and understand the history of your country, even if it can be extremely dark.

I think a large factor in the victim mindset is that it becomes their identity.

Immigrants who come or came to the US and made something of themselves without any help likely had a focus and a strong idea of who they were and where they wanted to go. I believe a lot of US black people identify with being the victim because they have nothing else.

Some may not be able to link their distant ancestors to any one country in Africa and either value the continent on the whole or pull up how Blacks were also Ancient Egyptians.

Black people congregate together and sometimes the only thing they have in common is skin colour and nothing more. I think as African American culture grows it will splinter off, and they will be able to carve our their own identity aside from the trash the media and socierty provides for them, and what so many of them idolise and subscribe to. I believe that once that happens, the victim mentality will slowly dwindle as time goes on.

On the other hand, in the real world, the majority of Black people are just living life without any such mindset.