The problem with just forgetting the past, as Sawz apparently would like, is that the past still haunts us...

*Black people are suject to greater per capita incarceration

*Black people are disporportionately put to death for crimes

*Black people are less educated than whites

*Black people suffer from dsiporportionate poverty

*Black people are disporportionately murdered than whites

Yes, more inconvient truths with which to deal!!!

Now the white supremists have their theories on why the above list is reality... They say that white people are superior...I don't buy that and most Americans don't either... I hate to kerp carping back to the retelling the story from the perspective of the truth... Why is it that the United Sates cannot bring itself to say that slavery and Jim Crow was wrong and profusely apologize for it and to look at ways to correct the damages done to black people as a result of slavery and Jim Crow??? Is that asking too much???

I guess it is because whenever anyone brings it up we get the same ol' worn out "Why should I be held responsible for what my grand daddy did???"

That isn't the point... The point is that these same folks enjoy the wealth that was created on the backs of black folks... How do you think the railroad was built??? Or bridges??? Or highways??? Or court houses??? This was and still is infastructure that is part of American wealth... It was disporportionately built with black labor... Yeah, inconvient truth...

Thisd ain't no alien baby... This is millions of black people still being born int poverty and crime and in neighborhoods with falling down schools...

I mean, this is where the discussion begins... Not with alien babies or white middle class sensitivity groups...

And guess what, folks... I know ya'll think I'm like this stuck record but until that discussion occurs and we are all on the same page in the game plan book then we have not moved forward but just treading water...

Yes, an inconvient truth...

There's a reason that black males are incarcerated 5 times greater porportionately than whites...

We can have all the discussions in the world but without understanding our history, we won't get anywhere becuase we won't have that perspective that screams at US, "There are reasons for this!!!"

I mean, how do you fix something without having an understanding how it got so broken???

And personally, I am sick of that grand-daddy alibi... It is thoughtlesss, racist, ignorant and cruel...

Bobert