[Kinnard]

Do you think any of this has to do with the fact that it was illegal to teach Blacks to read and write.

Do you think any of this has to do with the mental trauma of enslavement.

Do you think the Emancipation Proclamation or the 13th Amendment make all the bad things go away.

Ubiquitous discrimination grinds on the soul. Do you blame the oppressed for being ground down?

[douche]

We're at least two or three generations away from any of this. Hell, slavery's been abolished for five generations. Five generations ago, my family was poor-as-a-churchmouse country bumpkins (still are, by and large). They didn't have any education, and they got drafted to fight in a war they didn't give a tinker's damn about to fight and die on Little Round Top and a dozen other places in Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, and many of them died.

[Kinnard]

My Grandmother's Grandmother was a slave and my Grandparents fled the segregated South where lynchings were common.

Ever see any of that horrifying Civil Rights Movement footage? A lot of those people are still alive. The victims and the perpetrators. All those people protesting the integration of schools, throwing things at harmless black children? Still alive.

[DanBC]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

Started 1934, continued to at least the 1970s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching

> Nearly 3,500 African Americans and 1,300 whites were lynched in the United States between 1882 and 1968, mostly from 1882 to 1920.

(Someone born in 1968 is 46 / 47.)