Racism (Yeah, that's right: I'm callin' it!)

Lisnaholic · 09-05-2017, 08:42 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

lulz. Not even sure what nerve I touched, but I still doubt that your place in Japan gives you an understanding of race relations for blacks in the West. Just from my hole in Virginia I get to see the end result of 200 years of slavery, 100 years of segregation and Jim Crow, and years afterward of racist housing policies that kept blacks out of middle class housing. Lo and behold they're poorer per capita.

Oddly enough I watched a documentary about Section Eight Housing last night, and that backed up your statement, Batlord.

From what I've seen and read, a regular black guy trying to make ends meet or better himself has a much harder time of it:-

in the USA, as Batlord says.
in Britain, by subtler but effective discrimination, in the job market for instance.
in Africa, where standards of living are low and so many of the governments are corrupt or sporadically genocidal.