• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Because they were kept poor, imprisoned, and abused until at least 1965. So the kids born in the 1950’s had the first real chance to go to college. In reality though red lining continued right up into the 1980’s, making sure black people couldn’t get access to services and jobs because they were physically out of reach from the housing areas they had been pushed into decades prior. And job hiring racism still occurs to this day. It was in the 2010’s they did a study with applications that differed only by having an “ethnic” name or a “white” name.

    So until black people can access the same opportunities as white people there needs to be support. Everyone wants to assume this shit ended in 1865 or 1965 but not only did it not, it’s still going on.

    • prosp3kt@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      So why do I have to pay what my ggparents have done to black people? I don’t think it works like this. My friend is a good example of discrimination also.

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        The victim complex of so many white people is truly fucking wild.

        Are you not already buying food anyway? No one is forcing you to do anything. But people are going to call you out for being so uninterested having an equitable society.

      • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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        4 hours ago

        What are you paying for? Is someone forcing you to pay thousands of dollars a year to fund a scholarship or something?

        And the reason they get help is because your parent’s actions (not your grand parents) prevented black people your age from getting the same opportunities you got.