. And it's hypocritical for anyone to speak about "minorities" needing to work hard, or harder, given that fact that this country has a history of working enslaved persons to death while those who enslaved them sat on their asses and reaped the profits.
I think it's a little late in the game to fall back on the old, hackneyed, lament, about slavery in the US. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1865, so I think it's fair to say, that no one living today in the US, has ever owned another living soul. (At least no in any legal sense or mandate). Judging by the African Americans I live with, I have no use for possessing one, or are they worth "owning", in any sense of the term.
All this talk of former "slavery", completely omits the part about why our Civil War was fought, and who fought and won it. The industrial Northeast fought the South, in order to bring about the ABOLISHMENT of slavery. So, whatever you have to say about slavery, rings very hollow and duplicitous to someone from Pennsylvania. (Which as you may or may not know, is the home of the Battle of Gettysburg, and President Lincoln's famous speech on the topic).
What we do have in abundance, are the descendants of slaves.living off the "fat of the land". This in the form of social entitlements passed down from federal, state, and local governments.
The pendulum has swung completely the other direction.Instead of paying nothing and being, "worked to death", our governments now are obligated to pay people NOT to work, thereby maintaining their own jobs in the institution(s) of governmental social services. What I have personally witnessed is those living on social entitlements, dealing all forms of deadly drugs, to others less fortunate, thereby stripping them of their own pittances, and being held in high esteem for it. I believe the term would be, "gettin' ovah", or "bein' fly". I seen recidivist drug dealers being patently ignored by local police for god knows what reason.
I suppose this is because these, "poor things", are not being patently handed lucrative jobs in the tech sector. News flash, you have to be willing to graduate at least grade school, before it's tasteful to complain about "no jobs", or, "no opportunities".
I haven't heard it spoken about recently, but there was a movement for granting 6 trillion dollars, "in reparations for slavery", to the African American community. As if the government hasn't spent at least that much already on entitlement handouts.
In any case, we formed the country of Liberia to accommodate former slaves who wished to return to their native continent.
When I go outside, I see an ever and rapidly growing community of Liberians, most of whom are illegal aliens back here in the good old U.S.of A.. Oh, and by the way, don't forget to thank Liberia for me, for its newest export to this country, Ebola.
Just be thankful, I'm not in charge of anything to do with the military, I'd put a up naval blockade, and shoot down or sink, anything attempting to leave Liberian soil. The Liberians allegedly have a democratic government, let them stay there and live under it.