Le Jacquelope
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but yet black Americans pay the price every day for what white slaveowners did to them 150 years ago.
Hell, we pay the price every day for what Jim Crow southerners did to us less than FIFTY years ago!
Lost economic opportunities we've never been able, or often been allowed to recover from?
Continuing acts of racism. (Stormfront, anyone? The KKK, anyone? Skinheads, anyone?)
Whole black cities blown off the map by white mobs. (1923 Rosewood massacre, anyone?)
Why do we have to keep paying the price for what your ancestors did?
I won't even get into what you owe the Native Americans for every moment you live on land your ancestors killed them to take...
Hell, we pay the price every day for what Jim Crow southerners did to us less than FIFTY years ago!
Lost economic opportunities we've never been able, or often been allowed to recover from?
Continuing acts of racism. (Stormfront, anyone? The KKK, anyone? Skinheads, anyone?)
Whole black cities blown off the map by white mobs. (1923 Rosewood massacre, anyone?)
Why do we have to keep paying the price for what your ancestors did?
I won't even get into what you owe the Native Americans for every moment you live on land your ancestors killed them to take...