| Comment | Yep I never said there is an easy answer and that it wouldn't be a complex, evolving, and ongoing process. If you thought I was gonna pop off some kind of one sentence answer to how we continue to work through these legacies you are going to be disappointed.
You are just not paying attention to history if you do no think there was a meteoric rise in the quality of life and wealth of white folks during the time of slavery/colonialism. That is just an insane statement. We built a massive corporate structure, secured military supremacy, hugely expanded our sphere and formed the bedrock of the wealth that carries on to this day. That is the thing with money and power, it doesn't just stop after one person dies, that is what I meant in my first comment about the legacy of colonialism being generational.
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Irish and Greek people absolutely had privilege in America when compared to black people? They were always considered white and weren't segregated out of schools and red lined in ghettos? Did they face prejudice? Of course but to try and say they enjoyed no privilege over black people in America is just flat out wrong. Look no further than an Irish American being president before blacks had even secured full voting rights (voting rights act of 1965). |
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