xxCivicxx;9488605 said:
Undefeatable;9488369 said:
I still can't get over the fact the some posters were arguing that unless they bring back slavery, things can't get worse then the present, so there is no reason to vote for Hillary to avoid Trump.
I can't decide if they are just insane (I mean literally crazy) or just breathtakingly ignorant. Cause if what they are saying is true, then things are no better now than in 1865.
Yet you still can't answer the question smh
You sure can make worthless posts though. You're really good at that
There are so many issues, but here are three.
Voting: up until the 60s, blacks didn't have a right to vote in any meaningful sense. You had states where less than 10% of blacks were registered to vote. There were so many obstacles to blacks registering and voting.
Discrimination in employment: there were fields where blacks wouldn't even try to apply, much less be hired, because it was known that they didn't give blacks those types of jobs.
Race riots: There were many race riots where whites would rampage through black neighborhoods killing people and destroying property. Some were ignited by black people allegedly not showing enough "respect" to whites.
I know what you're gonna say. You're going to try to find modern equivalents of these things, and argue that "X happens now."
But that way of arguing can't work. For it to be the case that things are no better now than the end of slavery, it must not only be true that these things still exist. They also have to be just as widespread and exist in forms just as bad. So take discrimination in employment, for example. Does discrimination still happen today? Sure it does. But it is obviously far less pervasive than it was 100+ years ago. You have folks doing jobs that our ancestors wouldn't dream of applying for. Or take voting. We know that GOP in some states have tried to suppress the black vote, for example by making it hard to vote early on Sundays as they did in NC. But are they outright turning away qualified black people who try to register to vote? No.
So what you are saying is obviously wrong. I would suggest that you go and read a book, cause going around saying this crazy shit is not a good look.