I do not claim to have all the answers. But my main point is that it is just a knee-jerk reaction of those on the left and in some segments of the black community to automatically attribute every social ill and bad consequence for blacks to institutional racism. I think that's way too simplistic and excludes behavioral and possibly many …
I do not claim to have all the answers. But my main point is that it is just a knee-jerk reaction of those on the left and in some segments of the black community to automatically attribute every social ill and bad consequence for blacks to institutional racism. I think that's way too simplistic and excludes behavioral and possibly many other factors.
Slavery was in fact a very grievous sin and stain on this nation. However, slavery has existed in virtually every society since the beginning of time, and continues to exist in many countries today. But the US is perhaps the only country in the history of the world that fought a civil war to eliminate slavery at the cost of 600,000 overwhelmingly white Union casualties.
I do not claim to have all the answers. But my main point is that it is just a knee-jerk reaction of those on the left and in some segments of the black community to automatically attribute every social ill and bad consequence for blacks to institutional racism. I think that's way too simplistic and excludes behavioral and possibly many other factors.
Slavery was in fact a very grievous sin and stain on this nation. However, slavery has existed in virtually every society since the beginning of time, and continues to exist in many countries today. But the US is perhaps the only country in the history of the world that fought a civil war to eliminate slavery at the cost of 600,000 overwhelmingly white Union casualties.