THEY SUFFER FROM NO WHITE-INDUCED OR WHITE ENFORCED DISADVANTAGES AT THIS TIME WHATSOEVER. None. Zip.
I’d back off a little from that, because while whites collectively aren’t enforcing any kind of barriers formally, individual attitudes remain in specific instances, which can still cause damage.
- HOWEVER -
Over the past half century, white America, collectively, did everything humanly reasonable to try to right the wrongs of the past. With a handful of notable exceptions, we went to great lengths to try every conceivable idea to try to erase the legacy of racism, and erase all differences. And we got almost no cooperation from black America. We tried to integrate. They wanted their “communities”. We tried to make education available. They sneered and called studying “being white”. We tried to make things color blind. They insisted that race be the central organizing principle of everything.
White America is still interested in putting this all behind us, but I really think we’ve arrived at a point in history (actually, we’ve been stuck here since the ’70s), where NOTHING is going to improve until black attitudes change, and we get some more cooperation and less sneering and ridicule.
The ball is in black America’s court. It’s been there for 40 years.
