Matrix Morpheus

So... They were forcefully taken by the victors of their tribal warfare instead of the white supremacists who merely bought them?

I'm not understanding your point.

I'm just saying that it wasn't white supremacists who forcefully took them, as most people believe.

Fair enough, but sometimes people say that and then say "so the white supremacists weren't so bad" afterwards which is, of course, nonsense.

True, they were both bad. There really is no good in this situation. I'm just dissapointed that still, 100 years after it was outlawed and 50 years after we reached full equality, people are still screaming racism. My point is, look at how the people in 1960 acted, and they got equality, now people are rioting, stealing and destroying everything because they didnt get their equality? I'm still confused.

Ok, I see the problem here:

We didn't get equality, and there are several demographic indicators that we can measure to demonstrate that things are still not equal. The 1960's were an important step but not the end of the story by a long shot. What we got was the groundwork - the foundations of equality, nothing more than that.

Riots are symptomatic of an unbearable problem in a community that isn't being addressed. In the case of the recent protests in Baltimore and Ferguson, there's a very real problem with the relations between community and the police - I'm not interested in having that discussion here, but if people are willing to riot over it, there has to be something going on that hasn't been addressed in a very long time.

500 years of institutional slavery followed by 100 years of institutional discrimination does not go away with 50 years of saying "there, fixed it. You should be equal now. Your problems are strictly your own from now on."

There still is no equality.

i hope maybe some day you won't be so f**king stupid

*sigh*