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Why are people so Anti-Black American?

Genuine question
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JP1119 · 36-40, M
Well think about it. History of slavery based on race, then another century of Jim Crow. They justified all this at the time by teaching that the black race was inferior. So now that it has become mainstream to believe that blacks and whites are equal, as it should be, it follows that whites are morally indebted to helping blacks recover (money, education, jobs, families, etc.) at the expense of other whites if necessary.

The other part of it is that as a result of the history of official and unofficial slavery and discrimination, blacks are generally poorer and less educated and are incarcerated at a higher rate, etc.; and one thing that seems to be fairly unique about the US compared to other industrialized nations, if in fact you still consider the US an industrialized nation, is that there seems to be a strong, prevalent belief among the middle and lower classes that poor people are lazy, and the government helping lazy poor people is the reason [i]I’m[/i] not doing as well as I’d like to be. The wealthy here seem to have succeeded at turning the attention away from stagnant wages while cost of living has continued to increase.