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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
At least, blacks had access to public transportation back before we scaled everything back for the auto-industry.
Check your local county lock-ups website and see how many black people are in jail for probation violations that involve driving on a suspended license.
Common sequence of events:
Impossible to find public transportation to work
Arrested for something blacks are far more likely to get arrested for
Given court fees and fines probation and suspended license
Will be put back in jail in fines aren’t paid
Drives to work because there’s no other choice
Police have a scanner that connects the license plate to a likely suspended license
Black man pulled over and arrested for driving on a suspended license which is a parole or probation violation
Likely sentence for “repeat offender” 2-5 years
That’s far worse than having a back of the bus to sit in. Today, it’s no bus at all and prison.
What good is a desegregated bus that doesn’t exist?
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^ Surely everything above except the bolded applies to white guys too. Also, it's a bit of a stretch to blame the auto industry for endorsing racial inequality or something; black people buy cars too don't they?
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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
Not really. Southerners loved their lynchings no doubt. But I’d wager just as many whites get hard as a rock watching all these police shootings. Post one of those modern day lynchings online and watch the celebration in the comment section begin. And the victims are just as dead as any lynching victim. So what’s the difference to him and his family?
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^ Just because you end up dead doesn't mean that the circumstances can be equated. Imagine two twins in Rwanda: one is struck by lightning sitting in his garden at the exact moment that his brother is hacked to death in a genocidal attack. Only at a very fundamental level can we say "They're both dead, so what's the difference?"
To make the case that cop shootings are equivalent to lynchings, a statistical approach might be better, and without actually doing the donkey work of researching, I bet there are proportionately fewer police shootings today than there were lynchings back in the heyday of racism.
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We want to see the narrative as a productive civil rights movement but like the people in the past we’re blind to our own injustices.
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^ This is true, but the injustices are at least less today; getting picked on by policemen must be terrible, but doesn't come close to the widespread slavery that used to go on.