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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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If you think this injustice is applied equally to whites go see who they have locked up in your area.
The auto-industry has lobbied against public transportation all along and the results have been disproportionately devastating to black communities. Couple that with less favorable terms on auto loans.
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I bet there are proportionately fewer police shootings today than there were lynchings back in the heyday of racism.
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1) He said 100 years ago which places us just post WWI not during reconstruction.
2) When you factor in the institutional lynchings which is the disparity of our legal system the chances of falling prey are worse today.
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getting picked on by policemen must be terrible, but doesn't come close to the widespread slavery that used to go on.
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Slavery was abolished in 1865.