West Philly Patriot
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Hold it against meaning that I don't hold anyone alive today responsible for something that happened to my ancestors a century and a half ago. I understand my history and respect my ancestors for what they went through, but the fact that someone else a few branches back on my family tree went through some terrible things doesn't give me any stake in it. Trying to co-opt their suffering to make some point over how terrible I have it today because I'm not as rich as I'd like to be would just be disrespectful to them.
To each their own, though. There are plenty of people of Irish descent who don't have a problem with that, and clearly there are people like Spikes who don't think it's an insult to their ancestors to compare 'only' making millions of dollars to the life of slavery that they went through. I think he and anyone like him is a dip**** for making that comparison, but clearly his standards are different.
The civil rights movement was 50 years ago. There are people alive today who fought for and against equality. My grandmother went to rally's in NYC. That's one generation.
All that is a result of slavery. If blacks were equal from the get go than that's not the case. When it all ended, They didn't get on a boat and cross the ocean for a new life they moved down the road and were tormented.
But again there are things happening today that are a clear result of the genesis of blacks in this country. Namely the demonizing of black youth.