400 Years Of Opression - Will It End Soon?

[Warpy]

1. Probably not

But when I was young, careers for black folks were limited to mostly service jobs. Manufacturing jobs did hire black folks but only when they had to put extra people to work at some sort of crunch time. Black workers were the first to get laid off when the crunch was over.

I'm delighted to say that much has changed, although a black person in the halls of power is still newsworthy just for his or her presence.

The social oppression is going to take longer and will likely be a matter of attrition, people who lived with "separate but (un)equal" and thinking that was somehow a good thing leaving us and slowly being replaced by white folks who expect to see black faces everywhere they are. Until then, there will be too many people who see the black and ASSume the person is in the underclass, one reason the cops get away with pulling drivers over for DWB stops.

There will always be bigots of all colors, it's just part of the human condition. Over time, their numbers will decrease to the point that they won't run things to the point of sending an asshole like Trump out to run for the presidency.

Eventually we'll all be Americans.