(09-07-2019 08:22 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  I think that 93 and Lad will continue to consider America an oppressive country until every instance of prejudice by any individual is completely eradicated.

*sigh* Can I say that there is significant racial injustice in America in 2019? And therefore there remains significant oppression of certain people in America in the present day? This "oppressive country" thing is (again) confusing.

Quote:No wonder they hate the slogan “Make America Great Again. It’s the “again” part they hate. In their view, it was never great, was always oppressive, and still is oppressive.

Thanks for putting words in my mouth. I don't believe them but it definitely sounds like Tucker Carlson has told you what all liberals think.

Quote:I don’t consider it oppressive anymore, largely because I see black people with opportunities and rights they did not used to have. I see the eradication of state-sponsored racism in this country, but they insist the country is oppressive because it had not been eradicated in the hearts and minds of every citizen.

I don’t consider the isolated incidents of blacks being shot by cops without cause to be indicative of state sponsored oppression, but as outliers. IMO, they do not indicate a systemic racism.

I know a lot of black people who disagree with this.

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I don’t know where you have to go in this country today to find a “colored” waiting room, or a “colored” restroom, or a “Lcolored” drinking fountain. I guess 93 and Lad do, though.

Rice University Stadium in the late 1980s/early 1990s? Not familiar with any now, FWIW.

Quote:I was born into a society that routinely oppressed blacks. But over the years, I have seen that change. This society, as a society, does not oppress them anymore. Sorry, 93, I will just have to go with the evidence of my eyes.

I will go with my black friends who tell me that they feel differently than you do.

Quote:If I have attributed anything to Lad and 93 that they did not actually say, they “insinuated” it.