(09-07-2019 12:53 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 12:46 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 12:29 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 12:05 PM)Rice93 Wrote:  

(09-07-2019 08:35 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  When I was young, the public schools were segregated. The law of the land made this so.

WhenI was young, there were separate waiting rooms at bus stations, doctor’s offices, etc. the government enforced this.

When I was young, many companies did not hire blacks. OK with the government.

When I was young, blacks could be murdered, and the police did not care.

Now I am old, and all this has changed. But because there are still individuals who do not toe the racial line, Lad and 93 think this is still an oppressive country to black people. It is insinuated.

I see the difference in these and a hundred other ways. Young black men have never had to step off the sidewalk to let a white man pass. They have never had to go around to the back door of a restaurant to get a meal. Yet they feel oppressed. Maybe they should talk to the old people.

Nobody has argued that things are not better today than they were in the 1950s. That doesn't mean that racial injustice is no longer a problem, though.

I guess that to you paying, even at the worst, the league minimum of over half a million dollars is proof positive of the depths of the horrors of racial injustice.

Now, looking at the vast majority of NBA players, and regardless of their race, I doubt more than a quarter of them could command 50k a year in a working year outside of the sport. I doubt half of the NBA players as whole would command anything more than 30 per cent above minimum wage if not for the NBA.

Yet somehow, paying them a league *minimum* yearly salary that is roughly 10x the average salary of the United States is not just 'injustice', but 'racial injustice' to boot.

You are always good for jabberwocky type leanings.

Yet you maintain that and tell someone else that their point of view that racism is *not* the overarching pernicious construct in the present day is somehow out of touch with literally even the 'far right'.

Good god.

My point was that if I were a black NFL athlete I would look at the racial composition of my fellow players and then look at the racial composition of the front offices/ownership and feel like something is rotten in Denmark.

Aren't owners and front office people defined by more than just skin color or 40 time?