bbauska
I do not believe the State should enact racist policies. Apparently, you disagree. We would have to just agree to disagree on that then.
Will you agree that the US did enact racist policies for many years? Lets focus on just the policies against blacks
2 centuries enslaving blacks.
Over a century of Jim Crow laws and institutionalized segregation, and discrimination in provision of services.
Uneven access to the GI Bill which built the white middle class after WWII and left black soldiers behind.
Discrimination from States in access to voting and education even after the 1964 civil rights act.
Discriminatory behavior by police and the justice system against blacks even unto today...(Freemans list...)
Now, in any situation where a person or a class of people have been wronged they have the right to sue for their damages. How were black people, who as a class had been damaged by the state for 3 centuries ever been made good on this damage?
If, having deliberately for 3 centuries, damaged a class of people....doesn't the State have an obligation to repair the damage?
Reconciliation has never really occurred in the US over the centuries because people want to avoid the notion that there should have been, and should be, some attempt by the state to repair the damage institutionalized evil did and continues to do.
When slavery was ended, it didn't repair the evil. It just ended its practice.
When Johnson cudgeled congress into passing the Civil rights act, it didn't act institutionalized discrimination. It just made it illegal. Many, especially in the in the South, resisted these laws every step of the way.
Even the attempts at providing a leg up, giving priority to access for blacks to education - didn't end the institutionalized racism.
Pretending that attempts at repairing the damage from 300 years of institutionalized racism is now racism against whites, is blithe ignorance of history. And an attempt to avoid taking responsibility for repairing the damage those centuries inflicted. I thought you were all about taking responsibility for ones actions Bbbauska? Shouldn't the State as a whole take responsibility for its misdeeds and attempt to repair some of the damage through positive actions and policies?
And frankly, it also comes across as just whining. As if white people shouldn't have to, or can't compete on a more level playing field.