"Black people were better off during the Jim Crow era"-the coli

[Dusty Bake Activate]

I don't have to, I know history and that history wasn't that long ago. I don't think things were better back then, yet I do see where things could've been done a different way but hindsight is 20/20. I'm saying many people, particularly young people feel this way is for the reasons I stated. It mostly out of frustration, especially given the climate today.

And if you know history then you should know that living conditions for the masses of black people in the pre-civil rights movement were far worse than they are today and that is empirically proven by any metric you could imagine.

Things still suck today though. But saying they were better 60 years ago is just losing all perspective.

 

[Dusty Bake Activate]

Has this really been said on the coli? I haven't seen that. I think people have argued that had we have truly been give the equal resources in the "separate but equal" law, we would be better off today.

Yeah it has, they just don't say it in the words I used in the OP because they probably know how ridiculous it sounds, but it is essentially what has been said here plenty of times. People say things were better pre-Great Society and that integration and single mothers made black life worse than what it was before.

 

[Barnett114]

This is what you c00ns don't understand. 25,000 in the 60s is WAY MORE than 33,000 in 2016 smh

:blaff:

 

[MeachTheMonster]

So YOU are saying that adding 3% of the ENTIRE black population DOESNT move the needle? And keep in mind that we HAVENT INCUDLEd people in state prisons and local jails

Smart dumb nikkas

No. It doesn't. If 26% of black people are in poverty now, adding 3% doesn't change much. And it certainly doesn't take us back to the 60%+ of the 50s

And that number IS including state prisons and jails.

Damn dummy

 

[hayesc0]

This is what you c00ns don't understand. 25,000 in the 60s is WAY MORE than 33,000 in 2016 smh

The chart is adjusted for inflation it says in 2012 dollars you on some fox news bullshyt.

 

[havoc]

Distorted views of the past are the symptoms of poor information that are given by smart dumb nikkas in Youtube. Jim Crow era had black people in a vicious chokehold. Black inventors had to sell their million dollar inventions to white businesses because nobody wouldn't fund their projects and some of the inventors were blocked from having their invention patent. Blacks were redlined from accessing loans to build businesses, were banned from attending prestigious schools, and back in the day the military prevented blacks in the arm force from receiving benefits. Blacks were oftenly thrown in prison for a crime they didn't commit. Our people had crosses burnt in their front-yard, were kidnapped by white supremacists, and their dead bodies were found in the woods. Yet again, we have some naive black people thinking that everything was all good during segregation.

 

[Kenny West]

It fluctuates with the overall American economy. When the economy is up the rate goes down, economy down poverty rate up.

the graph contradicts that tho

Based on what you're saying the economy was in at it's best during bush's second term?

 

[MeachTheMonster]

the graph contradicts that tho

Based on what you're saying the economy was in at it's best during bush's second term?

Yes. It didn't bomb until the banks crashed at the end of his second term.

 

[Concerning VIolence]

No one's actually said the quote in OP's. title, though.

Black people in America at no point have ever been "better" off.

 

[ThatTruth777]

I don't think they meant it in that way, its more so towards ownership

 

[Mr swag]

No. It doesn't. If 26% of black people are in poverty now, adding 3% doesn't change much. And it certainly doesn't take us back to the 60%+ of the 50s

And that number IS including state prisons and jails.

Damn dummy

Notice how they are quick to name call but do not provide any links

Mr swag got them tap dancing

"Oh Massa takin REEL gooo care of us sir"

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Notice how they are quick to name call but do not provide any links

Mr swag got them tap dancing

"Oh Massa takin REEL gooo care of us sir"

What link? It's basic math.

 

[Just like bruddas]

Yall nikkas are tragic . It's fukking Saturday

 

[D-NICE]

So let me get this straight, the average household income has only increased from 25K to 33K in 50 years (which is not that much before or after). Do you honestly feel because we have hit some above some arbitrary line on what is considered impoverished ( and I'm estimating 30K), we are in a substantially better position? Sounds like we make just enough to not have acces to certain benefits but poor enough to still be in a fukked up position.

 

[Kenny West]

Yes. It didn't bomb until the banks crashed at the end of his second term.

ah I see the fallout didnt happen until obama's term? That would explain the updtrend at the end but not the the downtrend during bush. The economy was better during clinton iirc