You didn't give one reason that actually answered my question. So the answer is no, poverty doesn't make people kill each other...You are familiar with the history of the mistreatment of Black people in this country, right?
Our entire history here is the legacy of being stripped and remade in the image we were told that we were. The things imprinted upon us 400 years ago carried over generation after generation, century after century...
It doesn't just disappear because it's 2024 when we are barely 60 years from school integration; less than that for neighborhood integration; and only 160 years removed from enslavement. The 90-100 years between abolition and the Civil Rights era reinforced the shaping of us as a people, they just couldn't legally enslave us...
I'm not a blame the white man type, but it's completely embarrassing to me that too many of us look at what we are dealing with today, and show complete ignorance in what led us here...
Perpetuating violence against each other? That is a learned behavior and is historical record. These learned behaviors don't just disappear when it's succeeded century over century...
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