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In reply to the discussion: Quick Question... Why should black people love white people? [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)I don't think I'll like them. But to answer your question, nothing.
I just finished reading through "A People's History of the United States" as well as "Black Liberation and Socialism" (both excellent books, btw). I don't see a single thing that whites have done as a whole to help change the situation of black people in the US. The Civil Rights Act was a sell-out that didn't really change much, there's a whole new Jim Crow (not that the old one ever really left), and time and time again, promises were broken, and black people were told to sit down and be quiet.
There hasn't been a damn thing. The closest we came was some of the socialist movements from the very late 1800s into the 1940s, and even those weren't widespread movements. Hell, at the time I think the KKK had close to ten times the number of members.
But yeah. I don't really see any reason for any minorities to trust white majorities in this country. There's been nothing but abuse and halfhearted efforts for equality that are always limited in scope and repealed as soon as possible, if not simply ignored. (And of course those efforts were almost always because of black agitation and sacrifice, too, so even those are pretty terrible examples.)