Why can't people learn, to let things go? Options

[murderous_though...]

Ok im not trying to be racist here, I just don't understand something and I hope somebody can help me out. Why are today's African Americans still holding us accountable for slavery? Were they slaves? Were their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents slaves? No...Were any of the white people alive today slave owners? Or their parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents? No...Why get pissed off at white people about it? One of their ancestors was just as responsible for selling slaves to the whites in the first place...they were traded for sugar and rum. But you never see anybody complaining about the leader of that tribe that SOLD them like a friggin piece of fish....WE'RE ALL HUMAN BEINGS!! Don't get me wrong, im completely against slavery, but stop whining about something that didn't even happen to you. Now, the Jews and Palestinians...It all started way back when with Jacob and Esau...Jacob took Esaus birthright and blessing because of trickery, but after about 14 years, Jacob came back and Esau forgave him (Sparks notes version, k?) Jacob went on to make the Jewish nation, and Esau the Palestinians...why are they still fighting over land? Both had ancestors that believed in the same God, and the differences were reconciled before even Jesus was alive...can someone tell me why they're still fighting? (sorry for such a long post)

[ComradeRed]

You're playing semantics. Just because four people out of how many white people in the US killed a black man doesn't mean society is institutionalized against black people. If anything, racism and hate groups like the KKK are most prevalent in parts of the country that have the LEAST power in national politics (i.e. West Virginia), so hate crimes are a fringe abnormality, not institutional racism.

Also, the Supreme Court could be wrong, you know. There was that Dred Scott thing after all. A black person who lives in the same school district as a white person recieves the exact same public school education. QED there is no causal race discrimination.

Correlation is not causation! Blacks going to worse schools isn't even strong correlation; it's weak correlation -- strong correlation must control for all variables. And even then it wouldn't be causation -- otherwise I could claim that a reduction in the number of pirates is what is causing global warming.

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Oops...I thought I was deleting the content of the last post. My bad!