The War on Drugs, the creation of ghettos, scapegoating of public assistance by attributing it to black people and abuse, racial code and dog whistling by politicians, continued escalations of force by police to a non-caring majority populace (even video doesn't help!). Bootstraps rhetoric without providing opportunity (done by design). The list goes on. To paraphrase Jesse Williams, "Don't say that things are getting better when the police can pull a drive by on a kid playing alone in a park." Tamir Rice was America's test. America failed.
All the things I've listed above are things that people blow off or make excuses for in regard to the current state of Black America. That's what makes it so ugly. Before, you knew who your enemies were. Now, when you talk about issues they blow you off and call you lazy or a race baiter or both.
Sure, not slaves. Jim Crow is dead. No segregation. No lynchings. But the blight of racism in this country continues to fester despite everything that's happened that was supposed to move us forward. The main difference is that it's done in such a way that it can be denied or done in secret instead of being just so blatantly obvious. Like I said, this guy here is a throwback.
