Originally Posted by Big D
Also, current generations of African-Americans are paying the price for past injustices. Disproportionate levels of poverty, crime, poor education and unemployment are a direct result of having been second-class citizens, not only during the slavery era, but right up until the legal activism in the '60s. Effects linger from one generation to the next, it's an undeniable fact. If your father was poor, uneducated and abused, you're going to have a poor and uneducated uprbringing - add to that the knowledge that your circumstances are due to the colour of your skin... my point is made, I think.