Signs of a Dying Empire

[David Horn]

(09-16-2017, 01:49 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:

(09-15-2017, 11:51 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I certainly wouldn't want to be black in 1927, especially in "Kukluxistan". Having to work unpaid overtime in honest-to-God hard labor because the Boss got an emergency order sounds like a truly-raw deal. Work the added hours or be fired? That's not much of a choice.

I wouldn't disagree with that, but I'm not sure it's worse than being black in 2017 inner cities, where you can't get a job to be fired from in the first place.

This is true in some places, but not others.  Chicago is bad; NYC is doing great.  San Francisco has no inner city poor, because they can't afford to live there.  In general, being black today -- rich or poor -- is better than it was when I was a child.