You're making it seem as if Black-Americans are in a worse position than other groups of people. Spare me your crocodile tears, countries like Rwanda experienced a fucking genocide 20 years ago and now they're miles ahead of their neighbors in development. Somalia was on an equal footing with South Korea back in the 1960's but look how far they've surpassed us since. A generation ago, no one ever thought of categorizing China or India as legitimate world powers, but a lot has changed since then.
What...exactly are you talking about? Like what kind of false equivalency BS is this? Black people in America can't have distinct socioeconomic issues that plague their communities...because a once genocide-prone nation like Rwanda is seeing breaths of success? Yeah the world changes; we know that and succumb to world politics by and large. Has nothing to do with the marginalization of the African American man in his own country. The scope is entirely North American with break periods of crossovers to other developed nations. We're contrasting African Americans to their white counterparts and the opportunities that they should be striving for. You're essentially saying people who live in a developed world have complete agencies to fix their surroundings without help because African countries don't have to fear contaminated water anymore. Lunacy.
Black Americans have the benefit of living in a country where extreme poverty is non-existent, where educational opportunities are unmatched anywhere else in the world, and where they have a $1 trillion dollar purchasing power (more than countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia).
Again, not entirely sure why you're making this intangible argument. It's a false equivalency. We know they absolutely do NOT have the same access to education that many of their white peers have, and we know the cycle of poverty they are in leave them relatively unemployed area-to-area. What is also worth noting is demographic shifts and places like the South where just about every is broke and desolate, where African Americans make up a hefty percentage.
You're referencing slavery while neglecting to mention the fact that AA's had MUCH lower homicide rates when Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were still alive, and this was at a time when Black Americans were much poorer and received far more discrimination than they do in 2017. If slavery is to blame for these gang murders, then why weren't these patterns more obvious 50 years ago when the Black-Americans were closer to slavery times than today?
Um...Yeah? That's kind of the crux of my argument. They thrived with competent leaders who genuinely had the intelligence and leadership credentials to lead them and generally lost those at the exact same time they were finally given full rights. Their highest peaks of homicide and deaths were way higher in the transition period of the 60s into the 70s and were at an all time high as they entered the 80s. And no they weren't MUCH lower during the 60s. Their better periods were well before Martin Luther King's time, and a few break periods in the 2010s where overall crime has been much lower throughout the entire country.
https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/htus8008.pdf
Jim Crow didn't evaporate in the south, and most of those areas fought tooth and nail to avoid giving adequate access to proper schooling to a group of people now forced to compete against their white peers.
We're relatively tame in comparison to those numbers, and coincidentally those statistics came at the tail-end of the assassinations of their prominent leaders and the moment they were given full-rights. Imagine finally receiving the rights you deserved, and the leaders who organized it all were all gunned down before they came to fruition. Now imagine you went to war, worked menial jobs, and the tech industry began to boom and yet somehow you have virtually no educational background required to compete, have had a history of racism to contend with (because you know they literally were second-class humans a few years before and that doesn't evaporate). And to top it off your country decides to enact some ludicrous war on drugs program and institutes capitalistic, trickle-down economic drivel knowing full well the poor do not perform well in those conditions.
You're grossly oversimplifying a pretty fucked up issue for a reason I can't really fathom.
