Something I have never heard a black person say

[rpannier]

"Blacks had it better before desegregation."
I have heard this from some people, that bigot, fraud and clown Phil Duckcall and his ilk and now the Breitbart financier Mercer has reportedly said the same thing (according to a lawsuit filed against him)

If it was so great before desegregation, how come I never hear anyone who is African-American, Asian, Hispanic, etc echo this sentiment?
You would think if things were so damned, spanking fantastic that there would be a whole slew of people screaming it from the rooftops.

Sounds kind of arrogant (paternalistic) to me.

(Maybe someone here knows someone who has expressed that sentiment)

[Phoenix61]

1. I heard a clansman I had the unfortunate

experience of talking to say things along those lines. But no, it wasn't better for anyone under segregation. The first heart surgery was performed by a black surgeon. How many inventions have been lost due to segregation due to those individuals never being afforded the opportunity to share their gifts with the world?

[rpannier]

2. Yep

Makes you wonder how much we never got because of people being locked out and shunned
I am waiting from phrenology to make a come back with this administration

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. So true.

Sometimes I try to imagine what this country would be like if instead of enslaving people from Africa, they'd had the chance to move here voluntarily, like people from other parts of the world.

I suppose, among other things, there'd be far fewer of them, but imagine a country without the blight of slavery, where people from Africa had simply had their own immigrant experience, like all other groups.

That's not to say it would be totally wonderful here, but I can't help but think about this.