Therein lies the problem

[Jolly]

30% of blacks think things have gotten better since 1963.

They should have been around in the South of 1963...

https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/4169965-sixty-years-after-the-march-on-washington-mlks-dream-has-become-a-nightmare/

[Horace]

The woke narrative is psychologically abusive towards blacks. Especially black children.

[Copper]

It might help if they had someone to blame for their troubles.

[Jolly]

Link to video

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Therein lies the problem:

30% of blacks think things have gotten better since 1963.

Yeah, that's just batshit crazy.

[Jolly]

So...70% think things have gotten worse.

Why?

And what does this do to MLK's dream?

[Doctor Phibes]

@Jolly said in Therein lies the problem:

So...70% think things have gotten worse.

My guess is that they don't actually believe that. Also, 1963 is a long time ago, most people questioned probably answered the question that was in their heads - "Have things got worse in the last 10 years?" - or however many years people actually think of when they think about "some time ago".

Also, obviously, people believe all kinds of shit. People have used a statistic that tons of people think the election was rigged to support the idea that the election was rigged. Using that argument, racism has got worse.

[LuFins Dad]

“At least in the 50s it was out there! It wasn’t hidden! Now everybody pretends that it’s fair when it’s worse than ever”

I imagine that’s the mindset

[Doctor Phibes]

Some people say that perception is reality.

Not physicists, obviously. People.

[Jolly]

Observation (at least from my corner of the world): The script has flipped. The most racist people, taken as a whole, are blacks. I think the victim role has been taught to most of them since birth and too many of them see everything through that lens, skewing perception into racism.