How old is that video? I'm getting a definite mid-'90s vibe...
I hear about different treatment the same as I'm sure most people do, but I've honestly never myself witnessed blacks being treated any worse (or awkwardly better, say under equal opportunity laws) than whites. Maybe it's just the area I live in. Hispanics maybe, if only because Mexicans still tend to hold stereotypical jobs and many adults don't seem to care much for learning English.
If one person stood in that video, I would think it obvious that woman would have drilled them on how they could possibly think blacks were treated equally when she makes a job of studying situations where they're not. Having said what I did above about not witnessing any of it, I wouldn't stand simply to avoid being put on the spot, lol, but then I'm the shy quiet type that's always hated speaking in front of people.
Interesting anecdote... I was once pulled over and my white friend was asked if he was in a gang because he happened to be wearing all red gym clothes. I had never heard of gang activity in my city.
As for the discovering America thing, can that even be proven now that so much time has passed? You can read history reports from anywhere, but how do you know what you can trust when no one alive today was around back then? Furthermore, what's it matter who did the discovering? Someone did and here we are today. Personally I've never cared for the past (or giving any one person any sense of greater importance than any of the rest of us), it's all just more or less interesting stories to me.
I hear about different treatment the same as I'm sure most people do, but I've honestly never myself witnessed blacks being treated any worse (or awkwardly better, say under equal opportunity laws) than whites. Maybe it's just the area I live in. Hispanics maybe, if only because Mexicans still tend to hold stereotypical jobs and many adults don't seem to care much for learning English.
If one person stood in that video, I would think it obvious that woman would have drilled them on how they could possibly think blacks were treated equally when she makes a job of studying situations where they're not. Having said what I did above about not witnessing any of it, I wouldn't stand simply to avoid being put on the spot, lol, but then I'm the shy quiet type that's always hated speaking in front of people.
Interesting anecdote... I was once pulled over and my white friend was asked if he was in a gang because he happened to be wearing all red gym clothes. I had never heard of gang activity in my city.
As for the discovering America thing, can that even be proven now that so much time has passed? You can read history reports from anywhere, but how do you know what you can trust when no one alive today was around back then? Furthermore, what's it matter who did the discovering? Someone did and here we are today. Personally I've never cared for the past (or giving any one person any sense of greater importance than any of the rest of us), it's all just more or less interesting stories to me.
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