Your arguments are hysterical. They are like the typical liberal arguments in favor of gay marriage put forward because someone has a gay son or daughter; therefore, they emote, it must be a great thing for all of society so they can relieve their completely denied shame and liberal guilt.
That horrific photo is shown again and again. If such abuse were a common thing, there would be many similar photos. But there are not.
You probably don't know this; but some men beat their wives and children, also, regardless of color.
Another fact for you to consider is a quarter of the people lynched were whites, indians or Asians. And the total number of lynchings from the Civil War to the present day was barely more than the number of people who died in a single morning on 9/11; whereas the total numbers of babies aborted since Roe v. Wade exceeds 54 million, disproportionately black children killed by their mothers.
It's really time to stop slinging the guilt. Some people denied the vote fought for the right to vote. Most people denied the vote sat on their front porch and whittled. Same is true for women's sufferage. Some people fought; most people tended their knitting.
You can't change human nature by trying to shame people any more. Human beings resist change. Always have, always will.
As for this thread, people are fed up to here and beyond with the pure wasted opportunities today's underclass pees into the gutter, opportunities some of their forebearers fought for bravely. Many of us who lived in America when it wasn't like this are fed up with crime, violence, disorder, complaining and whining, lies, distortion and racism directed at persons with white skin, forgetting entirely the hundreds of thousands of whites who sacrificed their lives in the Civil War and all other U.S. wars to give freedom to blacks as well as whites.
So stop trying to wrest the moral high ground. Race hustling is a hot mess, and if you're looking to blame someone, blame the Democrats.
Geez, stow your outrage. Here are my only three points:
1) Slavery sucked. And comparing it to indentured servitude, or “having to pay high taxes” is a ridiculous argument. I can think of few things worse than being owned by another person with no hope of freedom. And I’m really sick of hearing “well, it really wasn’t THAT bad.”
2) The people marching in Selma in 1965 had legitimate grievances. They couldn’t vote. The state was ignoring federal laws in several areas. People could be murdered by the police or civilians with no investigation done whatsoever. (REALLY murdered, not this fake Trayvon, Michael Brown crap). So I really can’t find fault with someone who wanted to peacefully march across a bridge in support of some basic rights.
3) The Black community got everything they wanted from the civil rights era.... now they just want free money and the ability to terrorize their own neighborhoods without the cops bothering them. You CANNOT link what happened in Selma in 1965 to what is going on today. Those marches were legitimate (IMHO); the ones today are not.