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Forcing Black Men Out of Society

By Matt Guest

We can even go so far as to say that whites will cheer for their favorite black athletes, but they won't necessarily introduce themselves to the new black family that just moved to their neighborhood. Too many whites, even those in positions of power who are expected to know better, have a visceral fear of black men. A walk is an aggressive strut and a normal, even contemplative frown is the beginning of "angry black man" behavior. If they knew more black men, it's logical to hope that they wouldn't feel this way and would support policies that would truly begin to destroy the rancid remnants of the slave system. We used to keep them enslaved, then we kept them in chain gangs, more recently our policies are designed to keep them locked up and away from whites, as many as possible for as long as possible. How despicable.


last updated april 2015