Just heard The MIDDLE will do a spin off centering Sue Heck.......

Good for her , Love the Actress and the Charactor

You made the year statement and i added on to that for many older Blacks that grew up through it. I wasn't referring to slavery just the year you randomly chosen. Again what privilege are you speaking of besides basic rights like everyone else?

U r very ignorant.

Thanks Moe, I didn't know there was such a stark difference between Irish and Scotch-Irish. Never know that the famine was a codeword for genocide either.

The Irish definitely went through horrific persecution in their home country. One big difference is that they did not achieve that upward mobility in the same place they were persecuted, because they would have been blocked from doing so systematically. That's the point I'm getting at, is that racism is systematic and in America has been conditioned into society possibly unlike anywhere else. People think because there are no Jim Crow laws anymore that racism is non-existent but just because it's not labeled directly doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Much like how you just taught me about what was perceived as "famine" in Ireland was actually genocide, imagine someone telling you adamantly "The Irish never experienced anything like genocide, they just ran out of potatoes, it says it right there in the history book". When people say "segregation ended in the 60's, get over it", they fail to realize that just because the explicitly racist laws were taken off the books, it's not like racism was turned off like a light switch. Honestly, one look at some of the users on this forum should show you that plenty of racist attitudes persist to this day. Which are passed down and onward.

That's my thing with Trump, I don't think he's particularly racist but he is staunchly supported by and consistently panders to a racist base and I can't support that. Personally, I think he's an egomaniac who considers himself above everyone regardless, but that's almost every politician. I've said before that in my opinion the most powerful and dangerous enemy of the working/middle class in America is unbridled capitalism and corporate welfare, but people are too occupied with bullshit wedge issues and blind partisanship to come together against things that hurt all of us regardless of race.

Jerry Seinfeld's comments about Roseanne recently were pretty rich considering he supported Michael Richards to the hilt when Richards did something far worse.

Seinfeld was pretty quick to defend Richards when his revenue stream was threatened.