There seems to be this idea that African Americans were not murdered and bombed out of existence for a century before they were actually allowed to make a living; and even then, there was still de jure and de facto segregation carried out across the country. The comparison to immigrants, as if Africans are merely immigrants coming to the United States is rich too. That's the main reason they have been given much greater scrutiny and oppression; after the Civil War, there is a contingent of the population (both North and South) that did not like the idea of the "lowest human species" living along the higher species, hence things like the Black Codes in the 1870s up to discriminating against "black-sounding" names in the 2000s.Tell me were these new citizens kept as slaves for generations before hand? Were they property to be sold? Then when freed faced numerous laws and prejudices that ensured that they were not allowed to prosper?
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