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- Sep 13, 2008
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I’m not a person of color, but I like to think that if I were and kept hearing “you have equal opportunity now, please stop complaining about ‘past sins’”, yeah, I wouldn’t stop complaining either.The last Jim Crow law I found was implemented by Woodrow Wilson in 1914. I can understand wanting to go after him....but he's dead....so I don't see you having much success.
Everyone after him was, arguably, following the law. If we go after them for following the law....you'd be setting a rather frightful precedent wherein anyone who followed the law one day could be punished for it if the law ever changes.
Imagine if we outlawed abortion one day.....and the next we dug through medical records and prosecuted women who had abortions when it was legal? Do you think that would be just? Or a massive injustice?
Even worse....for any progress to occur, we would have to be willing to open ourselves to prosecution for past deeds that were once legal. I don't see a lot of progress happening after that.
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