Look, you’re looking at the trees and can’t see the forest. It’s not a time hop. In that 150 years Blacks went from capital to capitalist with a proclamation. The very people who aimed to help them figure out how to cope with it were killed and the narrative usurped. We ultimately received gestures instead of what was owed. Then we were psychologically terrorized into acceptance via violence and violent organizations. 

I have family members in their 80’s and 90’s. In their lifetime it was illegal for blacks to know how to read/ write, walk in the front doors of white owned establishment, address a white person by their first name, look a white woman in the face, marry a white person, attend a white church, vote, own a house in certain neighborhoods, or use anything labeled “whites only”. 

I grew up with a grandmother who was so light skinned she could pass for white but chose not to and therefore suffered from “uppity nigger” syndrome. She taught me to be proud of being black but to not trust whites because they’ll work with you and not have you over for dinner. I don’t believe that today but it’s a testament to 150 years not being so far away. 

My mom told me about being in the 7th grade before having a white classmate and how it was dangerous to befriend them because they could lie and have you killed without recourse. She had classmates who went shopping with white girlfriends who shopped lifted and blamed their black friend next thing you know the black girl went missing. 

I’m not a victim but it’s wild that you don’t understand how 150 years ago easily bleeds into the way people relate to the world today. Thanks for the conversation though, I appreciate you. 

 Yes thanks for the conversation vary enlightening