> "Yes because they didn't immigrate. They were ripped from their homes."
Events that occurred well over a century ago. None alive today were "ripped from their homes"; they were born and raised in the US and most know next to nothing of their former homelands.
And immigrants are ripped from their homes as well; they may have chosen to leave their homeland but they are bereft of all they knew.
Yeah...yes. Immigrants have zero time to develop a strong local culture; they have to assimilate on the fly. Yet many of them go on to build successful families and wealth.
People can keep making excuses but they will only sound thinner and thinner as the decades go on. (The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified one hundred fifty five years ago; the Civil Rights Act, fifty-six.) Don't think that immigrants and other minorities aren't noticing these excuses and that the push for minority equality somehow applies less to them.
You are welcome to sigh and look down your nose all you want but you'd best remember that naturalized immigrants and their descendants can vote too and they're probably not going to be too keen on voting for people that don't treat them as equals.
