text: Thank you, Mr. Cooper.  People of color ARE oppressed, and all the statistics in the US support that statement.  This country was founded in racism, theft, genocide and slavery, every square inch of it.    Emmett Till, a child, wasn't viciously tortured and murdered before The Civil War, it was in my lifetime, a lifetime where the southern states still saw a lynching of some African American person every single week.    Soon after that time, Martin Luther King Jr. led a civil rights movement to end the ongoing post-Civil War economic slavery that continued into the 1960s, as well as the legal segregation that affected and degraded and diminished every part of life for African American people.  He was murdered for doing it, too.
  
  People think that this crap that started the minute that old Christopher Columbus first got here, and continued well into the 1960s, that is for 350 years, just stopped?    The ongoing bigotry toward people of color is well displayed in comments here on ADN.