The author of this poem went to great lengths to show his racism. It reminds me of a post, probably on Reddit, of a similar racist nature. Just when it's going in the other direction it's clearer.
The post was by a man, supposedly white, who had to pull his child or children from private school because he could not pay for it. His frustration was based on the fact that his taxes were higher than the school tuition, and that another student at the school, a black student, was having his tuition paid by the government. He implied that he was paying for another person's education, and could not afford his own child's education. He saw the same dichotomy as that expressed in the poem, in the other direction.
He could be expressing the generational frustration of being black in America. When things are so segregated you feel you are looking across at a different country landing on the moon, you might write such a poem.
> He could be expressing the generational frustration of being black in America
I’m sure that’s how the racist young Republicans would defend themselves too. It’s hard being a young man in America today.
It's safe to assume that racist young Republicans contribute more to the difficulty of being black in America than vice versa. What's your point?
> It's safe to assume that racist young Republicans contribute more to the difficulty of being black in America than vice versa
If racism follows “eye for an eye,” sure. I don’t think most people feel someone being discriminated at when young is excused from being racist when older. If that is the case, everyone who had any poverty in their childhood is off the hook for horrible behavior. That isn’t true, at least for most voters anywhere.
You gotta be completely out of touch with reality to compare a black man who grew up in the Jim Crow era and was living through the civil rights era to thin-skinned white kids who grew up in the suburbs. What a speed-limit IQ take.
> to compare a black man who grew up in the Jim Crow era and was living through the civil rights era to thin-skinned white kids who grew up in the suburbs
I’ll stand by it. Frustration is genuine. Using it as an excuse for racism doesn’t have an obvious reason to scale with distress.
If you think I’m saying the input horror is similar, I’m not. But there isn’t a law of proportionality for racism. If you think being racist is okay because something in your past excuses bad behavior, I disagree with qualification.