He echo's the point I made about Blade - but raises an interesting question.
Have we legitimately deteriorated in race-relations since 1998, when Blade was released?
20 years later, a whole new generation, and we're MORE racist? What the fuck happened?
I think there's an unfair, established advantage of "white oppression" that is backed by the government in every tangible financial, leg-up way. To ever admit that things evened out a long time ago means giving up a lot. It seriously takes a lot of work to fan the myth of current mass oppression.
I mean even look at Martin Luther King's famous speech. It was a well-organized, guarded (by white officers even) platform. I'm not saying there wasn't a lot of shit going on then (particularly in the deep south), but 5 decades later you could fill a phone book with all the black lobby (and even hate groups), exponentially more than any other race in America, including whites.
In my opinion, the movement turned from a civil rights and equality to militancy of almost an aggessive warring mindset with Farakhan's million man march and subsequent mimicked events.
On top of those points, I think there has been a many decade long mental shift from introspection and the spiritual/mental war one has against their fallen nature/the flesh, to a focus on external oppression and the demonization of those outside of the tribe defined by skin color.
Probably the biggest factors as far as I'm concerned are: black community single mother rate/fatherlessness of 70% or more:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/08/...inorities.html?referer=https://www.google.ca/
And the rejection of the Christian base paradigm of: a fallen nature, the need for a savior, the Fatherhood of God and his love demonstrated to all through Jesus self-sacrificial death, burial and resurrection (defeating sin, death and hell).
Finally, Obama's administration was marked by identity politics and the growth and strengthening of far left black and Islamic groups that seemed (accurately) as an extension of Nation of Islam and decades of unfettered power-lust and domination of American politics and culture.
Trump was a pretty mild pushback, but it's been exaggrated a hubdred-fold when in reality it's been largely reasonable.
Also, I want to mention mass props to the Christian black community and other blacks who've also noticed an unhealthy, irrational shift from civil rights and equality to one of warring, entitlement and power grabbing (extreme tribalism).
Is there fault still on the part of a small minority of whites and non-blacks? Sure. But I think a massive share of the blame leads straight back to the Nation of Islam and the end game of domination of American culture and it's political system.
