...of being a slave had to be. I also believe that there are many white and other races in the general populace either don't understand the black plight (s) or else don't give a shit. It's going to take a few more generations to make things a LOT better.

Your thoughts on the matter may very well be different.

I think many white people don't believe Blacks about the experience of being Black, and not just about the history of slavery, which is just one huge glaring example.

The Economist isn't the "general populace," it's a respected magazine which gave racism a platform. I don't think a few more generations matter one way or another. Are you suggesting we just wait for racism to sort itself out?

It's not really about DU and everyone on this forum, I'm not sure why that needed to be clarified as the immediate response. That seems overly defensive.

I wouldn't wait but I would also be aware that it's going to take many years to truly make the changes you expect. We are made to be suspicious of the other tribes...even after all these 100's of thousands of years. It's inbred in most of us.
You have to eat, sleep and make many friends with the other tribe until you feel comfortable around all of them.
You're asking to change human evolution and I'm not sure that it can be changed in such a short time. I'm fortunate. I've played with blacks, yellow or whatever during my time at CBS and on the road with bands. Many people simply don't have or had that type of interactions. ...and think about this> Even with all the interactions (Playing, riding on the bus for hours, hanging around, joking around..etc) I'm STILL not sure I understand what the hell is going on. What does that say about the people who have had little interactions with blacks. I-don't-know.

discounting of experience, competence, knowledge, truthfulness, etc. i most certainly have. a friend of mine puts it this way: white people are not used to hearing about the complexities of our lives, or our experiences: FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE. and of course, we've discussed the problem about talking about racism here, ad nauseum. i think i am as about as pessimistic as the other person who responded. i don't see HOW this can possibly change, and i sure as hell can't see how or why i should bother to try.

News of cops attacking unarmed black people.

One black person kept trying to explain things but even those who claim to be liberal were mostly dismissive

When shown a video clip of a white comedian making the same point as that black person suddenly they started to listen .

Is this the same thing??

and the white guy listens to Jon and not Jessica. It won't play outside the US, I forgot!

How the review ever got past an editor is the question now.

http://www.economist.com/news/books/21615864-how-slaves-built-american-capitalism-blood-cotton

Apology: In our review of “The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism” by Edward Baptist, we said: “Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains.” There has been widespread criticism of this, and rightly so. Slavery was an evil system, in which the great majority of victims were blacks, and the great majority of whites involved in slavery were willing participants and beneficiaries of that evil. We regret having published this and apologise for having done so. We have therefore withdrawn the review, but in the interests of transparency the text remains available only on this special page and appears below.

I've seen it on this very forum. It's similar to the fundies telling gays they 'chose' to be gay.

She tried to tell people, and they wouldn't listen.

Only when a finger pointing guy finally acknowledged some of what she was saying did they start to simmer down.

Of course by then she'd been effectively silenced. Here, anyway.

As for this sentence, all I can say is, well, no shit, Sherlock: