Jacob | Ginger

Student: “You believe criminality is an inherent trait to the black race.” Charlie: “NO, I don’t. They weren’t that way in the 1940s and 50s. Black America was one of the most peaceful, flourishing, economically fastest growing communities in the country. It’s not genetic.” Everyone who’s taking out of context what Charlie said about black Americans being better off in the 1940s/50s of before the civil rights act needs to watch this. He explains his position quite clearly. He’s not calling for a return to socially accepted racism or Jim Crow; he’s pointing out that at that time, blacks outpaced whites in terms of marriage rates and fathers in the homes—despite the fact that they actually had to face a great deal of legally and socially acceptable racism. So his point is that we can’t blithely pin all of the black American community’s problems today on “racism”—if they were in fact outpacing whites when racism was actually prevalent, encouraged, written into law, and widely accepted.