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Re: 'As a black person it's always racial': Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx explains
20s and early 30 year old blacks have no excuse to be sensitive about those issues.
My grandmother died recently and I went to a service held by her sisters in the deep country. She was a liberal woman who moved out of that area, but many people, as you all know, don't care to. In her sister's house are two pictures on either side of the mantle of their grandfather and great uncle (or some ****) - two civil war soldiers for the Confederacy - and in the middle a giant rebel flag. You guys act like it was so long ago, but I actually know people who are still alive who knew and met family members that fought in that war. And then, when you compound Jim Crow laws, and the fact that it didn't really start coming to an end until the 60s and 70s - one generation away for many of (or part of our generation as well), it's ridiculous and embarrassing that people think that there would not be extreme sensitivity.
20s and early 30 year old blacks have no excuse to be sensitive about those issues.