"I would say the holocaust was uniquely horrible. I would say the Cambodian genocide was uniquely horrible."

Did either of these happen in America? Okay then. I think I was very clear that I was talking about segregation being uniquely horrible for black people in America. Disappointed to see that I *wasn't* wrong when I suspected that the first thing you'd do is look for counterexamples. Even irrelevant ones.

It's funny, I've never seen a white person talk about how horrible slavery was when somebody brings up the Holocaust. But strangely enough, it happens all the time in reverse.

No. Lynching does not "literally" mean hanging (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching). It relates to any extrajudicial killing, usually as a form of intimidation. It's often associated with hanging, but black people were often lynched by dragging behind horses, for example, in the days of slavery. You know I write about this stuff for a living, right? I'm obviously not going to be ignorant about it. You could at least check Wikipedia before assuming I'm wrong.

Yes, I'm making assumptions about you. But they're based on what you're saying here. And more, the things your'e dodging or trying to minimise. Reading MLK, as wonderful as he was, won't tell you anything about the state if racism today. Though I'd have thought it would give you a deeper understanding than you've shown about race relations in the sixties.

Man, I'm not trying to demean you. As I said, you're just ignoring really important context. And you seem determined not to acknowledge that, even a little bit. I admit this is frustrating. I've asked plenty of questions. You just haven't answered them because they don't help you with the narrative you want to believe.

But sure, let me try some more questions:

You say I'm exaggerating greatly about mediocre success. At what point do you think employment opportunity equalised for black people and white people? What do you think, for example, of studies that show a black man with a clean record had roughly the same chances of a callback as a white felon in 2009 (https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/pager/files/annals_sequencingdisadvantage.pdf)?

Given that we can hopefully agree that during segregation and for some time afterwards, a mediocre white man would have had a much easier time getting a managerial job, say, than an exceptional black man, when do you think this part of the playing field equalised? Do you think the fact that ~86% of Fortune 500 CEOs are white men (compared to ~1% black men) is just race-blind meritocracy at work?

What makes you say that the widely quoted statistics are manipulated? By whom? And why does income matter if we're taking about the ability to get a job. I don't know if white and black women get paid the same amount for the same job. I'd be a little surprised if they didn't. But the issue is whether it's much harder for one to get a job than the other, no? Also, are you aware that white women have been largest beneficiaries of affirmative action (https://time.com/4884132/affirmative-action-civil-rights-white-women/)?

Now that you know that the last cross burning was just two years ago, can you admit that there may be a greater climate of racism today than you previously realised? Does this do anything to change your perceptions? Or do you find yourself trying to dismiss it?

Again, more interesting than the answers to these questions, (though I am interested) is your reaction to them. Is your knee-jerk reaction to try to "debunk" them instead of thinking about them seriously? If so, why? What happens if it's true that racism is still a problem that affects black people more than white people?

Is it possible that the reason you've got pushback from numerous people here, black and white, and probably get pushback most of the time when you express ideas like these, is that you're missing something?