Debate: is life better today than it was in the early 1900's
Side: yes

Well, according to your previous posts, nothing has changed and blacks are still second class, that's why they are excused for making racist remarks while whites are ostracized for the same, remember? Please stop contradicting yourself. Nothing has changed? Segregation has ended. Interracial and interfaith marriages are legal. Minorities may work as more than labourers, and own successful businesses, and work in politics.In the 1900s if a black man tried to run for president, the most tolerant people would probably say, "I don't think coloureds should have so much power." The typical person would say, "A nigger for president? Not in this land!" and the most violent would try to lynch the man as an example to keep other "niggers" in line.Now we just have fringe racists that we mostly ignore because they lack power, and we use policies like affirmative action to offset the advantage that white males have in the nation as a majority.Anyways, I contend that blacks were better off 100 years ago, despite not having every single right that whites possessed. Blacks are now the victims of liberal programs which have them warehoused in inner-city projects that resemble Third World countries. Blacks are more angry than ever at whites thanks to liberal propaganda which has instilled in them a "victim consciousness" far more effectively than having separate toilets ever did. Do you know how the ghettos formed? When blacks and minorities moved into neighborhoods, whites would leave the area in a phenomenon known as "white flight."As for your statement that blacks were better off 100 years ago. I don't really care to address such wanton stupidity.Where do you get this shit? There was the occasional lynch mob, sure, but you are totally blowing things out of proportion by stating that it took the place of big government and made everyone miserable.Back in those old days the Ku Klux Klan had a grip in the southern states in particular, and it was common practice to put blacks into their place as second-class animals. They would ride in nights, assault and murder blacks in order to intimidate the minority and keep it in fear. In those days if you were black, you were second-class, and if you tried to stand against this in any way by voting or acting equal with white men or women, you would be retaliated against, probably murdered.Anyways, there are now FAR more blacks in prison per capita than any time in history. Get an education.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingroup_bias http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Restorff_effect They were not illegal because it would have been thought a strange idea to violate the Constitution by making a plant illegal.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reefer_madness http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_States These are examples of how the sentiments of the time so long ago mirrored what we see now with other drugs.But you can die from cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and a host of other diseases which have absolutely SKYROCKETED in the last 100 years...SKYROCKETED.I'd rather die from "cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes" than smallpox or tetanus. Do you even know what these are? The first covers your body in sores, the other excretes a toxin into your muscle tissue which causes it to contract permanently, meaning that you die in a contorted and painful position.