This has nothing to do with slavery. It is pointing out the reality of the situation of the time for black people (years after the emancipation of slaves).
It has a modern equivalent: the sitdown chat every black boy has with his parents about how to behave with police officers.
Oh, right. I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way, the idea of bringing the guidebook up is to make us white people feel bad about something we had no part in.
Usually it's slavery that's brought up for the same purpose.
As for the police, "Mountainspirit" is largely correct, and black people are way overrepresented in violent crime statistics in the US. Feel free to look it up. But that's a perfectly fine reason for the (well-meaning) police to pay more attention to black people in particular.
This has nothing to do with slavery. It is pointing out the reality of the situation of the time for black people (years after the emancipation of slaves).
It has a modern equivalent: the sitdown chat every black boy has with his parents about how to behave with police officers.
Oh, right. I wasn't paying enough attention. Either way, the idea of bringing the guidebook up is to make us white people feel bad about something we had no part in.
Usually it's slavery that's brought up for the same purpose.
As for the police, "Mountainspirit" is largely correct, and black people are way overrepresented in violent crime statistics in the US. Feel free to look it up. But that's a perfectly fine reason for the (well-meaning) police to pay more attention to black people in particular.