How can you be considered "free" if you are bound to submit to someone else's legal system?
Because they are free to leave and choose any other society to live in. They're also free to vote to to change the "legal system" and/or anything else in the society they're currently in. They're also free to say anything they want. America and Canada are free countries and nobody's forcing you to stay. Whatever the law of the land is, at this point it is what it is, even though it's constantly evolving. The human world isn't perfect, but you don't get any "free-er" than having an equal say in your country and the freedom to come and go as you please. Even "if" the law of the land was inherently "racist" or prejudiced (
in the States it kinda is with gay rights), no one has to submit to anything because they are free to go.
How can you say that my claim that the slaves weren't truly freed is rediculous? Free in theory, yes, as long as they submit to another nation's laws. Real freedom would entail being able to craft their own flag, their own legal system, their own economic system, etc. If black people decide to become communist, for example, they may be subject to assassination at the hands of the american government, such as Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
They are every bit as free as the so-called white people that are largely responsible for forming America, to go to another land and commit genocide and/or whatever else it takes to seize control and craft their own flag, their own legal system, their own economic system, etc. It's not like "white people" were born inherently free and everything landed in their lap. But everyone born in North America is more or less as free as any humans on the planet today. So-called "black people" are free to come to Canada and not only join our many current communist parties or form their own, but they are also free to vote for them at the federal level. And if your description of a genocidal America is even remotely accurate, then they will have no problem quickly gaining full citizenship here.
Humans in general don't even have the right to claim ownership of the land and enslave and murder animals and destroy the landscape. It's something they do by choice at the expense of everything in their path (including other humans). You may want a specific group of humans to be free to be as guilty as the rest for taking what they want, but they already are as free as others to do so since it's a self-created "right".
And what about Oscar Grant, the young man killed by the BART cop on New Years, 2009. He failed to make it home. Can't blame the cop, though, for Grant's failure.
When you blame the actions of a single person on an entire race, whether or not that single person was motivated by racism them self, you are being truly racist. Especially when it comes to the wide range of enthicities that fall under the banner of "white".
That kind of police brutality happens regularly in Canada and society in general condemns it. A man in this Province was arrested for drinking a beer outside a hockey rink and in the jail cell block at the local police station while unarmed and face down, an officer shot him in the back of the head. Is that an indication of the lack of true freedom that [insert race of choice] has in our society?
As long as a person is lost in a skewed world view that pits specific races against each other, they'll never be free of the racist society of their own creation.
