What's the point?

I've had these redditors tell me black people couldn't own property until 1964. Literally, the 1964 Civil Rights Act doesn't do that because black people could always own property in America. Hell, prior to the Civil War, blacks could actually vote and hold office in some parts of the country, it just wasn't a nation wide thing. Also, some blacks owned slaves.

Normally I'd have to show them one of the single most famous pictures of Malcolm X ever taken and explain that it's his house, that he owned, with his gun, that he owned, after black nationalists in the NOI tried to kill him.

They never respond after that.

What's the point?

I've had these redditors tell me black people couldn't own property until 1964. Literally, the 1964 Civil Rights Act doesn't do that because black people could always own property in America. Hell, prior to the Civil War, blacks could actually vote and hold office in some parts of the country, it just wasn't a nation wide thing.

Normally I'd have to show them one of the single most famous pictures of Malcolm X ever taken and explain that it's his house, that he owned, with his gun, that he owned, after black nationalists in the NOI tried to kill him.

They never respond after that.