My question is: If the ship launched during the late 50s/early 60s, why are there black people on it whatsoever?

Society mores of the day wouldn't give me the impression that putting black people on a lifeboat would be a high priority then.

Ah, alas, if only they heeded Queen Elizabeth I when she wanted to get rid of all those "Blackamores" in England!

I got the gist, but I wanted to point out that you will be running from a place that has made SOME racial progress to a place that in many ways is still mired in the early 2oth century.

Canada is just as bad or WORSE than the United States in regards to race issues.
It just seems better because there is less dialog.

The way they treat First Nations people is atrocious.

Uruguay you say?

You are making the mistake thinking that FoxNews considers Blacks and Latinos people.

I know this is Jezebel, so I won't make the comment I want to make about this stupid woman.

I disagree: White America is flaunting the privilege it holds dear and will protect at all costs.

If you got it flaunt it. What can a Black Person do? Protest?
The White Community will just use that to further oppress and justify supremacy.

You are a lizard person sleeper agent.

You heroically agreed to have your mind suppressed, and an inferior mammalian one imprinted on your Cerebral Network Interface. You have been sent to the surface to lie in wait for the signal that will awaken your true superior reptilian mind.

Once received you will kill the human…

If we were to take the opinions of white people and average them out in the United States, I submit that you would find that they don't consider black people on the same level of human.

I think you are forgetting that he is a folk hero now in white culture, has been rewarded with hundreds of thousand of dollars for his service to the white community, is in high demand for a tell all book and speaking circuit, and finally is likely being courted to become a police shooting expert at many conservative…

History doesn't support your statement. Recent legislative history does not support your statement.

Lets be honest:

To most White Americans Black lives are worthless.

Either they are actively racist, or they like most people on earth are insular, unable to see outside of their sphere of relations (100 or so people). I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but a little girl with a sign (no matter how cute) will do…

Hello, to many White Americans black people aren't citizens. Heck to many we aren't even people.

As I mentioned the social contract for white people is working just fine. It was never meant to extend to other races in America. You will see this openly in play in the 21st century as scarcity pressure forces society to find a scapegoat for poor white males to vent their frustations on.

The social contract in America was built and protected by the oppression of black people.
Google Derrick A. Bell and Anti-Blackness. He is the best author who has covered this issue in full.

But Asians are often used as evidence that racism is made up by black people!

I DON'T UNDERSTAND!?!?!

This wasn't a hard bet to make.
White culture is driven by the racists, the allies are too few to fight them and the Passive Whites endorse the supremacists via quiet inaction.

Its always a good bet that in positions of power you will find a high number of racists in America.

This gif has been trending on Facebook among my friends after I stole it from one of Milton BERLE'S posts.

No I was implying that Asians hate black people as much, if not more than white supremacists.