Again, with respect, could not disagree more.
Most of the research suggests overwhelmingly that structural disparities exist today and were born in historical oppression (research, not hypothesizing). Jim Crow, for instance, ended in 1967 (in my lifetime), Mass Incarceration is happening NOW and has depopulated communities of color for the last 30 years with little signs of letting up (our current AG has doubled down many times since coming to office), there has been a war on “urban” public schools being waged for the last 20 years by groups intent on silencing the voices and political power of people of color. And let’s not forget gerrymandering and voter suppression (more recent examples).
You can add words from a philosophy text to almost anything and make it sound more impressive, but you are going to have a hard time getting around the evidence (and if you want to go crazy we can take it Derrida, Zizek, or Foucault if you want).
Anyway, as for evidence…
American Apartheid (long-view sociological study of the history of real estate discrimination against people of color in the good old USA).
The Color Of Law (same but law).
When Affirmative Action Was White (same but employment)
I could go on for days (that is just off the top of my head), but perhaps this will be enough:
http://www.sentencingproject.org/newsletter/
“African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons across the country at more than five times the rate of whites, and at least ten times the rate in five states.”
Seriously, all meant with respect, we can agree to disagree.
Oh, and as for Pre-Colonial Africa, one of my degrees was in International Relations with an emphasis on African Politics, so we can have that discussion as well.
