I mean... there are federal laws in place which the people who wrote the laws said on the evening news shows that those laws were written to persecute black Americans. Those laws were left on the books... for decades... and no one is making any waves to change them.

Many laws in the US are systematically written to criminalize social behaviors more associated with black communities than white communities. The point of those laws is to make otherwise lesser crimes into felony crimes, which strips the convicted criminal of their right to vote.

The American legal system is designed to persecute non-white cultural vices much harder than white cultural vices in an effort to put more voting power into white American citizens than the population share would grant.


So on the one hand, it's a meme that the US chose to use domestic terrorism that one time in the 60's.
On the other hand, while the visuals have changed, the goals behind those laws have largely not changed.