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Originally Posted by kerowo
So you don't have any empirical reason to state that there is less racism now than ever before? You're just going by your feels? And the way you state that makes it sounds like it should mean something? What does that statement mean BB? Are things "good enough?" Should we just stop listening to those pesky minorities?
What year or years do you think this country was less racist than it is today? Surely you don't expect me to go through and compare every year in our countries history to today.
I am not going by feels. Slavery, public hangings, burning crosses, white and black water fountains, Jim Crow laws, "separate but equal", black people couldn't vote, and MLK got shot because he wanted equality all happened in our history. If you are talking about more recent years I ask you to do your own research. Do you think people say racial slurs now or x number of years ago. Do you think there is more or less recrimination in things like job interviews and housing than x years ago?
Of course things aren't good enough. As I've said 10-15 times when making this point there is still a lot of room for improvements.
"Should we just stop listening to those pesky minorities?" : stop trying to project your misguided vision of me on me.
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Originally Posted by einbert
I hope this isn't news to you, but institutional racism isn't some new development. Black people used to deal with both institutional racism and overt racism as your quote describes. Now African Americans deal with less institutional racism than before and far less overt racism than years ago.
Last edited by bahbahmickey; 02-23-2017 at 12:34 PM.