racism

[HejiraNYC]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

In the end, who can blame people in this regard. Black people are routinely told by the govt. and others (mostly the D party) that they are special and deserve an automatic advantage over non-black people because of a 40 year long attempt to right the wrongs of slavery, which ended in 1864. Moreover, the Civil Rights Act (designed to end discrimination) was 40 years ago. In the end, as long as one part of society gets an automatic leg up because of nothing they have done and because of nothing the other parts have done, there will be racism and resentment Yet, when any person (white or black) dares to point this out, they are lambasted as a racist.

Well, speaking of ****-stirring... are you implying that racism simply vanished upon enactment of the Civil Rights Act and that blacks are no longer a "suspect class" subject to hostile treatment by society at large? Although I think blacks in America have made great strides over the past few decades, I think that we are far from being a post-racial society, even despite the appointment of an African-American president. It will take generations before we have sorted out fully the wrongdoings and poverty imposed by a racist/segregationist society, and we are still barely a generation into the Civil Rights Era. This is going to take a looong time... probably not within our lifetimes.