(05-29-2020, 04:18 PM)jagibelieve Wrote:

(05-29-2020, 03:58 PM)JagJohn Wrote: Again I will pose the question: when, exactly, in the history of America, did racial injustice become an "imaginary problem"?

I would guess around 1970 or so.  It certainly is an "imaginary problem" in 2020.

Thank you for answering! Finally someone with a pair.

I guess your argument is that after the civil rights movement America essentially became a place that was "legally equal", and therefore racial injustice ceased to be a problem. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I'm sure we have all seen, heard, learnt, (experienced in some cases) enough about the civil rights era to agree that there were many people in America who held strongly racist attitudes, and fought against civil rights. I imagine we can all agree on this, but I've overestimated people before, so, again, let me know if I'm wrong.

So the obvious question remains: what happened to those (many) people who held racist beliefs at that time? Did they suddenly stop being racist because the argument for civil rights won? Were they suddenly convinced that they had been wrong all along? Did they stop sharing their ideas, teaching their children, treating people differently, at that moment in time?

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