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darkbuster posted...

Those things were not some "super long time ago, in the mystical before times" events. I know a lot of people feel like the Civil Rights movement was a long time ago, but I'm pretty sure most of us have parents old enough to remember things like integration & the marches in Alabama as the government sicced dogs & loosened fire hoses on the protests there. I'm sure a few here still have grandparents who can give you a first hand recount of the times. We have Bernie Sanders, a politician who was literally right there for MLK, & he's still alive. The Civil Rights movement is still within living memory. The US has compensated for almost every group it wronged, so why is it always so complicated for Blacks?

Ruby Bridges, the first person to integrate American schools is only two years older than my mother. Both of my parents were the among the first to integrate their middle schools and faced white mobs of parents and students and literally had to fight their way into school every day for a year, this was late the 60s early 70s. They grew up under Jim Crow segregation, if you were black and was on the white side of town you had better be tending to somebody's lawn or doing housekeeping service, this persisted well into the 70s. The notion that this is all ancient history of yesteryear is just odd.

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