a lot of the exact same things people are talking about in this discussion were being said in the 18th century.
I... didn't know that. Whoa. Still, I'd take your optimistic analysis; I certainly hope we're moving forward, however slowly...
As for comparing today and the '50s... I don't know. My gut instinct is to agree with you, it does seem less overtly violent now than then. Though I don't want to deny the pain and horror of today's racism, either. I guess it's an argument for, as you say, dragging of compatriots... so that, god willing, our children will look at us someday the way I look at my parents, horrified, when I try to imagine that, no, really, Jim Crow was a fact of life for my dad in his childhood.
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I... didn't know that. Whoa. Still, I'd take your optimistic analysis; I certainly hope we're moving forward, however slowly...
As for comparing today and the '50s... I don't know. My gut instinct is to agree with you, it does seem less overtly violent now than then. Though I don't want to deny the pain and horror of today's racism, either. I guess it's an argument for, as you say, dragging of compatriots... so that, god willing, our children will look at us someday the way I look at my parents, horrified, when I try to imagine that, no, really, Jim Crow was a fact of life for my dad in his childhood.