"Very happy with this correction, I wish you'd said it before."
I mention it in the piece.
And sadly, immorality never becomes irresistible on its own. Slavery went on just fine for longer than segregation did. Even while many Americans opposed it. Heck, it still survives today in certain parts of the world. The CRA was viciously opposed b…
"Very happy with this correction, I wish you'd said it before."
I mention it in the piece.
And sadly, immorality never becomes irresistible on its own. Slavery went on just fine for longer than segregation did. Even while many Americans opposed it. Heck, it still survives today in certain parts of the world. The CRA was viciously opposed by many Americans. And it still took blood and courage and military intervention to force institutions to uphold it. A lot of very heavy balls had to get rolling before their momentum seemed "irresistible."
Perhaps my perspective is skewed, I grew up in an extremely anti-racist family. I was 10 when we moved to Virginia and I was absolutely appalled at the attitudes I encountered there.
Yes, racist attitudes persist and they will probably never go away, just as a century from now there will still be people who believe that same-sex marriage is wrong.
At least now the racists have to speak in code; Republicans can't use the N-bomb in speeches anymore, they have to talk about "quotas," my father became a Democrat in response to the Willie Horton ad.
America has a Heart of Darkness that came over on the Mayflower and which still beats in the chests of too many people, something that the most vile of us, like Trump, know how to appeal to. American slavery was just about the cruelest in history and went on a generation longer than elsewhere in the world.
"Very happy with this correction, I wish you'd said it before."
I mention it in the piece.
And sadly, immorality never becomes irresistible on its own. Slavery went on just fine for longer than segregation did. Even while many Americans opposed it. Heck, it still survives today in certain parts of the world. The CRA was viciously opposed by many Americans. And it still took blood and courage and military intervention to force institutions to uphold it. A lot of very heavy balls had to get rolling before their momentum seemed "irresistible."
Perhaps my perspective is skewed, I grew up in an extremely anti-racist family. I was 10 when we moved to Virginia and I was absolutely appalled at the attitudes I encountered there.
Yes, racist attitudes persist and they will probably never go away, just as a century from now there will still be people who believe that same-sex marriage is wrong.
At least now the racists have to speak in code; Republicans can't use the N-bomb in speeches anymore, they have to talk about "quotas," my father became a Democrat in response to the Willie Horton ad.
America has a Heart of Darkness that came over on the Mayflower and which still beats in the chests of too many people, something that the most vile of us, like Trump, know how to appeal to. American slavery was just about the cruelest in history and went on a generation longer than elsewhere in the world.