The tragedy of modern American history: we fought our bloodiest war to date, and ended slavery, in the 1860s. Race, a difficult issue in the USA, to say the least, could have started to become less of an issue — at that point.
But . . . this didn’t happen. Instead, the “Jim Crow” era began, and, as a nation, we foolishly let it run for roughly another century before fixing that, and even then, we’ve left large parts of this problem unfixed, to this day — such as the problems that underlie high-profile police-brutality cases, which usually involve Black men being clobbered, to, or near, the point of death — by alleged “public servants,” who do a great disservice to the actual men and women of honor (yes, they do exist) who wear police uniforms. It is the fault of these “criminal cops” that police officers are not widely trusted, nor liked, in many African American communities.
All this, and Americans actually wonder why such things as an academic achievement gap still exist? Hint: DNA has absolutely nothing to do with it. The cause of this “gap” is easy to see: entrenched, pervasive racism, and the perfectly-understandable reaction to it, from a population with every reason to be utterly sick of being treated as less than fully human.
It’s 2015: well into the 21st Century. This situation is both absurd, and shameful.
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oh boy…look, the problem is that blacks were never integrated in the first place. we were just desegregated. there’s a huge difference. if anything, being “integrated” before we achieved equality with whites was a worse-off move. it made things even worse.
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Excellent point. Thank you.
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Thank you for introducing the topic and not being abrasive when people have different views, Robert.
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It would be foolish for me to claim to know everything — on this topic, or any other. Also, you are quite welcome. =)
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I’m gonna start posting stuff soon…maybe it’ll be an eye opener for you and others. But it’ll be focused around topics related to this one. Thank you Robert, you’re a cool dude.
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You already have one follower, at least. I look forward to seeing what you post.
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