My husband's take on present events:

[Baitball Blogger]

We have long hair like we did in the 60s and 70s and we're protesting and rioting like we did in the 60s and 70s. This country is going backwards!

[5X]

1. He is wrong, things are as they have always been. n/t

[LakeArenal]

5. Yep. Maybe even more violence and deadlier attitudes.

Incited by TRUMP ( one of the few times I’ve said his name) and organized violence by his cult members.

Funny how white guys with guns rush a government facility and threaten a governor. Then they hold a knee on a suspect for nine and a half minutes. Only one guy charged in all that?

But protesters are terrorists and must be
“handled” with arrests and brutal treatment.

[global1]

2. But In Trump's Own Words - What Have You Got To Lose?.....

Just 50 to 60 years of progress. Over 100,000 Americans. Your jobs, livelihood and businesses. Your freedoms.

That's what you get for electing Trump.

Is America Great Again People? You tell me!!!

[Baitball Blogger]

6. +1

We aren't better off.

[LizBeth]

3. Or things are cyclical and the pendulum has just swung back to this point of progression.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. Cyclical. I don't know.

I remember all during the nineties and up to Obama's second term, our white social circles thought racism was over.

Maybe, issues that were identified in the 60s and 70s were never resolved.

[LizBeth]

9. If you will look at the history it goes about every 30 yrs. They get loud and violent, we bat them

down. They get quiet and then work themselves to loud and violent again. Thru out history. Racism never goes away. It simply becomes too much were the majority stand up for the minority and then the bigots crawl back under the woodwork.

[stillcool]

4. I think it's kind of obvious....

we never went forward. If we weren't such a weak, sick nation, it wouldn't be so easy to break it apart.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. It got better for some at the expense of many.