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In reply to the discussion: Social Justice is the ONLY Path to Economic Prosperity for Workers in This Country [View all]McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)took us back. Gays---who had made a lot of strides---were pushed back down because of AIDS and Reagan's decision not to fund research. Black folks were turned into fodder for the so called War on Drugs. Reproductive rights were chipped away.
Gays have finally begun to climb out of that hole where Reagan buried them, but only because they were so oppressed it would be hard not to rise. I still see police killing Black folks---Blacks are oppressed in this country by assuming they are guilty of something until proven innocent. I still see reproductive rights being eroded---women are oppressed in this country by forcing them to give birth so that they get stuck in low wage jobs that they can not afford to quit no matter how bad the working conditions. Black women have it doubly bad. Infant mortality rates for Black urban women are shameful!
Our schools are becoming increasingly segregated. College is now too expensive for the poor and working class.
We still have Colonias on the Texas Mexican border that do not have water or electricity. Native American reservations are still home to some of the poorest people in the nation. We brutalize Muslims or anyone who looks like a Muslim and the press acts like it is ok because they are all terrorists anyway---
When I look around America, I see a country that has stagnated since the gains of the 1960s and 70s. In some cases, it has gone backwards.