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In reply to the discussion: I'm going to drop this here... [View all]F4lconF16
(3,747 posts)Or we would not be struggling to change it.
And here's the thing: for millions today, while things have changed, much has been for the worse. Black scholar Michelle Alexandria (author of "The New Jim Crow", what has been considered by many to be the new bible of civil rights) has gone so far as to say that a black person living under Jim Crow may actually have been better off than a person living today under the racial caste system created by Mass Incarceration. That is a hell of a thing to say, and I won't comment on the validity of it, as I don't think I have the standing. But realize that for many, not much has changed.
Ferguson happened for a reason--oddly enough, it's because structural racism there has not changed in it's ferocity; only in it's implementation.