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Topic subjectThe problem is that America is too quick to pat itself on the back.
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12745614, The problem is that America is too quick to pat itself on the back.
Posted by BigReg, Mon Mar-09-15 11:47 AM
As if it should get points because it's not lynching minorities and have allowed them to drink in the same water fountain.

We saw it with all the post racial America talk and how many non-minority millenials aka the next generation of politicians and bosses don't see America as racist at all despite ignoring all the signs that the new Jim Crow is judicial and political. The one good thing about the recent run of media paying attention police brutality deaths is that it's been a reality check.

Every time the 'We've gotten better/we've moved past that' talk starts its less about acknowledging how we as a society has moved forward, but more about covering up the mutated forms modern institutionalized racism is now.