but the response to this has been swift and appropriate.

>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.

Yes - that group does exist and needs to be addressed. But
there's also a very large group that doesn't think like that
that exists (yet subsequently gets little to no media buzz).

While there is an extreme that says racism is over and it
shouldn't be factored into our politic, there is also another
extreme that says nothing has changed and the racial climate
is basically more/less what it was in 1950 - that also is not true
and is destructive to the composite narrative of 2015 American
society.

> 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.

Definitely has been good to confront it, and it's something that
will need to be confronted 50, 100, 200 years from now. However,
you will *always* be able to find instances of racism - and I don't think
it's productive to always cherry-pick instances of racism and then placate
it all over the news like 'THIS IS HOW AMERICA IS! ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE LIKE THIS
DEEP DOWN INSIDE!" < That's akin to the GOP playbook which only covers
modern-day Islam when there's an ISIS beheading on some "this is how these Muslims
are!! See!!"

We need to balance the narrative out so that it's an accurate reflection of where
modern society really is in America. That includes giving police brutality headline
coverage for sure, but it also includes highlighting stories where progressive culture
does exist - because America ain't all SAE frat-boys singing stories of lynchings, and
we do our culture a disservice when we say it is.


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