is america more racist than it was during and before the civil rights movements
if so how did that happen?
26-30, M
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We are more divided than ever. Racism is an insidious evil in and of itself but also because it places a mask over the true causes of humanity's cruelty and exclusion.
It becomes too easy to identify the problem as racism and then identify a new enemy (outside of oneself) to blame and hate and seek to annihilate.
We rage over micro slights and hurl insults at each other while black men continue to be incarcerated at unacceptable rates.
We blame an evil system and when we put another in its place -nothing changes. Because we are not at the stage where we value and love each human being as inherently worthwhile. We are not yet at 'the promised land.'
It becomes too easy to identify the problem as racism and then identify a new enemy (outside of oneself) to blame and hate and seek to annihilate.
We rage over micro slights and hurl insults at each other while black men continue to be incarcerated at unacceptable rates.
We blame an evil system and when we put another in its place -nothing changes. Because we are not at the stage where we value and love each human being as inherently worthwhile. We are not yet at 'the promised land.'