Social progress goes both ways over time. The modern world is not an improvement.
People were more excepting of homosexuality in the ancient past then they have ever been on the modern world. Human life is less valuable now. Racism isn’t decreasing, just changing form.
Grits are a porridge made from boiled cornmeal. Hominy grits are a type of grits made from hominy – corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp removed.