Nearly every voting bloc moved to the right in this election

[mark46]

I agree, there have been great strides made and the situation has improved. But what's left to do is more difficult to deal with precisely because it doesn't involve prevalent negative attitudes, but self-perpetuating structures that create disadvantages. The problems are far harder to see for those outside of marginalized groups, and the combination of the real challenges and the complete denial of those challenges gives the perception that the negative attitudes are still widespread.

Negative attitudes are still widespread, no longer acceptable to the majority in most communities, but still widespread.
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CONSIDER AN EXAMPLE
A young black man was murdered by older white men for the act of jogging. The trial took place in rural GA. This case was covered nationally. The country listened to the arguments. Folks expected the rural GA jury to be a hung jury or expected them to vote for acquittal. The jury had no trouble finding the murderers guilty.

This indeed shows that times have changed. The coverage and analysis also showed how much racism was still acceptable to so many.

 

[RDKirk]

Negative attitudes are still widespread, no longer acceptable to the majority in most communities, but still widespread.
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CONSIDER AN EXAMPLE
A young black man was murdered by older white men for the act of jogging. The trial took place in rural GA. This case was covered nationally. The country listened to the arguments. Folks expected the rural GA jury to be a hung jury or expected them to vote for acquittal. The jury had no trouble finding the murderers guilty.

This indeed shows that times have changed. The coverage and analysis also showed how much racism was still acceptable to so many.

I personally remember the time when that jury would have acquitted the man. A bit before my memory, but within my life span, he would not have even been prosecuted.

 

[mark46]

I personally remember the time when that jury would have acquitted the man. A bit before my memory, but within my life span, he would not have even been prosecuted.

Initially the prosecutors instructed the police not to make any arrests. See the attached for those who don't recall the case. It took a lot of pressure to get the case tried. Once the case was tried, the jury did the right thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-trial-wednesday-jury-deliberations/index.html

 

[RDKirk]

Initially the prosecutors instructed the police not to make any arrests. See the attached for those who don't recall the case. It took a lot of pressure to get the case tried. Once the case was tried, the jury did the right thing.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/24/us/ahmaud-arbery-killing-trial-wednesday-jury-deliberations/index.html

I wasn't sure if that's who you were talking about, but there we see personal acts of racism that were ultimately (if just barely) caught by a system that is essentially non-racist. An important difference here than in the past was that they could only prevent prosecution by keeping the matter unknown. In the past, all of the information could have been publicly known and they could have still refused to prosecute.

 

[rjs330]

Neo-Marxist Critical Theory says that your truth and facts are merely the tools of the Oppressor and must be discarded so that we are "not held back by what has gone before."

What's interesting about that is the assumption that facts and truth are mine. Or yours. That there aren't facts or isn't truth that are universal.

And there are facts that what has gone before can make it more difficult for people. My parents did not.own a house until about 1983 or so. We were very poor growning up. So, circumstances can affect us. But it's a difficulty not an impossibility. I was never told that I can't be whatever I want and that I can't pursue whatever I want. There were times I had a very difficult time finding a job. Life isn't always easy, but there is no one in the US any more.who.is prevented from pursuing their best life.