[Patriam1066]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Dude, it's not "hundreds of years". The civil war ended in 1865: that's less than 200 years ago. Jim Crow laws (eg. "blacks totally have equal voting rights ... they just have to pass this insanely hard literacy test that we don't give to whites if they want to vote ... it's totally equal") didn't end until the civil rights movement, which started in the 1950s.

There are people still alive in America today (and not a small amount) who still remember what the Jim Crow south was like. My English teacher even told me a story about being pregnant with her first kid and going to a black hospital in the south, only to be told that she had to go to a white hospital because that's how things are done here. This is not ancient history.

To think that the children of people who were quite literally second class citizens in their own lifetime, should not be impacted by their parent's experiences (and their parent's, and their parent's ...) is insane.

What would end racism in your opinion? Just curious