"My" people

[Dill]

(04-13-2018, 01:26 PM)PhilHos Wrote: But, what about a majority of Americans? Granted, I wish it would be "all" and, who knows, maybe someday it will be all, but if a significant majority of Americans recognize him as an American, shouldn't that be enough?

Not to mention that it doesn't help that many people of color segregate themselves.

You make a good point there.  Seems over the top to expect EVERYONE to acccept whatever minority is in question before acceptance is no longer an issue.  Not the right standard, because there will always be a few Klansmen or Nazis squirreled away somewhere, and who have no effect on anything outside their own yard.

The question is, what counts as a significant majority, and have we reached it yet?

Connected to that is a further question--at what point does lack of acceptance no longer matter politically for x minority? That should probably be the standard.

Bels is throwing up a lot of hard data to suggest that while things look ok to us white folk, there are still some hurdles that blacks and other minorities face which we do not "see" or experience, in part because they are buried in paperwork and ordinary-seeming administrative/legal decisions.