06-12-2018, 05:15 PM
(06-12-2018, 05:12 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Yes it is. I pulled the quotes straight from his article.
If you're referring to the part about the injustices of slavery or the Jim Crow era not applying the the modern black community, no, that is not what the author was saying. I disagree with those statements by the author, and have explained that, but the implication in them is not that racism does not exist today. The author is saying that we should be addressing the problems of today rather than focusing on what happened before. That there are modern issues surrounding race in this country and we should stop using past injustices to color, for lack of a better word, that conversation.
At least that is what I gathered from the piece.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
