08-26-2020, 02:58 PM
(08-26-2020, 02:32 PM)PhilHos Wrote: Since I was a kid, any time there was anything even remotely racist, it was publicly and usually loudly condemned. For most of my life, racists had to hide their racism because it was not publicly acceptable (in most of America) to be racist.
Not so much the condemnation as the fact that it even exists. When I first became an NFL fan there were no black head coaches and blacks were not considered smart enough to be quarterbacks. But I don't remember the nation "loudly condemning" the NFL over this. Instead it was just accepted and no one complained too much.
Same thing is still happening to day on a smaller scale. Some people are still telling their children that racism ended in the 1960's; the Civil War was not fought over slavery; the reason black people are poor is because they are lazy and immoral and are never the victim of systemic racism; or that racism does not exist unless it is caught on video.
