(August 14, 2013 at 6:59 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I didn't intent to create offense, TGAC. I used that particular word because there's ample evidence that racism is alive and well in some parts of the U.S..
Non taken.
I was a aware of that, what I was simply not aware of before I was corrected here by Chuck, min, you and others is that even the political institutions did not take the task of learning from past mistakes seriously.
Quote:You know, I don't doubt that there are southerners who feel that way - certainly we have seen our share here who are not bigoted. But there are others who are still racist - and while you don't see the overt racism in politics that existed in our past, where laws directly targeted the hated minority de jure, you do see attempts to pass laws that indirectly target those same minorities while not glaringly appearing to do so. Poll taxes. Literacy requirements for voting. Vastly longer sentencing for crack cocaine compared to powder cocaine. The list goes on and on.
Yes, and I was not aware that this kind of institutionalised discrimination extended into the political institutions.
