Regarding the "slavery was a long time ago" argument that people love throwing around so much...
Yes, it was a long time ago. However, there are a good number of people in America today who would happily see it come back. While people like that exist, and hold power, slavery isn't something we need to forget about in a hurry.
There are also still segregationalists, and lots of racial tension. I think you have to be pretty ignorant to think America is a post-racial society.
The UK is not a post-racial society, even though there's good argument to suggest we're quite ahead of America on race-relations (not perfect by any means, but better).
Sometimes I hear Americans discussing race, and I can't believe some of the opinions I hear. I can't believe there are actually adults who think some of this stuff. It's like listening to a group of children in the school classroom sometimes.
Yes, it was a long time ago. However, there are a good number of people in America today who would happily see it come back. While people like that exist, and hold power, slavery isn't something we need to forget about in a hurry.
There are also still segregationalists, and lots of racial tension. I think you have to be pretty ignorant to think America is a post-racial society.
The UK is not a post-racial society, even though there's good argument to suggest we're quite ahead of America on race-relations (not perfect by any means, but better).
Sometimes I hear Americans discussing race, and I can't believe some of the opinions I hear. I can't believe there are actually adults who think some of this stuff. It's like listening to a group of children in the school classroom sometimes.
"Adulthood is like looking both ways before you cross the road, and then getting hit by an airplane" - sarcasm_only
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
