Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Have we overcome?

March 7th was the was 45 year anniversary of Bloody Sunday, a historic march and turning point in the Civil Rights movement. So the question is, have we moved on?

We have and we haven't.
Black people are still largely suppressed under an air of white supremacy, and whites are still filled with a feeling of their own supremacy. The latter statement is more pertinent to the older generations of American whites, but their mindsets are being passed on to their children. In terms of rights, black people have been afforded civil rights etc. But in terms of treatment, black people still receive blaring imaged of whites being dominant, are kept in poverty by welfare and gentrification, still suffer the terrible effects of slavery, and experience the patronizing glares of older whites. So we've moved on, but not by that much.

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