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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
So besides the fact that 50 years ago interracial marriage was still outlawed in many states, housing was still segregated, only a small fraction of white Americans had ever gone to school or worked with a black American, very few blacks had attended college, and there were almost no black police officers, not really much has really changed.
So basically MLK and other Civil Rights campaigners didn't really achieve much. Is that about right?
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Those activists made truly remarkable advances but IMO I think that while people have improved their capacity for tolerance and acceptance for what we see as our differences, equality in it's purest form should not require either of those things, true equality eliminates the preconception that there is anything that needs to tolerated or accepted it is simply ingrained in the fabric of our make up as people that we are all the same.
It's hard to put what I'm trying to say into words but I hope people can understand what I'm trying to get at.
Edit: And yes racism is still rampant in our society.