[OldNavyVet]

I feel like we're now back where the country was in the 1940s in some ways.

Dad was recalled to the Navy in 1941 and we moved from California to Virginia.

Virginia was a different world.

Blacks sat in theater balconies. Blacks rode in back of bus. Blacks lived in ghettos. Blacks went to black schools. Blacks did their toilet matters in race-separated rooms. Blacks drank water from designated fountains, and blacks went to black schools.

I was there.

[ClearCase_guy]

I wasn't saying that blacks in 2015 were being mistreated in all the ways you just listed.

I was saying that one race is clearly given preferential treatment today. And one race is looked down upon a source of societal problems.

That's the way things were in the 1940s, right?
It's how things are today.

In the 1980s, the problems had not totally disappeared, but they were not at the level we see today. Today, we are a deeply, deeply racist country. Our government promotes racism to a degree not seen in many decades.