So we’ve come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.”
How is it exactly that we still have a long way to go to defeat racism and discrimination?
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed 51 years ago. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is 50 years old. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 passed almost 50 years ago. Government and colleges and Corporate America have done a lot in terms of affirmative action to recruit minorities and women into their ranks.
What more needs to be done? What laws can Congress pass which will solve remaining problems? What are the remaining problems?
If anybody wants to talk about the conditions of our inner cities, you lost me there. So many of the social pathologies found in ghetto culture are not the result of racism, but are rather self inflicted wounds.
In ghetto life, too many young men join youth gangs. That is an unfortunate choice. Too many choose not to do well in school, deriding it as acting white. That too is a bad choice.
There is a toxic brew of gang activity, drugs, and the baby mama culture in the inner cities. All of these are driving the poverty found among too many blacks. NOT racism.
But due to political correctness, we aren’t allowed to talk much about the bad choices in life which too many people make.
I would add that there are white people who also are into drugs, crime, and having babies without a husband, and making bad life choices. It’s not racism.
Yet the loudest voices tell us that racism is still a problem.
I want them to tell us specifically what issues of racial discrimination remain. And what the remedy for that is.
Another sign of progress is the migration of Blacks living in the Northern states moving to southern states.