This could be true. I would also ad that back then the Democrats and the people like Sharpton and Jackson were not constantly driving a wedge between the races. They actually have set back the dreams of MLK.
I worked with a lot of youngsters between 16-22 years old. The white kids resent the race card being used all the time. They would actually say it. It wasn't that they saw blacks as lesser than them, they just resented them using the race card and guilt to manipulate things.
I see it with my teenage son now. He is totally cynical about racism.
“I would also ad that back then the Democrats and the people like Sharpton and Jackson were not constantly driving a wedge between the races. They actually have set back the dreams of MLK.”
....yes, they have....go to a student Union on any college campus and you can see the racial polarization reflected in how the kids self-segregate when they sit down to eat....and this is 40 years after King...
Let me tell you from experience-race relations were MUCH worse forty years ago.Riots were breaking out nearly daily.Schools were battlegrounds.Both whites and blacks were in dire fear of one another.
Are things good now.NO,of course not.Still lots of distrust and animosity on both sides.Yet I lived through the 1964-1970 period.Those were some frightening times!