06-08-2009
Racism
Many conservatives often argue that the country has moved beyond its history of racial discrimination and should therefore move on in light of the election of Barack Obama. Many mainstream voters might reject this but believe that, at a minimum, the country has moved beyond the type of mainstream, overt racial discrimination and segregation that characterized the civil rights battles decades ago. Its understandable that they may think so, but reading this piece in the NY Times Magazine section about segregated proms in the rural South demonstrates that, painfully, its just not true. Its really worth your time to check it out.
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