Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
ANGLO AMERICA, 11 Nov 2024
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service
4 Nov 2024 – Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream. Anyone old enough to have thrown a tantrum about school desegregation, or to have picketed the Civil Rights Act, is not only still alive but still voting. They’re not fossils; they’re active participants, their beliefs barely budged since the Civil Rights Movement. These are the folks who don’t just resist change—they show up at the polls to fight it, making sure their views live on in today’s voting laws, school funding, criminal justice policies, and more.
People wonder why race is still America’s open wound—here’s why. Legal change is fast, social change is slow, and this generation clinging to old beliefs holds the electoral power to keep us stuck, dragging the past right into the present.
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