50th anny of the Little Rock Nine, how far do you think we have come?

Answer 1

Well I live in Little Rock, and we have come a very long way. We still have a long way to go, however.

Answer 2

Pretty far considering African Americans consistently complete Ph. D programs. If you are not just talking about education, then consider the fact that a black person has been the world's golfing icon for the better part of the last decade.

Racism is not so much the problem in the US as is a self defeating mentality amongst many African Americans these days which assumes that all of their problems are as a result of caucasians. The fact of the matter is that African Americans have the same education opportunities now, which puts them in a position to get the same, if not better jobs than their caucasian peers.

The Jena 6 incident is not a trend. The hanging of nooses is not a common practice in the United States. The reason it made the news is because it's rare, no because it happens every day. Many African Americans, to this day, are more concerned about the harm caucasians will do to them than the harm that there own demographic will cause. Consider that 80% of all African Americans that are murdered in the US, are victims of another African American. 75% of murdered caucasians are also murdered by African Americans. Make whatever conclusions you like, but I think it's clear that most of the time caucasians are not the ones causing the harm.

The race card has been played out. It's time that everyone stop and reflect on what's become of things. Of course the people that hung the nooses should be punished, severely even. But there are much greater problems in this country that need to be addressed.

Answer 3

I am not black, nor white, and would like to offer my objective criticism based on observations after living in the US for 20 years...
This is still a country dominated and run by white people...why? Not because white people today think blacks should be inferior or live as 2nd-class citizens... a lot of it has to do with American history, and what it has passed down to our society today. the fact is - our current race-relations situation is inherited from a country that was founded on principles of racism, imperialism, and white supremacy (white America also got rid of the Native American Indians)... The Civil Rights movement, affirmative action, and amendments to the Constitution make up for only a fraction of the brutality and inhumane treatment suffered by blacks during centuries of slavery and oppression... in other words, we have not come very far at all... "All men are created equal", written in 1776... Blacks got the right to vote in 1965 (Voting Rights Act)... almost 200 years for that much progress... it will most likely take another 200 or so years until we can say that we have come a long way toward racial equality...
( great question and a fascination topic for discussion)

Answer 4

I think the candidacy of Barak Obama pretty much answers that question.

The fact that Jesse Jackson thinks he is "too white" and that Al Sharpton thinks he doesn't know about the struggle that put him there raises other questions.

It's yet another question whether the preferences in the Affirmative Action program went beyond the equality that Martin Luther King, Jr. was speaking about in his "I have a dream" speech.

On other aspects of this besides race... you probably don't know that Governor Faubus deliberately created that situation that resulted in the Federal soldiers being called to escort the students, to appease his constituency. In that sense, we had politicians posturing and pandering then, and we have politicians posturing and pandering now. We haven't moved an inch on that.

Answer 5

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