The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it.
Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment.
And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.
Votes, violence, and ignorance.
Sorry to hear that but don't you mean he refuses to *admit* systemic racism is a thing? I mean at this point it's undeniable, right?
Fortunately, you have access to the internet, where explainers like, The Fish, The Lake, and the Groundwater are easily found and a good place to start framing the issue.
There's more to white supremacy than anti-Blackness.
The context here is burgeoning fascism. Fascism is totally reliant on persecuting minorities. They persecute anyone we let them.
American schools teach WWII as largely about Nazis persecuting Jews. If you keep reading you soon find that they killed many, many more Slavs than Jews, but the Holocaust actually started with the murder of disabled people.
See:
https://kolektiva.social/@LevZadov/110626323182728557
We are *all* in danger. Black, white, brown, green or orange, nobody is safe. Anti-Blackness is the tip of a *very* large iceberg (no pun intended).
Attached: 1 image By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich, by Hugh Gregory Gallagher https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/761814.By_Trust_Betrayed
Indigenous people and descendants of slaves on turtle island have been living through their ancestors’ apocalypse since the founding of the new world and the beginning of the slave trade. The same engines of destruction that came for them then have only improved and accelerated. It’s similar in the other colonial projects. The systems supporting those engines have progressed and adapted.
If you keep reading, you soon find the context of my comment. I suggest "Whiteness as Property" (paper) and "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States.”
@mekkaokereke My gran was a school administrator. When I studied civil rights in school, she went beyond the curriculum (had me watch the PBS Eyes on the Prize docuseries and do some outside reading) and she told me two important things that weren't in the textbook:
First was, as you say, the civil rights movement isn't something in the past, it's ongoing.
Second, Brown v Board didn't eliminate school segregation, it just changed how they do it. (She didn't say "redlining" but described it.)
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