People move forward because they choose to move forward.
Winner! Too many young people keep looking back.
I grew up when racism was real and my father grew up when it was really bad. I grew up with blacks and Mexicans, one of my black friends was called
Tracey lips and mine was chink. I wonder where the lips came from in that nickname. Interracial marriage was taboo and today I have a teenage black Grandaughter. I think the ignorant kids today worried about a flag or monument should be asking their racist father and grandfather (if you are lucky) why they kept racist policies till Martin Luther King,
100 years after the Civil War. Rob kept pushing the Cornerstone speech, the VP said it but many believed it till the 1960s.
Does anyone remember "The Dukes of Hazard" that show was watched by blacks and whites alike and aired for 5 or 6 years. The boomers saw healing and millions of Americans watched that show not looking for race, not like today. As Morgan Freeman mentioned to Lemon, "if you look for racism it will always be there" Freeman also said about inequality "Bull s, look at me and you" and kids have to go back 160 years to virtue signal. I think the same as him an old boomer and Morgan probably grew up in segregation.
I was too young to notice segregation and learned about it in school and on TV and I was shocked. My first experience with the race card was in the Army. I jumped the black private for half-stepping he was lazy. He reported me to the section chief and I was called into office but nothing happened because he knew the other NCOs I hung out with. There were also racist whites and blacks in the Army who had their little clicks.
The second experience I had was with my granddaughter's dad. The dude wouldn't hold a job and my daughter said it was because he was black. I said no he's lazy. After 1.5 years she left him and married a Cajun black. (no child support to this day).
The third came from the media after we elected our first black president. Imagine that! When the media started calling Republicans racist because we didn't agree with some of Obama's policies. Trying to put a guilt complex on Republicans. I believe the race-baiting has been used since then.
My granddaughter was concerned about racism when she heard on her phone (5th Generation Warfare) and I asked her, would I be your grandfather if it was as bad as they say? It was like a light bulb went off in her head. I told her to be careful what she believes in the media.
What you kids need to be worried about today is the slavery that corporations have put you in. Right now people are getting laid off or taking pay cuts just to keep a job.