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Originally Posted by jimjamuser
What happened to the US. I think most Of us (at least 70%) are asking ourselves that question. I can think of about 10 factors. I can talk about one of them that relates directly to CRT, which I think is a clumsy and confusing name. (It has caused confusion here. It does seem foreign or socialist-type scary) I would call it.....teaching the TRUE history of the US......not WHITEwashing it (pun intended). A free society has zero reasons to try to duck the TRUTH. My high school never mentioned the Tulsa massacre or the Rosewood, Fl one. I was mature enough in 8th grade to take in those TRUTHS. I had Black friends that I played sports with that I could have had a reasonable conversation with on that subject. Race relations would be SO much better today if in 1965 President Johnson had EXTENDED Civil Rights laws to encourage Blacks and White to live in the SAME neighborhoods - by tax credits for builders of new developments or whatever would have made that happen. In the 60s my white neighborhood was physically far away from the Black neighborhood in the same town - that made RELATING to each other more difficult. In college and in the Air Farce, it was much easier to relate to other races - there was less physical SEPERATION!
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I don’t know where you grew up and went to school, but we learned about slavery, the Underground Railroad, Rosa Parks, the lynchings and cross burning perpetrated by the KKK in grade school. I went to high school during the era of forced bussing to fully integrate schools. Looking back, my friends were a mix of white, black & Asian - but back then, they were just friends. It’s the people who want to classify others by their race, who are the real racists. The media and others who do their best to continually drive a wedge between people, truly disgust me…