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Originally Posted by alansmithee
I'm not liberal, but the problem with this "Color-blind" society idea is that it doesn't address current discrimination (along with the lingering effects of past discrimination). It baffles me how many people seem to assume that racism is something that you only read about in history books. Racism (and it's aftereffects) linger to this very day. You can see evidence of it in any black community.
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I would expand that to say: racism is indeed very much alive and heavily present everywhere and not just confined to the black community - it is everywhere, in all our communities (black people do not have a monopoly on being victims of racism, it's everywhere).
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/12/fir...ion=cnn_latest
So much for "heros" or the "bravest".