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Timalkin - I'd question the term "generations ago"
A quick search of Wikipedia gave me countless examples of openly racist laws in the US which were in effect in my parents life time. I quote one case simply at random:
North Dakota
The state passed three Jim Crow laws. A 1943 statute barring miscegenation was repealed in 1955. An 1899 Constitutional amendment gave the legislature authority to implement educational qualificaitons for electors.
1899: Voting rights [Constitution] Gave legislature authority to establish an educational qualifying test for electors.
1899: Voting [Constitution] In 1899, a constitutional amendment passed declaring "The legislature shall, by law, establish an educational test as a qualifier for suffrage should such a measure be deemed necessary." (Legislature declined to do so.)
1933: Education [Statute] Law stated that "it would not be expeident to have the Indian children mingle with the white children in our educational institutions by reason of the vastly different temperament and mode of living and other differences and difficulties of the two races.
1943: Miscegenation [State Code] Cohabitation between blacks and whites prohibited. Penalty: 30 days to one year imprisonment, or $100 to $500 fine.
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Racism, supported by law and the state, is sadly very recent in the history of the USA - this is not some ancient and long forgotten crime as you seem to suggest.
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