Is this biased reporting?

[Eirinjas]

Of course it's changed you doorknob. It's made the worst sort of change. The quiet, festering, slow boiling seething sort of change.

Instead of signs saying whites only on the door, there are signs saying "We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone." And they frequently do.

Some times, something like this is better out in the open where people can clearly see. Otherwise, people wont look for it because they don't want to see it. A lot of people are under the impression that the South has become a little better. They would be wrong.

In some ways, it has become a little more tolerable. Jim Crow laws are gone... At least officially. But the unseen stuff that goes on is the very worst sort because it slowly builds pressure till it reaches explosive mass. And when it does... Everybody stands around going "What the hell" because everybody tries to pretend they didn't see it coming.

Racism evolves. It doesn't get better. It gets worse. It finds new ways to get worse, while at the same time disguising it self better and hiding all traces of it's passing, to make fools and idiots believe that it is going away or that it no longer exists. People want it go away but nobody actually wants to work on cleaning up the system that allows it to fester.

Enlightenment era my ass. I loathe that term.
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If the ratio of whites to blacks were 1:1 you'd still have racism. Women outnumber men in this country and have for a long time and sexism persists to an as great, if not greater, degree than racism.

If it wasn't for "enlightenment era" figures like John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and the like (and their ides) - then Jefferson, Franklin, and a whole host of our Founding Fathers would have been many degrees less the men they turned out to be, and blacks might still be openly dispossessed by the government. You can literally read Locke in the Declaration of Independence.

So, Capitalism and Federalism helped protect the equal rights of blacks how? Every statistic I see points to the opposite - Capitalism degrading and minimizing blacks and the Federalists doing everything in their power to cut social programs that would benefit blacks (like the recent defeat of the Coburn amendment).