| issues of partisanship, race & bigotry have become highly volatile in the usa because it has a black president? |
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Asked 2 years ago
by nofunctionart  United States |
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No, it has become highly volatile because a nation supposedly founded on freedom for all allowed, even protected, the institution of slavery; opposed the freeing of human beings from slavery; routinely murdered freed slaves and their descendants for exercising basic human rights; and, up to the present day, STILL tries to deny people of non-white 'race' essential, Constitutionally guaranteed, rights--like the Louisiana Justice of the Peace who denied a mixed-race couple a marriage license (Constitutionally guaranteed under Loving v. Virginia)
The USA South is still fifty years behind the rest of the country.
I almost said 100 years behind but I do reckon they've made a little progress in some Southern states.
Not Louisiana.
:-)
I was trying to word it so a non-Southerner would decide, well, he really means 97% of them, while I could avoid an argument with a Southerner if he could rationalize, well, I'm sure I live in one of those "some Southern states" where they made an iota of progress.
It was more volatile during the height of the Civil Rights movement in the 60's. Assassinations, race riots, and other events, have yet to see those happen in the 21st century in the USA.
Not so volatile as in the early 1860s, when millions of Americans tried to kill each other. Sadly they were often successful.
The last election revealed an interesting trend away from that sort of strife actually. Republicans embraced a woman, and the electorate rejected the politics of discord, while embracing a multi-ethnic.