The "civil rights era" never ended.
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The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it.
Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment.
And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.
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The "civil rights era" never ended. You are still in it.
Black people are still asking for exactly the same things that they asked for in the 1960s: police reform, voting rights, and fair access to employment.
And the exact same proportion of white US voters oppose it with both votes and violence.
@mekkaokereke "but Mekka, they taught me at school in the 1990s that civil rights were solved!"
- all of us who grew up in that time
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@mekkaokereke "but Mekka, they taught me at school in the 1990s that civil rights were solved!"
- all of us who grew up in that time
@dave @recursive @mekkaokereke For real. If I only had school to go by I would have thought racism was done and dusted, but as a kid I accidentally stumbled upon a show called Any Day Now on the Lifetime network of all places, and I learned SO much from it. Looking back on it I’m kind of stunned they were allowed to go as deep and raw as they did, and its theme was *exactly* that racism hides better today but is nowhere near resolved. Each episode takes place in both the 90s and 60s, explicitly drawing parallels across the decades.
How Lifetime's Forgotten TV Series 'Any Day Now' Confronted Racism
With help from the series co-creator Nancy Miller, we look back at Lifetime's revolutionary 1998 drama.
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