You must be very young then.
The fifties had overt, institutionalized racism throughout the South and defacto racism almost everywhere else, the sixties had nearly continuous racial protests (far more extensive than the piddling ones today), the freedom bus rides, and extensive race riots, especially after MLK was killed. The seventies and eighties were better but we re-institutionalized racism with Nixon's New South bent-causing all southern segregationists to move from the Dems to the GOP overnight and still a core of the GOP. Plus we had riots, demonstrations, etc. throughout the country about forced school busing, the whole Willie Horton thing, etc.
The racial we have today is mostly people frustrated that things still are "fixed" even with a black president.
So, we have equality. There is nothing that is not "fixed." The only thing that could possibly be done now is to give favoritism. The problem is people don't want equality. What they want are handouts and cop-outs. They want someone to blame for their own failures other than themselves (ie: AA), or their shitty luck (ie: someone lost a leg, and now they get mandated special treatment via the ADA). You can't with any semblance of rationality have literally equal rights, and then tack on additional policies for races / disabilities / etc. that disadvantage others by comparison, and claim that things are not "fixed" in terms of the advantaged parties being now disadvantaged somehow, so I presume you actually meant the opposite of what you imply with your statement of "even with a black president," or your implication is the opposite of how I read it and your statement is merely convoluted.
Regardless, this thread exemplifies the stupidity of the majority of P&N people on this forum: completely delusional, hard party lines, us vs them, every material object is a right, bashing America abroad is what leaders should be doing, forcing policies against the will of the people, removal or diminishing of Constitution or other inalienable rights, preference of others to the existing citizenry, refusal to accept science, constant refutations, refusal or inability to admit failures, idolatry, praises infinite spending, no personal responsibility, unlimited excuses and imagined detriments that society imposes, and general stupidity.
Barack Obama is a fucking disgrace, along with the overwhelming majority of democrats (yea, the idea of a democratic party is great, but cut through the bullshit and realize the party is hijacked by fucking radicals --- the GOP is similar, but obviously better currently), and anyone who isn't deluded and rationally looks at the things he has done easily identify these things.
The first two pages of this thread are full of people who obviously can't or won't.
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