‘STILL NOT FREE’
more than two centuries of slavery and a third of official segregation, the legal, political and social
advancements since 1963 are impressive, even astonishing. We are
not a perfect Union, but we are
less imperfect in fundamental and
decent ways.
“Jim Crow is gone, housing and
school segregation are gone, voting rights are in, millions were
registered, blacks voted in a
higher percentage than whites in
2012,” Jackson noted. “We have
won a lot of victories.”
Racial diversity is accepted as a
social norm, good not only for the
soul and society but for the economy and even, if not especially, for
corporate management.
The president, who measures
the culture in part by watching his daughters, took note of
the changed tone. “It doesn’t
mean that racism is eliminated,”
he said earlier this month. “But
when I talk to Malia and Sasha,
and I listen to their friends and
I see them interact: They’re better than we are — they are better
than we were — on these issues.
And that is true in every community that I have visited all across
the country.”
But cold federal statistics add
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