Racism and Civil Rights Issues in the United States: Are They with Us Forever?
While I certainly realize that people like me, who are absolutely without racism and without any leanings toward creating, contributing to, and/or supporting any civil rights violations, do not make up 100% of the population, it appears to me that racism and civil rights issues for people of minority groups consistently continues to die a slow death.
I'm not at all pleased that 40 or so years after the Civil Rights movement racism is still not completely dead; but while racism and civil rights issues were very much alive , well, and strong in the past, what is generally left (for the most part) today, in terms of racism, can be compared more to a combination of a few last gasps and/or the occasional relapse.
Most of us are quite familiar with the power of creating an impression that was demonstrated in the movie, Charlotte's Web, when Charlotte created the impression that Wilbur was more than a simple, runt-of-the-litter, pig. While it may have saved Wilbur's life in the film, members of the community (and people beyond that as well) were misled into believing that something that wasn't true was true. All kinds of minds were changed. All kinds of people were fooled. The issues of racism and civil rights issues in the U.S. are real-life issues, and in real life it words (such as those in the claim that racism and civil rights issues are permanent in the US) can mislead people, change thinking, and create uproars when none need exist.
There is no question that racism and civil rights issues are not dead in the U.S., but they're not permanent either. All anyone need do is look at history, look at the progress that has been made, acknowledge that it is taking longer than it ever should have, but - when it comes to the claim that racism and civil rights issues are permanent - stand up and tell Charlotte we all know how easy it is to say and write words that are not true, and we don't buy it.
Racism and civil rights issues in the US are dying and don't have much time left. Anyone who has lived long enough to watch them being brought down can see. When there's something people like that's going on they can hope it will last forever. When people are sick to death of having to deal with what's going on it can seem as if it will last forever. Neither is objective, realistic, thinking. Racism and civil rights issues have no permanence in the US, and it wrong to imply they do.
Published by L Warren
New England based freelance writer, and spare-time Internet writer. View profile
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