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Originally Posted by Dusty
Yeah, and it was fifty f.cking years ago.
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Where does the past end and the present begin?
With all due respect, QP Dusty, earlier in this thread, I raised a similar point when another member of this BB made a comparison of events in the 1960s to what is happening today. At that time, you offered a significantly different interpretation of the past's relationship to the present than you are now.
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Originally Posted by Dusty
The Country elected a black President. How much farther can it advance toward equality?
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How does one define equality? Is the complex issue of race relations primarily about national electoral politics and the skin color of elected and appointed leaders?
Or is it, as a member of this BB whom I respect put it, "all about the money?"
Or is it a matrix of factors--including matters of politics, policy, economics, the interplay of popular historical memory with individual experiences, contingency, and cultural sensibilities--that shapes our discussion of the encounter between Mr. Zimmerman and Mr. Martin?