Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question.
From Constance Baker Motley
There is no longer a single common impediment to blacks emerging in this society.
There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
The middle class, in the white population, encompasses a wide swath.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.
The fact is that racism, despite all the doomsayers, has diminished.
The Constitution, as originally drawn, made no reference to the fact that all Americans wre considered equal members of society.
The black population now consists of two distinct classes-the middle class and the poor.
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