I, for one, would think both about how far we have come as a country and how much further we need to go to erase racism and discrimination from our society.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from incident to incident, and we have spikes in which race becomes something that we talk about, as opposed to talking about race in those less contentious times when I think we might make more progress.
I have no bigger goal than to eradicate racism, to grant Americans who have a different color of skin the right to disagree against the Left's style of orthodoxy.
The greatest problem is not with flat-out white racists, but rather with the far larger number of Americans who believe intellectually in racial equality but are quietly oblivious to injustice around them.
As I often say, we have come a long way from the days of slavery, but in 2014, discrimination and inequality still saturate our society in modern ways. Though racism may be less blatant now in many cases, its existence is undeniable.
Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
I think that racism has gotten more subtle, and it's not even racism anymore: it's placism. Like where you live or whether you went to community college or Harvard, and it exists within the race.
I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.