> And moving past mentalities like those of the parent post would naturally secure those rights even more strongly. A critical part of "moving past" this means

> And moving past mentalities like those of the parent post would naturally secure those rights even more strongly. A critical part of "moving past" this means recognizing that we are not past this. A lot of people treat things like the Civil Rights Acts or the Emancipation Proclamation as a faucet. Turn off the faucet and racism is fixed. In reality, it's more like a house fire. It raged bright for a long time, thankfully you put it out. Of course you can't move right back in. There's cleanup to do. There's rebuilding to do. You wouldn't tell the family outside the just-extinguished fire to "move past" it. White people (myself included) are insulated form a lot of these effects, so it's important we stop and force ourselves to consider them. It's too easy otherwise to pretend the fire's out and everyone's peacefully dreaming in their beds.