The short form, as an overall answer to his article: No. The longer form answer: His article makes several mistakes about the US and ignores the bloody and dar

The short form, as an overall answer to his article: No. The longer form answer: His article makes several mistakes about the US and ignores the bloody and dark history that we have today. I frequently see this sort of ignorance (whether feigned or not) in these sort of arguments because people are convinced that we're somehow past a lot of these issues. We're not. There's this terror of a new 'liberal orthodoxy' while we see black men beaten and killed by the police, rights taken away from LGBT people and more. Rather than fear the government boot coming down on people, they fear the people showing rightful anger against the government doing something about it. One of his first claims is >And we are not defined by black and white any longer If you were to ask a black man this question, the answer would likely be far different. He says that we have 'no secret police', but ask someone who's had experiences dealing with ICE or someone who's been harassed by the police solely because of the color of his skin. Ask any of the women who've had to deal with sexual harassers and predators in their job. You'll find out that there exists two Americas: One for a very specific type of citizen, and another for the rest of us. Anger is never simply the result of people living in luxury and opulence. Anger is a build up of pressure among the people. And people are angrier than ever because these problems have persisted for decades and have kept persisting.