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It seems pretty possible to vehemently disagree on the "scientific racism" part without disagreeing on the second part, that we will never get along. History ha
by JieJie 3y ago
It seems pretty possible to vehemently disagree on the "scientific racism" part without disagreeing on the second part, that we will never get along. History has yet to prove that we can on a national level, in fact, it seems pretty insistent on reminding us that there will always be forces that seek to keep us divided.
Where we have proved that as a multicultural democracy, American has been successful, I firmly believe, is one of the ways where America truly is exceptional.
- tptacek 3y agoThe "accord" argument is the basis for almost all of de jure segregation in the 20th century, and has been decisively refuted by the experience of residential desegregation beginning in the 1980s. At the beginning of the 20th century, it was lawful for municipalities to literally zone their cities to restrict Black residents, and most of those zoning ordinances took the form of disallowing residents of a regional minority race to move into any area with a dominant majority; accord was the specific reason given for those ordinances. Whatever else you'd like to say about the argument, it absolutely fucked over the United States in profound and enduring ways.