“we have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.”
As he had mentioned, “the more things change, the more they remain the same”. Efforts to end racial segregation has only sparked fresh new problems for the people of color. Allowing black individuals to vote, while may seem like a great step forward, only increased tensions between white supremacists and blacks and made things remain the same. In the article, with new addition of drugs like cocaine, crime rates increased among the colored. Although the drugs may be seen like a new addition and improvement, it only moves them backward. With these, it really proves that we haven’t done much to the racial system at all over the years.
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I wrote something ver similar in my Blog and I agree with everything you said. With every problem that is solved, there is another problem to counter it and that is an issue.
I truly enjoy your diction in explaining the way racial segregation has been normalized in society. This facade seems to allude everyone, as the government uses the criminal anti voting to strip rights from colored people and put them at a disadvantage. Your use of the phrase taking one step forward and two steps backwards is extremely articulate as it paints a picture of the utter deprivation of equality as masks by the right of colored people to vote.