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<blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3015034" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>I guess that depends on what you use to measure progress. If you look at things like residential racial segregation, if you look at things like wealth, and earnings, if you look at things like political power, if you look at things like corporate power, If you look at things like criminal justice, access to a quality education, Progress has been made, but it is relatively tiny in the face of these gigantic persistent racial disparities.</p><p></p><p>I think many Americans don't really want to know, and I don't think they actually know just how big and broad racial disparities are in this nation on every measure.</p><p></p><p>I think they just want to pretend well that happened in the past and laws were passed and we have moved on. So for those Americans, I think they look at certain symbolic things and anecdotal stories about how they were raised and how they imagine other people "feel" about other groups of Americans to measure progress.</p><p></p><p> Symbolism, anecdotal stories, and good feelings are important measures, but to me they take a back seat to actually measuring progress using concrete statistics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="refineryworker05, post: 3015034, member: 66082"] I guess that depends on what you use to measure progress. If you look at things like residential racial segregation, if you look at things like wealth, and earnings, if you look at things like political power, if you look at things like corporate power, If you look at things like criminal justice, access to a quality education, Progress has been made, but it is relatively tiny in the face of these gigantic persistent racial disparities. I think many Americans don't really want to know, and I don't think they actually know just how big and broad racial disparities are in this nation on every measure. I think they just want to pretend well that happened in the past and laws were passed and we have moved on. So for those Americans, I think they look at certain symbolic things and anecdotal stories about how they were raised and how they imagine other people "feel" about other groups of Americans to measure progress. Symbolism, anecdotal stories, and good feelings are important measures, but to me they take a back seat to actually measuring progress using concrete statistics. [/QUOTE]
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