Reply #18: I sympathize

[Libertas1776]

when you're young and in school, you're taught all about the civil rights movement and its effects. Even from an early age, they're given little MLK Jr. coloring books or the like to try and get you to understand the past. We are taught that everyone is equal no matter the color of their skin or their religion, as if to prepare us for the "real world" where such ideals are the rule and not the exception. And then, you grow older, graduate High School and go into that "real world," and see it for what it really is. Everything about civility and respecting one another that we are taught is basically thrown out the window. It was as if it were an effort in futility. Of course, then again, maybe I was only taught such things because I was educated in a Catholic School in the evil elitist Northeast.

Of course, then again, as someone above said, something like 95+% of those under 30 support interracial marriage, while those over 60 it is significantly less. America is graying, with the larger part of the population growing older. Do we honestly expect any progressivism or change to come from them. No, it is to the youth of America that I look forward too. I really hope that this country can be a lot better place as the older generations pass on, taking with them their old racist conservative beliefs.