Are Race Relations Improving in America?
From the eyes of a southern white male describing how race relations have improved, I am bound to lack a complete perspective. But clearly, anyone raised below the Mason-Dixon line in the time period leading up to the Civil Rights legislation signed into law during the 1960’s can attest to the social, and political advances of all races since then, especially African Americans. The differences between then and now are starkly contrasted by the highly visible presence of blacks, Chicanos and Asian people in elective office, academia and pop culture, unlike the caricature of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” or the tensions between the races during this evolving era as expressed in James Baldwin’s “Going to Meet the Man”. This in no way presumes that racism has completely disappeared. Evidence of this has exposed itself from many whites during the last Presidential campaign and following the election of America’s first black President. No need to go into the demeaning social practices by m
