What's So Great About America (2013)
What's So Great About America
“—EMERSON IT SEEMS CLEAR THAT AMERICA WORKS PRETTY WELL FOR immigrants, but does it also work well for domestic minority groups, such as African-Americans? This was a topic on which I debated the Reverend Jesse Jackson a few years ago at Stanford University. Jackson began by asserting that America is and always has been a racist society. To demonstrate this, Jackson evoked the painful history of slavery and segregation. He also cited a contemporary list of horrors—the Rodney King beating, the ro...le of Mark Fuhrman in the O. J. Simpson case, racist comments at Texaco, the blacks who couldn’t get served at Denny’s, and several other examples of continuing racism against black Americans.
I did not deny that racism exists, and conceded that in a big country like the United States one could find many examples of it. But I asked Jackson to prove to me that racism today was potent enough and widespread enough that it could prevent me, or him, or my daughter, or his children, from achieving their basic aspirations?MoreLess
I did not deny that racism exists, and conceded that in a big country like the United States one could find many examples of it. But I asked Jackson to prove to me that racism today was potent enough and widespread enough that it could prevent me, or him, or my daughter, or his children, from achieving their basic aspirations?MoreLess
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