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Old 02-28-2012, 11:39 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Indeed. I think of it like a pendulum. It swung too far in the direction of a lack of rights for black people, now it's swinging back, and of course the pendulum goes too far in the other direction (equal and opposite reaction and all that). Not that it's going too far in the sense of black people having too many rights or anything, just when black people started getting and fighting for their rights after so much oppression, it was natural for there to be some extremism.
A pendulum is a good analogy here, its a pity that it just doesn't hang somwhere in the middle. I think much more relevant today though in the USA are the Hispanics. This is the fastest growing population there and cities such as LA and Miami to name just two are predominantly Spanish speaking. What sort of rights do they have, considering many are treated as cheap labour.
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