Glaring discrimination based on skin colour has gradually been dissipating in US
Flames engulf the Community Corrections Division building in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the US. Picture: STEPHEN MATUREN/ REUTERS
The notion that racism is ingrained in American culture has become the dogma of this era, not only among angry blacks, but also young whites attempting to authenticate their “wokeness” by joining them in the streets. It is a myth, though, untethered from fact. It all went south, ironically, during the presidency of the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, whose left-wing imagination saw Jim Crow behind every incident of black-white conflict. By the time he had left office, the percentage holding a rosy opinion of race relations had crashed into the mid-40s.
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