How can it be, in America, that a middle aged black man in Ferguson Missouri can state: "They've [young people of the community] been harassed more than we have," and make it ring true?

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It was exactly attitudes like yours that helped the movement fall down. Racial reconciliation cannot be achieved by one side alone, and we can’t get rid of white racism just by not talking about it. There are old wounds to be healed and bridges to be built. White people like to think that not being racist anymore solves everything, but it doesn’t. And it’s not like white people have all stopped being racist anyways. So as racism becomes less publicly acceptable, the people who are still racist will find ways of doing it that are hard to expose or counteract. And those who don’t care about being branded a racist will be louder and more harassing than back when all people had to do was occasionally remind blacks of “their place.” So given all that, it’s really not a surprise that we have more harassment now than in the past.

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