Shockingly, people in the 17-34 age range aren't doing that great at racial issues once you scratch the surface-level question "Are you a racist?" Old racists own up. Younger racists don't know when they've got offensive beliefs, because they aren't arguing for cross burnings and church razings. When discussing Stop and Frisk, the wage gap, media representation, and the War on Drugs, younger people aren't always aware of their own prejudices.

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Just because they're not hanging him from a tree doesn't mean he's fine.

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From a distance, we can say that our grandparents and parents had it easy. OF COURSE black and white kids should be able to go to school together. OF COURSE the Civil Rights Movement was correct and good and got everything right. OF COURSE MLK should be remembered as "the best person of the 20th Century, hands down." History has proved all of this. To be on the wrong side of those issues was to be an idiot.

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Also on the wrong side: complaining about protesters blocking traffic while making their point.

We're still idiots about that, unfortunately.

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Today's youths(?), youngins(?), baby-adults(?) are in the middle of a continuation of the Civil Rights Movement -- one that challenges the rights, privileges and biases that sprung out of the 1980s. We're in the middle of a movement, and the most privileged among us don't have perspective yet. It's like trying to measure the the curvature of the Earth in a cornfield. The fact that we're obsessing over the math of the curvature doesn't mean it can't be done or isn't important. Especially when there are giants among us shouting that we're missing the big picture because we can't see beyond our tiny worldview.

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