re: #258 Belafon

I’m an optimist, but getting better is relative. It’s kind of like global warming: The temperature has gone up, but it still snows in the winter. I think we are getting better a little bit, but we started out pretty low.

Just remember, Millenials have about the same views on race as their parents.

I suppose the rapid fall of the Confederate flag fooled me. It seemed like maybe, for one brief shining moment, a lot of hitherto unthinking Americans said, “Wait - maybe there’s another side to this.”

Of course, then I read otherwise reasonable - but of course, white - friends on FB talk about how they didn’t find the flag offensive, because they viewed it in an historical context. (?)