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Growing up in Birmingham and Racial Progress
My grandmother is an 80 year old Black woman from Birmingham, Alabama. This city was the backdrop to many major events in the civil rights movement. In this interview, my grandmother recalls that Martin Luther King Jr. used to spend to time at her aunt’s house, growing up around the block from a young Angela Davis, and spending time with the families who lost their daughter to the 16th street Baptist church bombing. While she herself was not at the front lines of the civil rights movement she was at great proximity to the civil rights movement. However when asking my grandmother about her childhood in Birmingham, Alabama she speaks of it fondly (click here for audio). Listing the Black businesses that were available to her as a child and teenager. Racial segregation in the Jim Crow south certainly had enumerable deleterious consequences for African Americans. However, what my. Grandmother most vividly recalls are the places that she could visit on her side of the color line. She describes how bus drivers would adjust the color line depending on the number of white passengers – the mundanity of racial segregation and the lack of self-consciousness and fear that she had for White people at that time. Stating that she knew there was something wrong with them and that she was never afraid of white people.
Later on in the interview my grandmother discusses the election of Barrack Obama and the current state of racial politics. She says, “I thought we would have made a lot more progress than has been made. We made some progress and now we’re back and we’ve regressed a lot. So I see us in a worse political environment than there was back 20 years ago, 30 ago.” (click for audio) Through my grandmothers’ accounts she disrupts myths of Black racial progress. She recalls memories from the Jim Crow era south fondly while criticizing the current administrations. In Black Girls: Shape Shifters, Aimee Cox shows that while events like the Detroit Riots, remain engrained in the in the public imagination, they do not hold absolute power in shaping the lives of those who witnessed or experienced those events. For my grandmother the current state of racial affairs is unexpected and disappointing.
Questioning America
The first thing you notice at the National Museum of African American History and Cultureis that everyone is trying to be so nice, especially the white people. ‘Excuse me’s’ flutter like confetti, an invisible murmuring of apology for standing in front of someone and for everything else that’s ever happened. It’s unconscious, reflexive almost, and one wonders why the deference to history doesn’t…
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But what really got Zachari exasperated, causing Aaliya and me to sit up from our vegan rancheros, was their pointed question: why does racial “progress” seem to require acts of violence, including the taking of Black lives?
Richael Faithful, ‘#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk’
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New study shows how much racial progress we’ve really made
It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which means it's time to reflect on one of America's favorite topics: racial progress. In 65 years, we’ve integrated schools, reversed bans on interracial marriage, criminalized housing and voting discrimination and elected a black president. But if 2015 taught us anything, in order for real progress you must change hearts as well as laws. Some states have come further than others.
Here’s the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it’s all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they’re not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before. …. So, to say Obama is progress is saying that he’s the first black person that is qualified to be president. That’s not black progress. That’s white progress. There’s been black people qualified to be president for hundreds of years. If you saw Tina Turner and Ike having a lovely breakfast over there, would you say their relationship’s improved? Some people would. But a smart person would go, “Oh, he stopped punching her in the face.” It’s not up to her. Ike and Tina Turner’s relationship has nothing to do with Tina Turner. Nothing. It just doesn’t. The question is, you know, my kids are smart, educated, beautiful, polite children. There have been smart, educated, beautiful, polite black children for hundreds of years. The advantage that my children have is that my children are encountering the nicest white people that America has ever produced. Let’s hope America keeps producing nicer white people.
Chris Rock, Vulture interview, 11/30/2014
In a weird and twisted kind of way, I think it's a sign of racial progress that Obama has done horrible things and is just as much of an asshole as the previous 43 presidents
Like the previous 43 presidents, he's continued America's empire and imperialistic policies. He has the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people on his hands. He's backed by the status quo and special interests. He too doesn't care about minorities like black people. He doesn't really care much for the poor. He's a neo-liberal asshole
It shows that anyone and everyone, regardless of race, can be an asshole. See, we're all alike after all!