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In reply to the discussion: Amy Cooper: New York Woman Calls Police on Black Man Who Asked Her to Leash Dog [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to "solve" racism. (How about lessen?) All humans of all races are wired to widely varying degrees from mild suspicion ranging to intense hostility toward what is different, but money is power and having it changes societal attitudes on a large scale.
Everything that should be done that hasn't already been will be by empowered people. Minorities with money expect a lot more and get downright demanding about it, and most who link money with worth (almost everyone to some degree) agree those who have it are entitled.
Right now we're in the middle of a huge cultural backlash by the losers against way too much change too fast -- gender, sexual roles, race -- and specifically against the democracy and electoral majorities that created it. If it seems like the losers are willing to drag us all over a cliff out of spite, it's because they, and their current leaders, are.
What we're currently living through is not a failure of the equalizing power of democracy, legal advances, and good incomes, but a willingness to burn the nation down to destroy all the hated majorities have accomplished.