1/ I think that the Bush era was the golden age of race relations in the US (sorry Kanye)
2/ As Sean Last points out the trend for whites to have more favorable views of blacks actually took place in the 1990s and culminated in the mid 2000s. ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/08/18/how…
3/ If you look at the deadliest race riots there seems to be a gap during the Bush era ideasanddata.wordpress.com/2019/08/10/on-…
4/ This could possibly be explained by unity over 9/11 and the war on terror. Maybe the more racially unified military culture carried over into the mainstream? theamericanconservative.com/articles/fragm…
5/ The era obviously culminated in the election of the first half-black president. I think that blacks had this idea that things were getting better for them, but once the first black president was elected it made them realize that for the average person not much had changed.
6/ In fact during the great recession disparities got even larger
7/ So combine blacks radicalized by the fact that a black president didn't decrease inequality, social media, and drop in the Trayvon Martin case match, and all the sudden you get the great Awokening and worsening race relations.
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