The fact is there are black people today who are still being refused access to public accommodations, lynched in broad daylight or forced to work without pay. Examples of most damning historical injustices can be cited in the present, these issues have never been fully resolved.
In Louisiana there are black people today who are imprisoned because of an 1898 Jim Crow Law who are forced to work 12 hours per day on the fields of the same plantations where their ancestors may have been enslaved. Fact. thefader.com/2017/05/20/act…
We’ve seen video after video of black people being forcibly removed from Waffle House, Starbucks, and a range of public accommodations. The idea that we have full access to these spaces today is an ideal, not a reality.
And lynchings still take place in this country. To pretend they’ve ended is to ignore the reality communities experience, particularly in the South.
So be careful making broad claims about how slavery or lynchings “ended” or that the Civil Rights Act “ended racism in access to public accommodations.” They didn’t. Policy interventions reduced these things, made it harder for people to get away with them. But they still happen.
