Can I ask a stupid question?
The president, Al Sharpton, and numerous liberals talk about how great progress has been made since the Civil Rights Movement, but that also there is still a long way to go.
My stupid question is: What exactly are we supposed to do; where do we go from here? Decades ago, strong civil rights and voting rights laws were passed. Policies such as affirmative action have been adopted by colleges and major employers such as government and major corporations.
Why exactly is there allegedly a long way to go in terms of equal rights for minorities?? Are civil rights laws not being enforced??? Is there still discrimination based on skin color or ethnicity??? Can they cite examples of these areas in which we still have a long way to go to achieve true equality???
What exactly is the unfinished business of the civil rights movement? Movement for homosexual marriage or other unrelated causes of the day??? Is that what these people are talking about???
What is the "unfinished business"? Pull out your wallet. . .anything in it? There's the "unfinished business!!"
Where do we go from here?
For one the US can forgive Al Sharpton’s tax debt - I’m sure he’d consider that a down payment on the miserable suffering he has had to endure. /s
I am sick to death of these people pushing their racism - and here Obama is using his daughters - Obama who, AFAIK, has only benefited from the color of his skin.
They’ll never let it go as long as they can use it for money and power.
They mean whitey still has a lot more money than we do, and WHY IS THAT???? Here we have a black president, and he doesn't have the guts to just take most of whitey's dough and give it us thieves er black citizens.
We elected a black president to even things up, and what do have to show for it?....they still expect us to work for a living? What's up with that?
That's what the race vultures mean by unfinished business.
I think what President Obama's talking about is black citizens becoming culturally part of the mainstream. America as a truly color blind society. It's a goal most of us share but the path is contentious...
Selma was easy - cops, dogs, and water hoses were wrong - last gasps of Jim Crow evil. Lines were clear. Blacks in Selma were right, ethical heroic and moving toward the future. Easy. Today it's murky, but the goal is the same. Maybe that's what he's talking about.