In 1854 my great-grandfather, Morris Marable, was sold on an auction block in Georgia for $ 500. For his white slave master, the sale was just “business as usual. "But to Morris Marable and his heirs, slavery was a crime against our humanity. This pattern of human rights violations against enslaved African-Americans continued under racial segregation for nearly another century.
The fundamental problem of American democracy in the 21st century is the problem of "structural racism": the deep patterns of socio-economic inequality and accumulated disadvantage that are coded by race, and constantly justified in public speeches by both racist stereotypes and white indifference. Do Americans have the capacity and vision to remove these structural barriers that deny democratic rights and opportunities to millions of their fellow citizens
This country has previously witnessed two great struggles to achieve a truly multicultural democracy.
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A. Differences between races are deliberately obscured.
B. The blacks are not compensated for their unpaid labor.
C. There is no guarantee for blacks to exercise their rights.
D. The interests of blacks are not protected by law.
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