“My life on the farm during the Great Depression more nearly resembled farm life fully two thousand years ago than farm life today.” – Jimmy Carter
We know that social change occurs glacially, and that the victories discussed in textbooks represent rallying-points rather than real social conversions. American schools were “desegregated” in 1955, and yet remain overwhelmingly divided by race almost seventy years later. Seventy years is hardly any time at all in race matters; racial divisions only seem to arise after thousands of years.
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