I mean, slavery was only abolished about 161 years ago in 1865 and the Civil Rights act was only about 62 years ago in 1964. A lot of the older people in our government were in their teens or kids when the civil rights movement was going on. This isn't some kind of past that we've left behind, it's literally the present as our elected officials have carried their prejudices into old age. And these same boomers could have even had great grand parents that owned slaves.

Yes, it's generational hate that they've passed onto our generations. But that implies that those exact same people aren't around anymore which they very much are and are running the government and making the rules. I mean, Trump was almost 20 when the Civil Rights Act was signed and I don't think he was someone that was on the right side of that fight.

Obviously I'm writing this from the perspective of a white person and what I'm saying sounds pretty ignorant, and I get that. But at the same time this seems to be something people with privilege seem to forget. We've definitely made a lot of progress in a short period of time but it's barely been half a century. I'm sure most people of color have a family member that had to fight for their rights and were told about it when they were growing up and already understand everything I just said. Realistically we didn't even make it a couple generations before we went to... This. And it's kind of pathetic and disappointing.