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When American children are taught about the Civil Rights Era, the focus tends to be on laws like Jim Crow, people like Bull Conn
When American children are taught about the Civil Rights Era, the focus tends to be on laws like Jim Crow, people like Bull Conn
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2019-06-20
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When American children are taught about the Civil Rights Era, the focus tends to be on laws like Jim Crow, people like Bull Connor and Martin Luther King Jr. , and issues like equality and justice.
The thinking goes today, to simplify the reasoning on the right and among libertarians, that those times were long ago, the laws are gone, Bull Connor and his ilk are long dead, and we have fairness before the law and everything else is just a matter of applying oneself now.
But the changes from those times have, in fact, been gradual. There’s nothing to indicate, and certainly no defining moment, when racism ceased to be a problem for blacks and other minorities in America. Coming as far as the nation has in a relatively short amount of time is impressive, given the way racism was ingrained in the American culture, politics, and education. But part of that progress was due to the explicit societal and governmental acknowledgement that laws and society made life very unfair for a segment of the population. We’re getting to a point where that recognition is becoming less and less obvious, and the remnants of centuries of racism linger and continue to affect millions of Americans.
After all, if equality were simply a matter of codification, Jim Crow never would have happened. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments should have rectified the legal disparities that affected black Americans, but it took more than a century for Congress to pass legislation to say "No, we really mean it. "
But then, given the opening lines of the Declaration of Independence—that all men were created equal is a self-evident truth—why were those amendments necessary in the first place? Though the Declaration was never legally binding, its opening lines became the primary and guiding principle of the nation. What gives?
The answer is simple: American rhetoric and law has been hypocritical since its inception and nowhere has this been more evident than in legal protections and law enforcement for black people.
Black Americans have, for the entire history of this country, faced a legal system that treats them differently than white citizens. It’s gotten better, sure, but this enduring legal double standard demands closer examination.
U. S. is making a lot of progress in fighting inequality because______.
选项
A、racism is not part of the American culture
B、racism is not part of the American politics
C、racism is not part of the American education
D、inequality and injustice are generally recognized
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。第三段第四句明确指出,之所以在平等方面取得了明显的进步,部分原因是社会和政府清楚地认识到了这个问题。[D]项的概括符合原文,故为答案。
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