Racism

With the passing of time, the conditions of two to three generations ago get lost in the shuffle. Take the Anglo\Irish situation, a hot and cold conflict that dragged on for over four hundred years. In the later half of the twentieth century, most Americans found it difficult, many to the point of incredulity, to comprehend what all the deadly or otherwise bother was about back in the Auld Sod. But, there are Irish both in Ireland and America who still remember The Famine and the Black and Tans or any number of similar situations.

The same kind of disconnect can at times be seen among non-African American conservatives (political and religious). However, a quick look at the Wikipedia article Mass racial violence in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States) shows before World War 2 racial violence was for the most part white on black or some other minority. Additionally, there was the day to day sense of dread brought on by the atmosphere of violence and murder due to lynching (please see wiki’s Lynching in the United_States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_in_the_United_States). More to follow.