Some pay too much credence to opinion polls and not enough to basic history known to anyone, as illustrated by this tweet and an old blog of mine.
Millennials are no less racist than Generation X and hardly less racist than Boomers: thesocietypages.org/socimages/2015… http://t.co/gcEb1Q4HAf—
(@SocImages) June 23, 2015
James Heckman is a great economist who spent two years as a teenager in the late 1950s in racist Southern States of America and returned in 1963 and in 1970. His parents when they arrived received a delegation of neighbours to explain Southern ways.
There was organised segregation in 1963 when he visited again. His 1963 visit with a college roommate from Nigeria was monitored by the local sheriff.
In Birmingham, they stayed at the black YMCA. The people there were frightened to death because he was breaking the local Jim Crow laws. Shops closed in New Orleans to avoid serving them. Heckman and his Nigerian college mate were brave young men.
In 1970, Heckman re-visited New Orleans as an academic, going back to the same places. They were completely integrated, totally changed. This rapid social change fascinated him.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 broke the control of…
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