AMERICA IS MORE RACIST TODAY? Condoleezza Rice & Larry Elder DESTROY the Narrative

there are people who will say it feels worse now when we're talking about race or it just feels like a divisive environment it sure doesn't feel worse than when I grew up in jimro Alabama okay so let's drop this notion that we're worse race relations today than we were in the past really that means we've made no progress really but America has changed and dramatically so in 1960 60% of Americans said they would never vote for a black president almost 50 years later the black man who said racism is in America DNA was elected president and 4 years later reelected that's only the most obvious example of racial progress I think the hyperbole about how much worse it is isn't doing us any good we still this country is never going to be color blind we had the initial original sin of slavery it's still with us is there still racism in America of course there is but racism is not in America's DNA recent history and a lot of research and data prove it as William H fry of the Brookings institution wrote sociologists have traditionally viewed multi-racial marriage as a benchmark for the ultimate stage of assimilation of a particular group into society black white marriages were still illegal in 16 States until 1967 and a 1958 Gallop poll found that only 4% of Americans approved of black white marriages today that number is 87% % in 1960 of all marriages by blacks only 1.7% were black white today it's 12% and Rising so for people who say you know what it's top down it starts with the president it starts with the words that he speaks oh come on all right um I would be the first to say we need to watch our language about race we need to watch that we don't use dog whistles to people who but when we start saying oh you know it's it's worse today no they're not as liberal Harvard sociologist Orlando Patterson said America is now the least racist white majority Society in the world has a better record of legal protections of minorities than any other Society white or black offers more opportunities to a greater number of black persons than any other Society including all of those of Africa Patterson by the way is black I'm Larry Elder for Prager University