I’d like for you to reflect on Civil Rights and race relations in America today. How has America progressed in relations between people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds? Are we not tolerant enough? Are we *too* tolerant? Has the government not done enough to aid historically disadvantaged groups? Has the government done about what it should have done? Has it done too much? Should it do more? Is it reasonable to expect that African-Americans, who from 1619 to 1865 were enslaved, then from 1865 to 1964 were in many cases and places not much better than enslaved, and today experience significant inequality, should have “caught up” by now?
After you’ve taken some time to reflect on Civil Rights and race relations in America, write a brief essay to tell me you think.