So... how about that Tea Party?

[Final-Fan]

Kasz216 said:

Final-Fan said:
Well it's true that segregation would have a much harder time with the Feds keeping state, county, and municipal governments in line.  But regarding segregation needing reinforcement, you can say the same thing about racism I believe, but that hasn't stopped people from being racist.  Segregation is just much easier to see, and to stop.  If people hadn't been stopping them, lots of people and places wouldn't have stopped. 

McDonald's gets government funding? 

The big difference is racism gets social support.  It's all around us and you don't even really see it.
One wayt o put it is... it's easy to be racist... it's hard to act racist when your around a lot of black people and get to know them.
Here is a fun fact... Roger Kelly, former leader of the Klu Klux Klan ended up leaving the Klan partially because he became friends with a Black Man, an Author who wrote a book about the Klu Klux Klan.
"Klandestine Relations"  I believe the book is called.

Racism generally can be defeated, so long as people are aware of it and meet people of other cultures.  You just get issues like the afforementioned France in another thread, where the government puts off the vibe that there isn't really racism... and that's where things get worse.
So long as you have an open government fostering good will and publishing information about racial issues it should take care of itself.
How long it would of took though, is another story.  Civil Rights Legislation probably quickened things up with the expense of larger racism existed now then if it would of happened "organically."
Which some you could say "They should of did it that way" but that's easy to say in 2010.  Harder to say back then.
Which is really the big trouble with racially based laws to even things out by force.  It makes the "solution" farther away... but improves things now.
On the one hand you can look to the future, on the otherhand, it's hard to deny improving things for people currently around.

So what you're saying is that segregation helps racists stay racist, and encourages racism.  I can certainly believe that.  And desegregation helps discourage racism. 

But I'm not sure why people would be more racist now than if desegregation hadn't been forced outside of government or gov't-supported institutions.  Just because people will resist forced change generally, and this resistance ossified?  Or the "affirmative action effect"?  Or what? 
If it's too complicated to explain to a layman in a reasonably-sized post, just say so.  I'm a big boy, I can take it.