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This is incomprehensible.
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SU said the U.S. is the best. I'm saying hopefully we're in the top twenty. Further, no one should deny or justify religious bigotry by saying things are going along swimingly on the racial front, because they aren't. Indeed, the racial context makes the religious bigotry more understandable. U.S. anti-discrimination laws can't dictate attitudes, but they are there in hopes of changing them. There is a reason it is against the law to discriminate on the basis of religion, as well as race. Obviously, the U.S. has a long ways to go.
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America mandates integration by law, France says all are equal, hence no need to mandate integration. I see flaws in both approaches. The American approach mitigates against real social integration because the mandates create a divide ("You must be lesser because I'm being forced to play with you."). The French approach inspires greater social interaction but doesn't address patterns of egregious discrimination. I watched a BBC show with U.K. blacks that had gone to the U.S. and U.S. blacks that had gone to the U.K. Their love of their new countries mirrored each other, probably because the nature of racism differed between the two countries. History is full of American Blacks that made their fortunes in France because they were not afforded the same opportunities in the U.S. Finally, I had to suffer through a "testimony" one Sunday of a White Mormon married to a Black French Mormon who went on and on about the racism that existed in the U.S. and U.S Church. I often feared for the Black Saints that would visit the U.S. They had no context or understanding of the racial divide that exists. Sure, we've managed to sanction those who might shout "N*&$@#" at a basketball game, but we haven't sufficiently addressed the reason they do it. Then we all laugh when Mormons are compared to Nazis. I guess that's progress.
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