Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war

Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.Some students of politics contend that the enslavement of Africans in the Americas which was allowed to continue by the 1787 Constitution of the United States for a number of years and which provoked a deadly civil war from 1861-65, only to be followed after the Reconstruction period (1865-1877) by a further 100 years of “Jim Crow” segregation, lynchings, and the disenfranchisement of the African American electorate is the fundamental scar on the United States experiment in self-government.  Until all remnants of the institutionalization of white supremacy is ended, such critics argue, the U.S. will forever fall short of its goals of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” and its creed of “liberty and justice for all.”  With the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and the passage of subsequent Civil Rights legislation in the latter half of the twentieth century, and, as of January 20, 2013, with the second inauguration of the nation’s first African-American President, can the U.S. now correctly claim to have eliminated racism and overcome its heritage of racial exclusion?  Explain.