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Post 1960s and Racial Progress

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was so much political action and activism at the time that we can still hear it on a quiet night, or feel it in the ethers. This discussion will  examine some of the sixties energy in terms of civil rights and try to determine if we have made any progress at all. Bibliography lists 5 sources. BBracprg.doc  RACIAL PROGRESS SINCE THE SIXTIES? Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., April 2001 Introduction Here it is forty years later after the turbulent  sixties. Can we say that we have made progress in race relations since the sixties? Or is it one of those - look-at-the-ground-and-skuff-your-shoe kind of things? There  is something about the sixties that remains, we could almost wonder if there was so much political action and activism at the time that we can still hear it on  a quiet night, or feel it in the ethers. This discussion will examine some of the sixties energy in terms of civil rights and try to determine if we  have made any progress at all. The University as the advanced guard Residual from stereotyping: In a 1999 essay, "The Recoloring of Campus Life," Shelby Steele interviewed white and  black students, and discovered that both felt guilty. Blacks felt guilty for not wanting to be stereotyped as one of "those" blacks, and whites felt guilty because they are  anxious they might do or say something "wrong." According to Peterson (1999), affirmative action while started with the "best intentions in mind," is now perceived, as a "minority being stuffed  down my throat." The other side of the coin, is the black student who says, "they dont think I could have made it here on my own." Some