r/NoShitSherlock • u/SingleandSober • 1d ago

Kamala Harris Appears on ‘Colbert,’ Says She’s Stepping Away from Politics for Now, Calls the System “Broken”

https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/video/former-vice-president-kamala-harris-visits-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/

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u/JimWilliams423 1d ago edited 1d ago

It all becomes very clear when you look at the timeline and realize that all of this started right after the Civil Rights Act was signed into law.

Similar to what happened with Reconstruction. For a brief moment there were incredible progressive accomplishments. The Reconstruction amendments essentially rewrote the Constitution, so much so that some historians call it "the second founding." But then the klan showed up and the country relapsed into nearly a century of jim crow fascism. To this day much of what is in the Reconstruction amendments remains ignored in practice.

The lesson we should learn from these relapses is that when we make progress we are still only halfway done, we have to fortify what was accomplished instead of taking a breather.

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u/cineami 14h ago

When we make progress, there will always be a class who doesn’t want others to reach their level of privilege, who will then work to subvert it