There ' s a lot of feelings in there . Let ' s deal with some facts . I simply believe that traditional family values are paramount to the countries success . we shouldn ' t be living in the past . The success rates of children raised in traditional families is a scientifically proven fact . It ' s been researched over and over . Children that come out of homes that include a healthy marriage are much , much more likely to succeed in almost all aspects of life . Lower rates of drug use , higher rates of employment , etc . This is a fact . If you seriously believed that because some laws were changed that just magically centuries of oppression and bias went away even though the lawmakers responsible for these racist and homophobic laws didn ' t , that is some kind of willful ignorance . Please point to a federal law that is inherently racist or unfair to a minority group . If you can do this , I would agree that there is institutional racism and fight for it to be changed right along side of you . While I don ' t believe there are any openly racist politicians currently in office , I ' ll entertain the idea that it ' s possible some of the politicians have racist beliefs that they do not publicize . Even if this is true , it does not affect minority groups one bit . Politicians can not arrest . If the politician has not created any laws that are racist , then there are no racist laws , so the point you ' re making is irrelevant . The idea that the existence of a racist person gives a right for those who feel oppressed to act like anarchists is absolutely ridiculous and damaging to this country . Maybe superficially institutional racism and homophobia is gone but you can ' t just wash away centuries old thought processes , that ' s not how it works . That is right , you cannot wash away thought processes . That isn ' t how it EVER works . And while I would never wash away the thoughts of those who feel marginalized , I will not stand up and defend them when they act like fools or commit crimes based on how they feel . Also , superficially institutional is indisputably an oxymoron . It makes no sense . Places like Hobby Lobby still discriminate against gay peopleHonestly I ' m not up to speed on what they ' ve done to gay people . Can ' t comment . Police brutality is obviously still a problem you said it yourself . I don ' t think it ' s a problem in the slightest , actually . I said policing is a problem because I think high crime communities are woefully under policed which is a direct root of the problems we see . A scientifically proven fact is that human ' s are tribal by nature . Without rule of law , humans divide themselves into groups and will do bad things to other tribes they don ' t get along with . That ' s exactly what we see in gangs and it ' s why there are so many murders in the inner city areas . The answer is more policing . And you honestly believe that ONE black people are regressing and TWO if an entire community is regressing it ' s their fault . Black people are regressing in some ways and gaining ground in others . Since the civil rights movement , there are a lower percentage of blacks below the poverty line , however black children are still graduating high school at a significantly lower rate than white children . Blacks are responsible for 50 percent of the murder in America while being 13 percent of the population . The single motherhood rate went from 20 percent to 70 percent after the civil rights movement . To your second question the answer is we don ' t know exactly why . But what I do know is we can wipe away institutional racism as a potential cause . It ' s gone , it ' s over with . What about the white middle class ? They ' re regressing ? They ' re shrinking ? Is it their fault ? I bet you wouldn ' t think so . I absolutely feel it ' s partially our fault . And I think it has a lot to do with white culture . I can ' t speak to black culture , because I ' m white . But I can speak to the culture I see of young people , my generation , feeling entitled to things instead of wanting to work for them . It ' s excuses every step of the way for a lot of people who feel they ' re underperforming in life . That ' s unacceptable . Bring back personal responsibility . You ' re right there is hate coming from both sides but it IS important to understand where it started and it started in YOUR party because of people like YOU . You have no idea who I am , or what I stand for , clearly . I like to deal with metrics , with facts . You just accused me , yes , someone you ' ve never met and you ' ve read a few sentences from , of being a hateful person . I don ' t have a hateful bone in my body . I support the right for gay people to get married if they so choose . I support equality for minorities . I am not a hateful person because I see things differently than you .