"Doof" wrote in message
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Persists? Try "has been exacerbated". Thomas Sowell has done a ton of work
and published copious materials on how progress for blacks has been
stunted since their progress peaked in the late 1950's.

Let's see. In the 1950's, there were hardly any black police, firefighters,
TV characters... let alone doctors, lawyers, judges, justices, secretaries
of state... It was legal, and widely practiced, to refuse to hire any
African Americans, or rent or sell housing to them, or serve them in
restaurants... In much of the nation, blacks were even forbidden by law to
use the public drinking fountains designated for whites. So that was quite a
"peak".

--Gary