How has America changed since this case? - Miles

So obviously America has come a long way in a relatively short amount of time. Just 150 years ago, we still had widespread slavery, a practice which made our country laughably hypocritical (Land of the Free, all men are created equal). Since 1949, we’ve passed Civil Rights Laws, and we’ve even elected an African-American President. But can we really say we’re a completely different country?

I think it’s interesting to think about both how much we’ve done and how little we’ve done as a country. While many are far more tolerant now than in 1949, racism still poses an enormous and hypocritical problem to our country. Again, we are called the nation that accepts everyone, the melting pot of all cultures, but there’s still such huge wealth distribution and race relation issues, and there is even still enormous amounts of racism in the region where this occurred. The question to consider here is, have we done more work than we still need to do to get this country to a place where everyone is equal?