Still, Herrnson said, “recent studies suggest that the numbers who say one thing in public and do another in private [are] declining.”
REPARATIONS
Although the US government has made reparations to groups harmed on the basis of race — such as ethnic Japanese held in detention camps in the US during World War II — it has not done so to the descendents of African slaves.
Some argue against the idea, saying slavery was not the fault of the current leadership; others argue the government perpetuated slavery and denied millions civil rights for centuries, with long-lasting social and economic ramifications.
And in a sign of the lingering tensions, officials at a US Christian college in Oregon are investigating after a cardboard effigy of Obama was hung from a tree, recalling past infamous lynchings of African-Americans.
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