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The Reckoning Of America

                                   The Reckoning of America   A true change is on the horizon for American ideologies and their institutions far and wide.   In all fifty states this immanent change of heart is clearly palatable and beginning to take flight in what is set to be the greatest civil rights movement since the late sixties.   The Voting Rights Act of 1965 granted the right to vote for African American citizens.   This was right around the time my parents were born incidentally not that long ago.   I had high school teachers and mentors who were much older than fifty and they could clearly remember and were instrumental in recanting the amount of injustice people of color had to endure at the hands of their violent oppressor the American Government and its statures riddled in   white supremacy. When I came to New York City in the early 90s it was as confusing and exciting as it would be for any five year old Spanish speaking boy from Mexico to have come to Americ