Divisiveness in the US is a sign of progress

I was reading through the blog, and I commented on someone's post, but I think I hit on something interesting while I was writing and thinking through the comment: divisiveness in the US is a sign of progress.

What that means is this: As people develop more and more opinions on topics, and start thinking about it more in their daily lives, there is inevitably going to be some divisiveness. People have different experiences, different mindsets, different information that they know, therefore will come to different conclusions, causing division. However, as people become more divisive in their thoughts, they will be inspired to try to change the minds of others by trying to get to see the situation through their lens.

Now normally, if you have a bunch of minds all coming to different conclusions, it'll become a mess where nothing happens, nobody gets anything done because they all have different ideas about what's happening. This will inevitably happen with any divisive issue, but in the US, things are a bit special.

In the US, there has been a prevailing, main idea throughout it's entire history about justice: The Justice System is fair. Obviously this isn't true for minorities, like at all, but for whites, the majority race with power, it IS true. Without the power, however, minorities could never fight back that idea at all, thus, it prevailed. As civil rights became more and more progressive as time went on, minorities began to assimilate more and more into the system, but were still faced with tons of racism, but, nothing was done about it. There was little conversation about it. The rising voices who were champions of civil rights eventually died out or faded into the shadows of obscurity.

Things stayed the way they were for years, up until the 90s when people started rising up again and challenging the institutional racism in the justice system. People became super divisive about the issue because there was such an underlying feeling in the white community that the justice system was fair, and that these people were overreacting, or even worse "criminals". Meanwhile, the minority communities knew this was untrue, and pushed back. This is the division.

And here we are now. Race relations are still as divisive as ever, and it feels like progress is occurring very slowly. And while it is, this division is still a sign that things are changing, however slowly. This division shows that people are trying to make people aware of the injustices they're facing today. It shows that people really are trying to create progress. It also gives people a chance for their mind to be changed. If there's nobody to challenge your viewpoint, of course you'd be content with the viewpoint you have. With people to challenge you, even if you're not open minded at all, it still implants the idea in your head.

It might seem worrying that we have such a division in regards to race relations, but it at least shows that something is being done.