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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 3475962" data-attributes="member: 66082">Yeah, America was founded in 1783 or so, and black people were facing legal discrimination all the way up to the 1970.  Do the math.  It is 2018 that's 235years of this nation's existence.Ending legalized racism by 1970 is 187years of this nation's existence.187/235 is .7957 times 100= 79.57% of this nation's existence.I could have chosen 1776 as the year of the nation's founding, but they still had to win the war.1783 was the year the war ended and the British recognized American independence, so that's why I chose that year.  You could pick other years like 1788 or 1789 but that doesn't change my point at all.</blockquote>