Divisions In The United States Are Not New

Today's blog will be quick, but only because I have uploaded a video where I talk all about what this blog post is about. As a sociologist who is very interested in learning about race, social movements, and inequality it bugs me when we talk about divisions in this country as if we have never had them.

Today, while browsing the comments section of a conservative video I came across comments that said Obama is dividing the country. Well, the sociological side of me had a lot to say about that, so I filmed a quick video (about 7 minutes long):

If you are all TL; DW, these are some of the main points I made in the video:

• Democrats have more fun, I am obsessed with this t-shirt y'all...
• Obama didn't divide the country.
• Obama's presidency is in a strange time of advances in technology and social media.
• Divisions in the country were there long before Obama.
• Now the divisions are harder to escape because of technology.
• Don't tell me or any group to be 100% perfect before I/a group can lodge a complaint and change the world.