By MATT THORNHILL

Note to readers: This article appeared originally appeared in the Richmond-Times Dispatch July 29, 2010

Almost two years ago we observed that the baby boomer generation had played a significant role in transforming attitudes about race in America over the past 40 years. We credited boomers as being the generational "pivot point" in race relations.

The thinking was this: Boomers, white and black, were raised by G.I. and Silent Generation parents who generally believed white and black people were not equal, and in many places the laws supported that view. Despite such parental influences, boomers apparently absorbed Dr. Martin Luther King's plea to judge not "by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" and successfully raised the millennials as the first "colorblind" generation in America. Thus, the "pivot" designation.

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