Southern states banned same-sex marriage only eleven years before the Supreme Court legalized it.

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In the legal arena, the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in all fifty states in 2015, just eleven years after a dozen mostly southern states passed constitutional amendments prohibiting it. In politics, we elected our first African American president in 2008 and granted him a second term four years later. In the cultural arena, the #BlackLivesMatter and #TakeAKnee movements have exploded onto the scene, demanding justice for the alarming number of African Americans who are killed by police and for the disproportionate number of black men who are incarcerated. There have also been increasing calls—and some important actions—to remove Confederate battle flags and to take down a few of the thousands of Confederate monuments that dot the South’s public spaces. There is even a renewed movement to have a serious conversation about economic reparations for the descendants of enslaved African Americans. — Robert P. Jones, White Too Long, 46