Now see I don't think we have taken steps backward.  It is the left that continues to divide us by race, religion, sex and wealth.  Every platform they have is how one group is being oppressed by the other group. Seldom do they talk of unity and the progress we have made as a county.  My gosh we just had a 2 term black president.  We have women, latinos and blacks on the supreme courty.  We had a woman as speaker of the house and one just win the nomination and a major political party.  This is a far cry from the 1960's.  Maybe if the left celebrated our progress instead of looking for the next political issue to divide us we would not have so much hate and anger in our society.  

Yes I use black instead of African American because not all blacks are from Africa.  Some are from Haiti, Jamaca, Australian Outback...etc