susanc I am referring to the US bombing of Yugoslavia, not the civil war they had before Clinton was even president. Ok, if you want to get technical, it was a NATO bombing, but guess who decided to have it?
I do not mean that there was an era of discrimination that suddenly stopped last week. But similarly, no historical date is that accurate. There were baroque composers alongside post-modern ones during what some would call “the romantic” period. Or naturalist painters during the heyday of Cubism. That’s the thing about eras. You find one symbolic date (such as the first black US president) to put in a history book, but of course things still happen before and after that date. Apartheid was officially ended years before Mandela became president of S.Africa, and I’m sure there is racial discrimination even today, almost 2 decades later. But it’s certainly not as bad as it was in the 80s.