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5th and Final Reading

        Welcome back to my blog... for the last time. In my last reading, it got me thinking a lot about how society was and how it is discrimination of all kinds. It raised the question: Is society actually improving on how people treat others who are different? Based off of that question, I plan to respond with an answer.         In today's society, the treatment of others who are visually or physically different from us is improving compared to how it was in the 1600s to 1970s. Even if these changes may be slow...very slow... and take time for people to adjust to, they are occurring. This can be seen with the black community, disabled people, and the LGBTQ+ community.         For the black community, treatment has obviously improved compared to how it was in the past. They have gone from being enslaved by white Americans to "separate but equal" to gaining civil rights to complete freedom and little prejudice. A...