Civil Rights The 1960's were the great civil rights era, but what has happened since then? Have things improved, and if not who is to blame? The book The Aims of Argument gives us two authors with contrasting views on racism and discrimination today. William Raspberry is a conservative black man that writes, The Myth That is Crippling Black America, Lewis M. Killian is a non-conservative that writes, Where are the Dreams of the Sixties? William Raspberry's main point in his essay is that Black America believes a myth, "the myth that racism is the dominant influence in our lives." Raspberry is implying black America is concentrating on the discrimination and racism