Post Racial?
Recently much has been made of the progress from Martin Luther King Jr. 's time and Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration tomorrow.
Last year reading, seeing and hearing these kinds of comments, I wonder.
Hatred at Palin Rally in Johnstown, PA
This reminded me of the kind of anger and taunts experienced when desegregating lunch counter, schools, and during peaceful protest marches.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
I Have a Dream - Address at March on Washington
1 comment:
Certainly unbelievable, the ignorance and bigotry of the Confederacy :-)
It makes it even more satisfying that Obama won.
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