A White Man Asks: “When are we going to get over it?”

http://www.peoplesvoiceweekly.us/wp/?p=13
With all the hate being spewed by the right-wing political fundamentalist, painting a bleak picture isn't hard to do. I thought I'd share something from the other side for a change.

the article immediately cuts to the heart of the matter:

"For much of the last forty years, ever since America “fixed” its race problem in the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, we white people have been impatient with African Americans who continued to blame race for their difficulties. Often we have heard whites ask, “When are African Americans finally going to get over it?

Now I want to ask: “When are we White Americans going to get over our ridiculous obsession with skin color?"

Recent reports that “Election Spurs Hundreds’ of Race Threats, Crimes” should frighten and infuriate every one of us. Having grown up in “Bombingham,” Alabama in the 1960s, I remember overhearing an avalanche of comments about what many white classmates and their parents wanted to do to John and Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Eventually, as you may recall, in all three cases, someone decided to do more than 'talk the talk.'"

Since our recent presidential election, to our eternal shame we are once again hearing the same reprehensible talk I remember from my boyhood."

the truth will always set you free...