I remember sitting at my white family kitchen table and hearing the most vile racist things being said about jews and blacks. That was in the 50′s and early 60′s. Now at our kitchen table that talk would not be tolerated. The old generations of bigets and people fighting against bigetry are dying away to be replace by a new generations of people who are seeing racism for what it is (as sin against God and man) and I have real hope for these young people, but then I hear from the Wrights, jacksons and Nora Ephrons of this country and see the same crap only wrapped in a different box. Racism and sexism is racism and sexism and it is NOT exclusive to the American white male. Just ask the people in Sudan. This country isn’t perfect and has done some pretty rotten things just like everyone else (we have also done some really wonderful things too) but we are getting better, were learning to be more excepting other people. But some of this garbage just keeps knocking us back.
