There’s no denying we’ve made huge progress in making the dreams of Martin Luther King, Jr, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and all the other civil rights crusaders of the ‘60s come true. After I graduated from college, I taught in a school so full of minorities that I was the minority. My son, biological, is also biracial, but a different combination.) I had one black classmate in elementary school, and then only for two years before Lacey moved away. Today nobody looks twice at my multi-racial family. I remember as a child, the biracial couple on The Jeffersons being a big deal.
In my lifetime, we’ve seen racial discrimination decrease significantly. We did away with slavery in this country almost 150 years ago. Some of us remember better than others, of course, but it made me reflect a little on some of the phrases we throw around with such ease. The day we sit around and shoot off fireworks and at least pretend to remember the tenets on which our country was founded. Yesterday was Fourth of July in the United States.
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