Thank you all for contributing to this post. Your thoughts and words have all been insightful and powerful. We must move forward and continue the change I feel is at work. Brother Clyde, yes, it is greater than electing a "Black" president.
We must to make this an issue for our own people. So many times, we find something hot and drop it as soon as it gets cold. We are the ones we have been waiting for. It is true. We must, through whatever resources we have, escalate and elevate the discussion to our own people and who ever else cares to listen.
Just yesterday, before I heard about this, I was telling my wife that America keeps talking about this discussion or dialogue on race. Well, how can there be a dialogue when one party is in denial. It's similiar to trying to have a talk with a drug addict about their drug problem when they don't believe they have one.
It is fruitless, futile and a waste of energy.
When I was a younger and very militant college student, in comradeship with the rapper David Banner back at Southern University in Baton Rouge, my philosophy was in order for America to be equitable to Black folks and provide the recompense we deserve, it must die first. I graduated and went into the corporate world, intermingled with white folks and became more moderate. I thought maybe there is a chance. My belief in that has been extinguished. I assert that the death of America is the righting of the wrongs of this country.
Blackbird
