Letters to the Editor: It's OK to celebrate racial progress even though racism persists (via latimesopinion )
makes you think. He made me think and reread Frederick Douglass’ “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” He also made me ponder our history past and present, but maybe not always in the ways he intended.
Sure enough, greater than 12% of Texans are Black. On the other hand, six of the state’s 38 congressional representatives are Black. How could that be?It’s fairly easy to make people mad. But could it be that even in that benighted backward place called Texas, some people think for themselves and choose their leaders on criteria other than race?
Blacks were diners at a lavish feast, but they were forbidden from eating. Instead, they watched white diners gorge themselves. In truth, the court majority never affirmatively stated that America is race neutral. In fact, at many points in the opinion, there is an unqualified acknowledgment that there has been and still is maltreatment of minorities.
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