I am hopeful that the Solomon Jones’ commentary in The Philadelphia Inquirer on the Kerner Report of 50 years ago and on the recent update of that report which deals with the challenge confronting America to deal with and cure our racist history and the racist issues that continue to undermine our country will spark our nation to truly examine the issue and come up with solutions that can repair the negatives that our country, from hundred of years ago to the present, both created and failed to cure.
It is true that slavery and legalized segregation are no longer a burden on our nation’s existence. Having said that, the people of color in our country of America continue to face challenges connected to our racist past that limit their ability to achieve what so many others in our country are able to do. In the same way that scientists work through research to discover cures for cancers and all sorts of diseases, our nation must begin to sit down with each other to review the facts, the actual reality of the signs that created racism in America and the existence of said human germs that continue to plague persons of color in our country.
Look around us. Some of the brightest and most wonderful people in the world, in America and elsewhere, happen to be a part of the community of people of color. But the fact that this American community still suffers in far greater and in so many ways only proves that the challenges that America created for our people of color with slavery and legalized segregation still exist for too many of this community, and the nation that created the problems in the first place should be obligated to actually do the work and research to remedy said problem.
It is true that slavery and legalized segregation are no longer a burden on our nation’s existence. Having said that, the people of color in our country of America continue to face challenges connected to our racist past that limit their ability to achieve what so many others in our country are able to do. In the same way that scientists work through research to discover cures for cancers and all sorts of diseases, our nation must begin to sit down with each other to review the facts, the actual reality of the signs that created racism in America and the existence of said human germs that continue to plague persons of color in our country.
Look around us. Some of the brightest and most wonderful people in the world, in America and elsewhere, happen to be a part of the community of people of color. But the fact that this American community still suffers in far greater and in so many ways only proves that the challenges that America created for our people of color with slavery and legalized segregation still exist for too many of this community, and the nation that created the problems in the first place should be obligated to actually do the work and research to remedy said problem.
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