Monday, January 18, 2010

still dreaming

It was really a different world here in 1960, the one in which Grandpa's classmate (he was telling us yesterday) threatened to disrupt a civil rights sit-in at the old Andrew Jackson Hotel in Nashville by throwing bottles at the protesters. Racism and ignorance still plague us, and the most ignorant racists still hold big megaphones (Hello, Pat and Rush) but there's been measurable, undeniable progress towards a society in which people are finally judged only by the content of their character.  Let's not give up on ourselves just yet.

1 comment:

Kristin Mary Johnson said...

We are still young. I think we are learning, although it's so hard to comprehend the pace of our change sometimes that I gnash my teeth with impatience.

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