The Confederate flag is down, but racism remains alive
By Billy Easton
on July 26, 2015 - 12:01 AM
... I have been told by some that the solution is focusing on the families, like the dysfunctional one that raised the South Carolina church shooter. No doubt mental illness played a role in the tragedy this young man created.
But to deny the role of the ideology of racism which led to his targeting an historic black church is to stick one’s head in the sand ...
As a nation we have never fully come to terms with how central racism has been to the American body politic. I am not only talking about individual bigotry, I mean systemic inequality based upon race ...
If we do not take responsibility for reversing the social, economic and political consequences of American racism in our generation, it will continue to haunt our children and our children’s children.
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