Racism Rears it Ugly Head
Willam Bennett has once again proven that racism is alive and kicking.
Just when I was hopeful that some progress had been made. In a speech on 09/15 President Bush actually said:
As all of us saw on television, there is also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. And that poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America. We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action. So let us restore all that we have cherished from yesterday, and let us rise above the legacy of inequality.
I, for one, could not believe what I had just heard. This was the key phrase “poverty has roots in a history of racial discrimination, which cut off generations from the opportunity of America”. I can still hardly believe it. Institutionalized racism has cut off generations of African Americans from true economic and social equality. Do the powers that be finally get it?
No.
Any illusion that the political establishment has begun to understand the effects of racism in America took a big hit with William Bennett’s little exercise in old-school racist banter, and the Administration’s comment that his remarks were “not appropriate”. Not appropriate? How about morally bankrupt? Or let’s try born out of complete ignorance? Or at least unconscionable?
When will America wake up and tackle this issue and jettison the baggage of bigotry that has held us back for far too long?