I’m saddened and sorry to hear about the chaotic events this MLK holiday, but I’m not surprised. It’s gets old to see, 30 years after MLK’s death, all people seem to be doing is marching. Marching now seems merely symbolic and useless – but what else are we do? How do you fight the racial discrimination that is currently out there, but is not evident as it once was?
We have always been open, welcome, and accommodating when it came to whites, and when they rejected us, only then did we feel the need to get and have our own (which was abandoned when the whites finally offered their services, communities and employment up to us).
Sadly to say, I think integration has caused a major rift between African Americans that have and those that have not, the haves having been the ones who sit comfortably as a part of mainstream white culture and often shout down the have nots.
LaWanda Wallace
St. Louis