Racism

The recent back and forth between former President Obama and Senator Tim Scott illustrates the difference in how these two see the situation of race in the country. Scott is forward looking and talks about all of the progress that has been made in the past 75 years while Obama focuses on the past reliving the discrimination against Blacks. It is much like President Biden who used the phrase Jim Crow 2.O. Certain Black leaders see the race issue as a political win and want to continue to divide the country along racial lines, the oppressors vs the oppressed. A common phrase is that American suffers from systemic racism and if you are white and don't understand this you are probably a racist but you just don't know it. This is a powerful argument because there is no way you can prove you are not racist. Everyone knows that there is much to be done to improve the lives of minorities but reliving past sins is not the way to make positive changes. A good place to start the conversation about racism is to discuss the situation in the schools. How about getting some of those inner city kids who are serious about education into the schools in the suburbs.