NorthStar News - Walter L. Fields Jr.
We are at that moment in America and I state that with the intent of being alarmist. It is the moment similar to that in Philadelphia in 1776 when slavery could have been abolished but wasn’t and we paid dearly for the moral failings of the Founding Fathers. It is the moment that mimics Reconstruction when we could have permanently aligned institutions toward justice and we surrendered to hate. It is 1954 all over again when we could have moved with all deliberate speed and instead dragged our feet and allowed Jim Crow to kill real integration. It’s the mid 1960’s all over again when we allowed militarism to crush any chance of constructing the beloved community so eloquently articulated by Dr. King.
We only get so many chances and my fear is that Donald Sterling and his merry band of racist zealots is a sign that time may have run out.
We are at that moment in America and I state that with the intent of being alarmist. It is the moment similar to that in Philadelphia in 1776 when slavery could have been abolished but wasn’t and we paid dearly for the moral failings of the Founding Fathers. It is the moment that mimics Reconstruction when we could have permanently aligned institutions toward justice and we surrendered to hate. It is 1954 all over again when we could have moved with all deliberate speed and instead dragged our feet and allowed Jim Crow to kill real integration. It’s the mid 1960’s all over again when we allowed militarism to crush any chance of constructing the beloved community so eloquently articulated by Dr. King.
We only get so many chances and my fear is that Donald Sterling and his merry band of racist zealots is a sign that time may have run out.
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