October 1, 2009
Needed: A New Civil Rights Movement
We need a new civil rights movement. I’m sure some are inclined to ask why I’d say that. We ended legal segregation in the 1960s. We have a Black president. People are far more accepting now of racial difference than they once were. We’ve ended the rigid racial categorizations that refused to see beyond Black and White. Everyone from Tiger Woods to Mariah Carey to CNN Anchor Soledad O’Brien, now wear their multiracial heritage proudly and many have welcomed these newly accepted definitions of race.
