Growing up in the suburbs of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s I was hardly aware of racial differences. I always attended integrated public schools and had black friends. Not best friends -- those came later. Then I went to college at NYU in Greenwich Village and naturally was exposed to all races and nationalities among my fellow students. It wasn't until after graduating and moving to Washington, D.C., a city so racially divided -- with actual physical quadrants pointing out the "bad neighborhoods" where much of the violent crimes occurred -- that I finally noticed we've got a problem. (Getting mugged by four black guys in a D.C. supermarket parking lot didn't help.)
Since then the situation has steadily worsened, thanks to the Democrats who get off on painting the bleakest picture possible in order to win the black vote and thus grow their power. Now they're bent on teaching even our youngest children in kindergarten that white people are BAD, black people are OPPRESSED and America is EVIL.
Here's my Race Theory: Some white people are bad, some black people are oppressed, and America is pretty great despite partisan politicians focusing on all that is evil about it. One of the most partisan of those politicians is a black man who was ELECTED PRESIDENT and served for two terms.
If those wrong-headed politicians would just shut up about it for five minutes, maybe black people would stop thinking they need to be defended and white people would stop feeling so defensive. It's worth a try. They could start by sticking a sock in Maxine Waters' big mouth.
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