Amazing

So I'm driving home and I'm stopped a red light. To my left is a quiet neighborhood. Flapping proudly in the wind in the backyard of one of the houses was a confederate flag. I had been down this same route many times and never noticed it. Race is something that we tend to sweep under the rug. Yes, we have a Black president. But the blatant hatred continues. Yesterday I bought a picture book with pictures mainly from the civil rights movement. It's amazing to see pictures of people being blown away by hoses hooked up to fire hydrants. Then you have that clown calling Obama a racist when it's the other way around. There's this misconception that these problems mostly exist in the south. That's not true. It's just as bad in the north. Recently my family made a trip to Chicago and on the way there, we stopped south of Chicago. The restaurant we ate at didn't seem to have any Blacks working or eating there. Of course when we were seated, we were put almost as far from the entrance as possible. Maybe I'm blowing that out of proportion, but I look at things like that in Black and White. We all mentioned the situation amongst ourselves, but in the end it didn't matter. We were paying customers so we would get what we wanted anyway. It's just irritating. It's all the same...I get so tired of talking about race. But somebody has to do it.