Of Racism and Hate...
Of Racism and Hate... In the wake of the violence in Charlottesville this past weekend much has been posted on social media about what happened up there. One comment in particular caught my attention. One of my good friends from high school had posted a thoughtful response to Charlottesville, and that led to many, many comments and what was, by Facebook standards, a reasoned conversation in the many comments that it engendered. Even where the posters didn't agree, their comments to each other were remarkably restrained and civil. One comment caught my attention: "we do not have a racism problem in this county." I know the county of which he speaks and, unfortunately, unless the residents there have overcome original sin it, like every other county in the country, has some degree of racism. I've seen it and heard it. As a white male born in the South, there is some racism present that I would not recognize because I haven't been the target of it. We are