Sunday, August 25, 2013

Gov. Bobby Jindal: The end of race

50 Years after King's speech, it's time to stop caring
about skin color, the author says. | AP Photo
Scan the news on any given day in America, and you will invariably find multiple stories about race, racism, ethnicity, and race relations. We can’t seem to get enough of this topic, and correspondingly, the media appetite for all things race-related is unquenchable. ✧ Racism is one of the more tragic features of the human condition. Like greed, envy, and other sins, it has been around for thousands of years, on every continent. ✧ So here we are, in the most advanced, successful, and powerful nation in the history of the world, and yet we continue to struggle to get past the color of each other’s skin. ✧ There is no more shallow, hollow, or soulless way to think about human beings than in terms of their skin color. Read more at Politico...

(Hat tip: Kim)

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