What Some of Us Simply Don’t Understand about Race in America
ecthompsonmd
March 10, 2012
It seems to me that recently I’ve been talking about race a lot. There are some people in our society who live smack dab in White suburbia. They don’t see race as an issue. They look at race as something that is a throwback from the 1950s and 1960s. They look at civil rights legislation, affirmative action and other measures as having “fixed” the race problem. The recent uproar over deceased Harvard Law professor Derek Bell is an excellent example of how some folks don’t understand, refuse to understand the depth of the race problem in the United States. Race has
