Walking Through Racism

ON AUGUST 4, which, if memory serves, is the date on which Lincoln issued one of his several emancipation proclamations, a group of civil rights marches left Kenosha, Wisconsin, and walked seven hundred miles to Washington D.c., arriving on august 28, the fifty seventh anniversary of MLK's famous speech. Along the way, the large group, walking dozens of miles per day, was spat at,yelled at, and pelted with obscenities, cans, bottles, garbage, and food by caucasians who probably claim to be non racists,, and that All Lives Matter. Police cruised the highways just ahead of them, temporarily shutting down service stations and convenience stores, preventing the marchers from refueling and restocking. The harassment twas incessant, brutal, and lily white. It was more remindful of august, 1963, than what one might expect in august 2020. It raises the question: how much progress towards racial equality have we really made in modern America? meanwhile, at the Republican National convention, Nikki Haley, who isn't a racist and believes that all lives matter, made it perfectly clear that the Untied States of America is not a racist country. President trump made it crystal clear that the Black Lives Matter movement is a bunch of troublemakers, making trouble about nothing, made up of people who probably have never heard of George Floyd. At least now we can imagine how the USA might look had Strom Thurmond or George Wallace become president, and had the civil right movement never taken place. Then again, maybe the civil rights movement never has really happened.