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An Apology and Reparations for Slavery? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / |
| Author: Jay Parker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2000 |
| Size: 1,885 Words, 11,345 Characters |
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In year 2000 campaign interviews and during debates in Iowa and New Hampshire, both Vice President Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley again flirted with the notion of calling for a "national dialogue on race." It sounded a bit like a broken record. The suggestion, for many of us, elicits groans. We cannot help recalling that in mid-June 1997, President Clinton launched what he said would be a "great and unprecedented conversation about race" that would "transform the problem of prejudice into the promise of unity." The would-be "conversation" became such a slanted forum for black grievances that many of its early advocates found the dialogues to be considerably less that memorable. However, in the fall of 1997 and the beginning of '98, three successive issues of the Lincoln Review Letter...
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...64, we often forget, specifically states that discrimination based on race, religion, sex, and age is to come to an end. In the year 2000, much of it has. Let's continue to move forward to a society in which individuals are judged on their personal merits, not their race or color. Let's not perpetuate division by harkening back to a society in which Americans of different races were at war. vbcrlf
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