WHO IS GOOD ENOUGH?

In an editorial linked below, Wm. M. King reminds us of how elusive our freedom can be. Frederick Douglass reminded his listeners that even though the Constitution had been ratified in 1788, we were no closer as a nation in 1852 to making true the enterprise that “all men are created equal.”
That of course also included women. It took many more years to accomplish these goals and yet we forget the long time and much effort that it required. So when another situation of discrimination comes along we need the reminders of the past to help us deal with the present.
As we hear of hatred in the news pertaining to new religious and national prejudice, we must all remember we are inheritors of our freedoms and therefore we can only be humbly grateful for them and be willing to be generous with what we did not earn.

http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-2887-the-myth-of-a-post-racial-america.html