Can’t Cure a 300 Year-Old Drought by a Month of Rain

Racism is in the American DNA, a matter of societal drought that goes back a long way,

aimed at everyone in our newborn nation that wasn’t white, and some that were.

The Framers of our Constitution

made a game go of it, with their finest rhetoric.

"We hold these truths to

be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their

Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and

the Pursuit of Happiness.”

But that was a fiction that couldn't stand up to circumstance.

I guess they wrote it as an aspiration, because the fragile land they won by

force of arms from the British was built on agriculture—mostly cotton—and in

those times cotton meant slaves, sold like cattle into lifetimes of servitude.

If you find it hard to conceive of that mind-set in those

days, think of your mind-set in these days. You would bristle at

someone calling you a racist. But you (and I as well) are and have been perfectly

willing to accept that the poor and the lower rungs o…