IF ONLY it were so simple: “The civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 196s ostensibly put an end to the outrages endured by Tempie, her family, and millions of others. Gone, thanks to the Supreme Court, was the flawed concept of ‘Separate but equal.’ In its place, theoretically protected by congressional legislation, was a new day in which anyone with ability and ambition, irrespective of skin color, could succeed. “IF Only it were so simple. “The wounds were too deep, the abuses too pervasive, the burdens too daunting, the attitudes too ingrained, the institutions too entrenched to be overcome by a few Supreme Court decisions and some modest pieces of congressional legislation. “The legacy of limitless possibilities that my parents passed on to me [as a White male] was inaccessible to Tempie [a Black female], through no fault of her own or of her parents.” From “My Black Family, My White Privilege” by Michael Wenger
Posted on: Mon, 13 Oct 2014 14:09:26 +0000
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