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FOCUS IN SOUTH CAROLINA By Lawrence E. Harrison
All-American, Indeed
he Fourth of July is an ex
‘ cellent time to begin the
i national dialogue on race
relations. Afterall, they stem from
America’s beginning and are thor
oughly intertwined in its history.
African Americans have a unique
focus. Is an apology for slavery
enough can be one of many topics.
Then, after the discussion, what
pf the action?
i We are a land of immigrants,
voluntary and involuntary, no
denying that. If we could just leave
it at that, it would only be a dis
cussion on historical perspectives
and viewpoints; however, our hu
man conduct and effects do not
allow such scholarly pursuits. Qur
daily lives are still impacted by
the'American history of so many
'years ago. No color or creed is
immune fromit. Any real solution
of a problem starts with the ad
mission of it, in all its details. It
ghould not be any different for
gociety’s human condition. When
that condition began as less than
human, the consequences are
more than enormous, they are
lasting.
. Progress can be measured in
Eany was and from many angles.
Indeed, we do not have to be too
old to remember “Separate, But
Not Equal.” It was a time of rejoic
ing when the physical barriers
came down, just as it had been
when the last slave auction was
done and the Emancipation Proc
lamation was heard. But, both
were not the ending African-
Americans expected. We thought
the long night was over...it was
not. Too many barriers that were
not physical, too much negative
mindset remains. It is time, past
time, to deal with those.
How to deal with them is what
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the dialogue must surely be about.
That can not be done to anybody’s
well-being if we use code words to
divide and pure ignorance and
hatred in attempts to intimidate.
We should be beyond both, sadly,
we are not. If we say it is political,
it does not make it any less dis
tasteful, and maybe even danger
ous. America’s society is chang
ing, even if certain parts of it do
not want it to, or more disturbing,
can not change along with it. The
future will be of the past and
present, but it will be a future all
its own.
America’s future will be less
racially identifiable. Whether that
isa positiveor negative is an exer
cisein seeingthe glass either “half
empty or half-full.” In the end, it
won’t matter how we see it, the
glass will be as it is. If we look
around us, really look without fear
and in candor, racial identities
are not as exact as our egos and
prejudices would like. The future
will be about reality, its recogni
tion and its truth, about how we
did not acknowledge it sooner.
The preparations we make must
not only be in talk. It has to be in
making our growth industry
schools and not prisons. It has to
be economicempowerment by law
ful means. It has to be political
representation at the highest
level, and not the lowest. An apol
ogy, adialogue will not mean much
without it. There should not be
any qualifying factor in the pa
triotism of any American on any
Fourth of July; Frederick
Douglass wondered and asked
about it for African Americans
long ago. We should not have to
ask about it now, and certainly we
should not have to ask about it
July 4, 2000 and beyond. .
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