[Halon]

It's 2015. Nobody alive anymore was a slave from the 1800's. I wasn't alive back then, but I can only imagine it's a night and day difference from them until now. Millionaires, Billionaires, CEO's, etc come in all colors now. The majority voted in a black president, twice.

Forgive but don't forget, that's how you prevent repeating past mistakes, and focus on just moving forward. I agree with Vicious's comment that the only way to truly move forward with equality is to truly treat all as being created equal. Countering racism from previous generations long ago, with an opposite form of racism today, just doesn't seem like a big picture approach if the end goal is equality.

When I lived in Yuma for 3 years, I was definitely a minority for those 3 years. It has to be like 90% Mexican there. Didn't really matter to me. When I walked into a restaurant, I just busted out some high school grade Spanish and ordered up some Carne Asada and life was good! I remember having dinner with my g/f's family, her parents didn't speak English at all. We all just spoke Spanish, ate burritos, and I understood maybe 1% of it all, was all good. My year in Japan, several months in Spain and Korea, same deal. Just go with the flow, treat everyone equally and with respect, things seem to work out. Run into a few bad apples along the way, whatever that'll always be the case, they don't represent the majority so just move on.