The very first thing we need to do as a nation and as individual members of society is to confront our past...we need to recognize it for what it was and is and not explain away, excuse it, or justify it. Having done that, we should make a good faith effort to turn our history around so that we can see it in front of us, so that we can avoid doing what we …showed first 75 words of 1109 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1109 total…The best that can be said about these conditions is that our racial situation, however bad, is better than it was in 1967. That is pitiably small consolation but the fact of the matter is its true. “Racism is the deepest level of hurt that can be placed on a society”(Derman- Sparks, 9) yet everyday the act of discrimination is shown everyday among all people. Everyone is born racist no matter who, what, where or why.