We're Very Comfortable (But It's Not That Comfortable)

"We have many celebrations of the civil rights movement and its heroes, but we do very little to explain to young people why that movement was so necessary,…

...Throughout our nation, this fear of confronting the past makes it more difficult to address and remedy the ongoing existence of urban ghettos, the persistence of the black-white achievement gap, and the continued under-representation of African Americans in higher education and better-paying jobs."