"As historian Diane McWhorter points out, the civil rights battles in King’s era weren’t simply a conflict between good and evil but actually a conflict between good and normal. In that time, racism that seems so outrageous today was in fact an understandable "way of life" practiced by average, ordinary "good" people. Dr. King focused his efforts on the moderate majority that chose to remain silent. Colleagues, we—all of us—are threats to the moderate “good” people of today. The problem we have committed to address is one that can be easily ignored by people who have the luxury, the choice to avoid facing the truths of inequity. People who accept the status quo as normal, as okay. But we, all of us here in this room, we don’t believe there is a choice. We can’t accept the normality of the system serving our kids today."
Posted on: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:43:46 +0000
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