It used to be OK to be racist. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks, age 42, refused to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. Thinking about this scenario playing out on my own bus ride into work today was really difficult for me to imagine. I suppose the fact that I couldn't fathom public segragation is a good indication of how far we have come as a society in only 50 years. I do feel, however, that there is still a long way to go to reach Martin Luther King, Jr. dream of every man being judged by the content of his character and not the colour of his skin.
In todays world we still allow people to identifying themselves by race and show pride associated with that identification. When Oprah Winfrey stands up as a strong woman for change and not a strong black woman to set an example for other African Americans perhaps then we can start to realize the true dream of equality.
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