"if people will only allow their children the freedom to mix with others and not bring up the fears that abound today we all could live in a better world"

Exactly! What kept the blacks and whites divided into those 2 worlds I spoke of back then was mainly...they just didn't mix. And the separation made people afraid of each other, and they perpetuated it, and the fear went on. Children who are given the chance to mix freely with other races and cultures soon lose that fear of the unknown "other". It dissolves in the presence of the known. Knowledge, in other words, casts out fear.