Well, sure... There are folks, both black and white, who don't want such a discussion to occur... Some think we are beyond having to have such discorse... Other because of shame... Others for fear of facing historical truths... I mean, there are many reasons that folks don't want to "go here"...

But there are different layers of "going here"...

My own opinion is that the starting point is replacing the mythologies that have been passed down in our schools... I mean, if we can't talk about slavery and Jim Crow in terms of what it was without the revisionist sugarcoating then we can't begin the converstaion... If we can't speak of the amount of wealth and infastructure that we all enjoy that was created on the backs of black people then we're not ready to have the discussion...

This is the starting point... Okay, it may be old stuff to lots of people who have taken the time to cut thru the mythology but to way to many folks the retelling of our history isn't a "refresher course"...

Yeah, lets un-clean up the story first... We will get no where until we accept reality...

B~