Re: "I think it is fitting for all of us to take a moment not only to relect on the horrors of slavery but to also to reflect on just how much of what the US iswas built by slaves.

And its way past time for America to deal with its past."

You know, after 40 years of listening to this kind of breasbeating, I'm getting real tired of it.

I think it's time for America to deal with its present! For journalists, et al, to look about them and note how many people of different races get along just fine, especially the women. I see this on the job everyday.

It's time to acknowledge that much of what the media publicize as rascism is nothing but the competitiveness (sometimes deadly) of young males, many of them full of drink or drugs.

When the youths can't tell each other apart by their skin color, they don gang T-shirts and gun down boys in the wrong color shirt. THAT's the kind of thing we need to deal with.

Get modern!