e experienced and learned from our past of mistreating blacks. We know now that this was wrongand see all the pain and suffering it caused, so we don't let this happen again today. The people of the past were just to ignorant to realize what the truth was. They grew up with the thought that they, the whites, were better than the blacks, and most didn't have the strength, courage or intelligence to think for themselves, and realize that the only true difference between the two was the color of theirskin. They needed a past situation they could look back on, and plainly see the discrimination in, in order to realize what atrocity they were committing. Unfortunately for them, they lost the privilege of realizing how wonderful and beneficial it is to have a diverse society, but lucky for us, we have realized it for years. Although there may still be some discriminatory practices in our world today, we just need time, time to become comfortable with our diversity and time to make us realize even more how lucky we are to be surrounded in this country by the people that give us the spice in life: the African Americans. ...
