wide open, doors unlocked and had trustworthy neighbors. It is those same cousins that recently lost close to 30,000 dollars when selling their house. The engineering firm my cousin Tony once engineered for moved, it was considered unsafe to go shopping at The Antelope Valley Mall and certainly not safe to raise children there. This once promise land for southern California is no longer that. The promises no longer exist, the dreams have faded away and so have all those hopeful investors. Ironically enough, those same people that left the San Fernando Valley in means to move to a new suburban community came right back over those hills, looking for a place to live, knowing that it was much safer to raise children with the comfort ability to raise a child in a welcomed multi racial surrounding. Concluding a strong subject such as racism and its effects might not ever come to an end due to the stubbornness and ignorance of the discriminators. We may ask our selves questions such as will it ever end? or is there something we can do? I believe that acts such as affirmative action have allowed the discriminated such as those in the Antelope Valley to gain courage in inserting themselves in the high competition school and work force. I also believe acknowledging there still is segregation in some areas of this country and educating the people closest to you will make all the difference a single individual can do. In order for us to erase the hate, we must learn to accept. Not only each other and our actions, but where we come from, how we were raised and what we have to offer. With fear ejected from our minds, we will come to accept that hate was a cover for our feelings....
