Race in America

Black workers at a Tyson Food facility in Alabama are suing the company for violating their civil rights. This is their complaint:

A group of black workers is suing the world's largest poultry meat producer, accusing it of tolerating a racist workplace where African Americans were routinely abused and a "whites only" sign was pinned to the lavatory door.

...the workers allege that the lavatory was padlocked and only white workers were given a key, that workers hung a noose in one of the recreation rooms and annotated a picture of monkeys with the names of black staff. When the workers complained, they say the plant manager told them the facilities had been locked because they were "nasty, dirty [and] behaved like children".

It is incredible that in 2005 we still witness events like these in America. We just saw how the Republicans don't care about the black or the poor. Now we see that in the south segregation is still on many people's minds.

That is so sad and unfortunate. Why can't people accept one another regardless of the color of their skin? I would understand racism existing when different people are initially introduced to each other, but after centuries of co-existence?? How do you justify that? Haven't blacks proven they are equal to us yet? What kind of proof would those racists need?

I just feel bad for our children, since we will not be able to shield them from racism and bigotry for their whole lives. I hope Ray and I will do a good enough job with them to give them the tools to deal with situations like these.