re: Barack Obama, Ferguson, and the Evidence of Things Unsaid

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I agree, somewhat. However, you have to realize that most everyone alive today has relatives that filled their heads with stories of when the exact opposite was true in America - i.e. just being black could get you killed for looking at a white person sideways.

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Understood that things in the past were not good but the only way the past will remain in the past is if it is left there. If the grievances from the past keep being retained as wedges in the present and future, nothing will get resolved for good. I was not around and/or can't remember the worst parts of the racial divide. Many of that generation have gone to eternity. I know my heart and I would not have treated anyone poorly back then nor now but I am barraged repeatedly with the carping of how bad it was and "you white people should be ashamed" non-sense. After a while that does tend to build up a degree of animosity that would never have been there had the past been left in the past. This animosity never spills into my actions but damn it becomes frustrating to those of us who treat people right and just want to move on in life...