Personal Perspectives: Reflections on Racism

There are so many signs of our country's sickness: racism at worst and general disease at best. Simultaneously, there are marvelous examples of growth - change from the old patterns of "petty-apartheid." For one who knew the pain and humiliation of being told, "We don't have toilet facilities for y'all," and whose father feared to tell a white salesperson the radio in his new car didn't work, I cannot deny the growth and change.