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That institutional racism has tragically been a part of our national landscape during extended periods in our history is a sad, well-established fact. Yet obsessive reminders of that negative fact and blindness to the positive institutional and individual progress achieved over the years is wrong. It is, in fact, a constant disappointment and frustration to those who refuse to adopt such a negative, pessimistic view of our nation and its people.

A recent letter from Bill Livingston (Opinions of the Readers, Sept. 10, 2020) detailed the discriminatory conditions imposed on black veterans returning after WWII. All tragically true, but ancient history. In recounting those past injustices, the implication is that nothing has changed and that we must continue to atone for the crimes of those who went before us. Throughout my 30 years of Air Force service starting in 1955, I served with innumerable productive minority members, e.g. my first wing commander, one of my fellow U-2 pilots, et al. Good grief! The current USAF Chief of Staff, General Charles Q. Brown, is African-American. Times have fundamentally changed.

In the same Opinions of the Readers column cited above, William Morton Jr. mentions he just learned about white supremacy from a recently-published book which causes him to gratuitously assert that he has a better understanding of how systemic racism works and how it is still present and firmly entrenched in many peoples lives.

Once again, our anger and disgust over the wrongs of the past should not lead us to make false, damaging assertions about the present. To do so, degrades national and societal unity on the one hand, and amounts to virtue signaling on the other.

Enough with the identity politics. Lets all march together as proud Americans!

Richard G. Woodhull Jr.

Brevard

The rest is here:
Fixating On The Past Corrupts The Future - The Transylvania Times

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