Racism Alive and Well

Last week the increasingly conservative SCOTUS struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act, this week George Zimmerman was aquitted in the brutal murder of an unarmed black youth in South Florida. It is sad to see this trend, officially condoned racism, particularly at a time when cohesion between disparate groups of poor and working class people is so important. We would just say that all of us need to remember that the bigotry of some, the conservatives on the SCOTUS, and the jury in South Florida, for example, does not change the feelings of acceptance that many people, perhaps most people, hold towards their fellow Americans.