Are You Ready for Some Hard Truths About the Birth of Our Nation? Brace Yourself @alternet

Cutting edge historians are breaking new ground to help us understand the dogged persistence of white racism.

Source: Are You Ready for Some Hard Truths About the Birth of Our Nation? Brace Yourself @alternet

Tavis Smiley on Trump

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles.
Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.
Courage breeds creativity; Cowardice represses fear and is mastered by it.
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?
Expediency ask the question, is it politic?
Vanity asks the question, is it popular?

But, conscience ask the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.”

–        –   Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Fifty years ago

Fifty years again the Ku Klux Klan dynamited a Birmingham church killing 4 little girls. Sadly the KKK is estimated to still have 5,000 to 8,000 followers. Why?