Change Has Come to America????

http://www.theroot.com/buzz/noose-found-locker-black-man-suing-nyfd-discrimination

You would think after the Jena 6 controversy that white people would have learned to think twice before running around with nooses. But in New York City, a white man took it upon himself to hang a noose on the locker of a Black man who, with others, currently has a discrimination law suit pending with the NYFD. Not the Deep South, like Jena, Louisiana but the hustling and bustling city that never sleeps, New York City. In this day and age with Black people breaking barriers on the regular basis, you would think that we as a people have reached the Promised Land that King dreamed about through love, respect for one other and appreciating the differences by accepting diversification. But why is there still so much hate and anger towards diversity?

What would those who fought, bled and even died for freedom say about us if they saw the country now? Yes things have clearly changed but the mind of the white man has not. Did they give their lives in vain?  Are we upholding their legacy and believes? Would they be able to see the progression that has been made over the span of history?

A person on the outside looking in on the American way of life would think that after seeing Obama become the first African American president, we were moving in the right direction to bring in a new way of thinking hence the term Post-Racial America. Some think that now in this so called Post-Racial America, the many struggles of racism and discrimination are over but instances like the aforementioned prove that the 'struggle' is on going and will outlast the lifetime of many of us. The remanence of the storm we call racism still dominates and create discomfort for any and everyone in it's way and beyond.

 How can we really focus on the dispelling the ideologies of racism to create a better way of life for our future? Are we that selfish and ignorant about the lives we effect to the point that we aren't concerned with the problems that will destroy the future generations to come?

Will we ever live life to the fullest without hate?