PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. | The United States must make greater strides towards diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). However, we must realize that America has made tremendous progress along these lines since the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement began.
Many of this columns’ readers were not alive when Martin Luther King, Jr. was the Civil Rights’ movement leader. As a teenager and young adult in the 60s, I lived on Long Island, N.Y., plus later in Bartow, Clarke and Fulton counties. These places were alike in one way. Many white people shared a general dislike of the civil rights movement and MLK, Jr. in particular.
Some people think that New York has always been progressive. However, it was segregated when I grew up there, and with racial strife. But it was not only race that caused conflict…