Forty-three years since the Civil Rights Act which outlawed segregation passed, with a tacked on and much debated gender protection clause, America has a woman and a black man running against each other for a spot on the Democrat ticket for president. Pride and progress swell American hearts and minds. We have put both the race and gender divide behind us. Or, maybe not. It appears that while I was comfortable in my church listening to sermons about loving my fellow man no matter what his skin color, and while my parents were raising me to be colorblind, there were, and still are, black churches preaching a decidedly less gracious view of whites in the USA-- or the "US of KKK A" as Dr. Jeremiah Wright, Pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, raved from his pulpit in a Chicago church whose motto is "Unashamedly Black and Unapologetically Christian." I hesitate to discuss the issue, because I'm white. Whites, apparently, are held to a different version o...
Life is a series of snapshots meant to be recorded in words. A writer and photographer shares hers.