Australia set to recognise Aborigines as first people of continent

[EFerrari]

34. A few years ago I realized I was born in the second week of the Montgomery bus boycott

and that I didn't know anything about even the things that had happened during my lifetime, and I've been trying to fix that.

And just in digging around in my own experience, I've found that between the people who had blind spots on race and the people that were willing to go b*lls to the wall to obstruct integration out of insane hatred, there were many more people in between who were ready, willing and able to take economic advantage of things like red-lining. It wasn't about hatred for those people. It was about money. If discrimination could line their pockets or advance their careers, they were there. They didn't even think about approving or disapproving the status quo, it was about their bottom line. Race was just one more lever, one more variable to manipulate for them.

This is my realtor or insurance broker or loan officer or high school principal or country planning officer. These people don't have horns, they blend right in and they know exactly what they're doing today.

So, I guess although I'd like to agree with you, I don't. It isn't a small group of whackjobs. It's more like most people who "go along to get along" in a culture that is so saturated with discrimination, we don't even see a figure in the carpet because we don't even see the carpet at all. JMO.