Last week, there was an image floating around the Internet of a black guy breaking the color barrier at a public swimming pool. It was fresh in my head as my family and I headed off to a few days at a water park.
There, at the water park, I saw something different. It's amazing what sixty years will do. I sat by the large wave pool as my kids were in it, and I noticed something. There were blacks in the pool. There were Japanese. Whites. Arabs and Latinos. And probably others.
And instead of the feeling of us being racist as so many things on the Internet seem to make me feel these days, I actually was amazed at how far we come. I was proud of my nation instead of ashamed as it seems people want me to be. There is no doubt that there are race issues that need to be addressed in our nation, but we should look at how far we have come.
If you're like me, you're not motivated by being beat up and told that you're a racist. Instead, I find motivation to be better in seeing progress. You've come far, America. We've come far if that diverse swimming pool has anything to say.
Keep on!
can racism be stop in this our world ?
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Probably not in the world. But it can be in you and me. It wasn't in that pool that day, and in that, I found hope.
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