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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Racism is a big money industry for people like the Reverend Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jesse Jackson,  etal.  As long as they make money and people are willing to remain uneducated about the world.   The problem of racism will tend to exacerbate itself.   I do not deny that it exist and there are bad people in the world but as long as we give stage to the KKK, Nazi and the aforementioned Reverends this problem will grow.   Ignore them all because they are all too lazy to get a job and this is how they all get rich[/quote]

Racism isn't alive because of extremists, pundits, or activists.  It is alive because there are ordinary people who make decisions about who to hire, who to pull over, and who to rent to based on skin color.  And those people are not doing it to get back at Jesse Jackson or because the Klan told them to do it.

Martin Luther King Said

[quote]I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a `more convenient season.'

… I had … hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth concerning time in relation to the struggle for freedom. I have just received a letter from a white brother in Texas. He writes: `An Christians know that the colored people will receive equal rights eventually, but it is possible that you are in too great a religious hurry. It has taken Christianity almost two thousand years to accomplish what it has. The teachings of Christ take time to come to earth.‘ Such an attitude stems from a tragic misconception of time, from the strangely rational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually, time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively.[/quote]

Letter from a Birmingham Jail was a letter not about extremists but about the threat of moderates.  http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
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